Let's be big kids.  In this modern age, none of us can be certain of the origin of anything we buy, all we can do is take assurances from distributors, who ALWAYS the truth, or at least their version of it.
The good news is that the ultimate customer also cannot tell where a material comes from, so there is no way to prove we are not telling the truth, if we assure the customer that nothing we supply comes from anywhere they do not want it to come from.
This is a purely self-righteous political move, and should be treated the way all such naive questions deserve... tell the customer what they want to hear.

And, do NOT quote me on this :-)

--- On Thu, 3/29/12, Blair Hogg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Blair Hogg <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [TN] Conflict Minerals
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 5:44 AM

We have been receiving requests from customers for statements thta our products do not have any content of minerals from conflict areas, e.g. Congo. Anyone else getting these? How are you handling them? 

The point behind this is apparently to avoid providing funding of aggressors through the purchase of minerals from areas in conflict. A quick glance at this makes it look even worse than RoHS, now it is not simply the materials in the components, but from where they originate. 

Blair

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