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Hello group, A vendor has quoted us some Euro and UK line cords and is ready to ship. However, before they ship us the line cords; they sent a statement to our purchasing guy. The statement reads: "CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 NOTICE: The surface contact layer of this electrical wire/cord contains lead in excess of 300 parts per million and may therefore be subject to certain additional requirements pursuant to a court-ordered Consent Judgement entered in Mateel v. Sprint et al (San Francisco Superior Court Nos. 312962 and 320342). California Employers should ensure that their employees are informed that this PVC-coated electrical wire and cord contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm." So what the heck am I supposed to do with this???? I'm trying to put this into a category such as: a. All line cords have lead in them, including the ones that we're already buying and this is just one of those anal retentive warnings that the vendor had to send us to make some lawyer happy. We should just read the warning and take note of it while we conduct business as usual. b. Not all line cords have lead in them; and we should just exclude this vendor and stick with who we have. c. All line cords have lead in them and we should start putting some warnings in all of our equipment manuals to the effect that: "The user should not rub his/her tongue all over the test equipment and/or its line cords because doing so for more than 10 hours straight may subject you to enough Lead to poison an averaged size amoeba" As you can see. I'm oonfused enough to be sarcastic. Any suggestions >from the group? Chris Maxwell Nettest Utica NY 13502 315-266-5128 This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. IEEE PSES Main Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions for use of the list server: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
