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- > >################################################################ >TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c >################################################################ >To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: >To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> >To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet >################################################################ >Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. >For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 >################################################################ > > ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################