Hi Genny, NIST-John, IPC LF Listservers, Most of these items are coming from a combination of sources. The Japaneese, Far-East, has it's list based on it's culture of ultra high cleanliness (which is kind of bad for the average citizen per some dissident (out of the norm) Japaneese, FEAsia biology profs) and others (companies) that are making their lists based on long past knowledge. One of the advantages of the parallel work that NIST-John, IPC, a few others who are on these committees will yield is a paring down of these company requested lists over time. For Now, until we have a definitive international source you have to yield to your customer's whims, slighly directing them to international work when you think your customer will be happy, happy. Yours in Engineering, Dave YiEngr, MA/NY DDave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Leadfee Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Leadfree To temporarily stop/(start) delivery of Leadree for vacation breaks send: SET Leadfree NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------