My take on it is that rather than appease ridiculous demands, a company
ought to look at the profit vs. risk vs. cost to consumer and decide, heck,
it ain't worth it. Case in point on the news today I heard that DPT shots
are in short supply, because two companies quit making it. They quit making
it because there were a very small number of bad reactions to it and there
were lawsuits or gov't action. Well, my kids are beyond that stage but I
sure feel sorry for the people out there whose infants are at risk for
whooping cough, diphtheria and pertussis. The only thing worse than
watching your child become seriously ill is knowing it was easily
preventable.
S on 1/4/02 7:37 AM, cherryclo...@aol.com at cherryclo...@aol.com wrote:
Hey, Ken, let's try to be realistic here!
Sure - we should try to get laws we don't like changed, but that isn't going
to happen overnight and in the meantime we have to operate within the law as
it stands.
Or are you suggesting immediate insurrection by product manufacturers?
(Outlaw manufacturers roaming the wild wild west - an interesting concept!)
The IEE's guide on EMC and Functional Safety is concerned with such legal
aspects, but is also concerned with saving lives in a world where electronic
control of safety-related functions is proliferating madly.
As my paper at the IEEE's EMC Symposium in Montreal and my recent article in
ITEM UPDATE 2001 show - at present EMC standards don't address safety
issues, and most safety standards don't address EMC-related functional
safety issues.
Regards, Keith Armstrong
In a message dated 03/01/02 17:24:42 GMT Standard Time,
ken.ja...@emccompliance.com writes:
Subj:Re: EMC-related safety issues
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Date:03/01/02 17:24:42 GMT Standard Time
From: ken.ja...@emccompliance.com (Ken Javor)
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('acar...@uk.xyratex.com'), emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
There is an inherent contradiction in this anti-profit, anti-technology
point-of-view that I cannot and will not defend. All I am saying is that
people who feel this is wrong should stand up and say so, not write guides
for how to go along with it.
