"Tournifreak" wrote in message
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So is there really any good reason for removing lead from electronic
components and PCBs when there's all this lead being sued in the
building industry? Or is it just another piece of do-gooder
thumb-twidling buraucratic EU nonsense? (With big fines)

Interested if anyone knows the answer...

A few years ago, some scientists ran tests on the Holland and Holland
shooting ground - an area that has been peppered with lead for a couple of
centuries or so. They found that the lead had no significant effect on the
toxicity of the soil, although the amount of lead shot made recovering it an
economic proposition.

Colin Bignell