Huge DITTO!!!!!
My 2 cents and your 2 cents.....soon we'll have...ah...mmm...a Pizza?


At 03:20 PM 8/26/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Good Day Holly!
>
>I know your email stated to respond to you directly, but I think that this is
>a good a forum as any to discuss what I feel is really unwarranted, and as Bev
>stated in his email, premature action concerning the use of lead in our
>industry.
>Don't get me wrong, I know that lead does pose a health risk when it's use is
>careless and has been allowed to contaminate the environment.
>
>I think as far as categories of industry users of lead, we seem to be taking
>the worlds problems with lead on OUR shoulders, and we're by no means the
>biggest users. That honor goes to battery makers...they use 2/3rds of the
>worlds lead. In fact, if you look where us electronics manufacturers rank as
>far as lead use goes when comparing us with other industry's, we probably
>don't rank in the top ten...there's all kinds of business that use more than
>we do, and probably not as carefull with not contaminating things as we are.
>So why do we take the heat? Why does it seem we are the only ones looking for
>alternative materials? I haven't read or heard anything about Ray-O-Vac coming
>out with an alternative battery? I hate to say it, but it seems like the
>concerns with lead in our industry has been exaggerated to mislead us...for
>what purpose I don't know.
>
>If that sounds like I'm being radical, maybe I am a little, because I really
>don't understand why our use of lead has been made to be such a big health
>concern in our industry...we're microscopic compared to other users.
>
>People point their fingers at electronics being a big contributor of lead
>hazards in our society, yet last year 25,000,000 sets of lead contaminated
>vinyl mini-blinds were imported from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and
>Mexico into the United States that are 100 times more harmful to kids than my
>jar of solder paste would ever be...and we continue to keep importing them
>too. I  honestly think there's some hidden agenda somewhere that we don't know
>about...
>
>My two cents...
>
>-Steve Gregory-
>
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