Lead-free or Loaded?

Please explain 'known health benefits of removing lead from electronics.' specifically health benefits, not the wonders of unleaded landfills please.

Please show chronic health issue of todays automated soldering machines.

Who eats electronics parts? Who gets lead poisoning from having a lead soldered device in their control room?

"Health benefits" is a bogus distraction.

Deaths from failures of electronic equipment will continue to accumulate and be "unproven" as root causes because it is taboo to question the wisdom of the gaia worshipers.

Lead has a unique and important role to play in certain applications from an engineering point of view; it is born totally unuseable to the greenpeace bureaucrats who cannot understand avenues of toxicity, reliability, and evaluation of risk.

milo "the military knows that when reliability is important, lead solders are quite acceptable"

A rather lengthly examination of lead in electronics was issued by ITW Paktron in September of 2005, titled "ITWPaktron Lead Free Study." This examined the issue of lead in electronics and whether or not it was a significant issue in the environment. It referenced many studies over a >25 year period and none of them had shown lead in electronics to be of any concern in the noted areas of pollution. Despite all of these scientific reports to the contrary, the EU went ahead and issued its ruling, putting into motion a huge, expensive boondoggle causing untold trouble and expense in the electronics industry.

Fact: The electronics industry barely accounts for <1% of the world consumption of lead, 98% of lead is used in batteries, of which, nearly all of that is recycled. So, to use an old phrase, "Where is the beef?!!!!"

Fact: There has NEVER been a documented case of lead from electronics getting into ground water from a land fill yet.

Fact: They always use the lame excuse of "better safe than sorry", how about better ignorant than intelligent for an excuse?

Fact: Ignorance and fear are no excuse for stupid laws and regulations!

Fact: Despite the exemption of military and some other electronics, it has become nearly impossible for them to find companies who will produce electronics using the leaded solder, it is not economical for companies to set up two, separate production lines nor is it economically feasible for the military and others to pay the high overhead costs of doing it. Perhaps when we have a fatal 'accident' in space or in our defense networks, someone might wake up! The 'cure' is worse than the 'ill'.

This is not the first time bureaucrats have acted on a perceived threat with little or no scientific basis, it has happened many times in the past with many attempts failing, in this case unfortunately, they did not fail.

I am all in favor of keeping the environment as clean as possible but the use of common sense and science should be observed. Hasn't anyone noticed that lead is an element of Earth, it occurs naturally, is the next move to try and 'clean up' the Earth's entire supply of lead? Knee jerk reactions to a small minority of loud zealots should be prevented. We need to clean up the significant pollution sources, just because a particularly easy target is available is no reason to attack it. In effect, a great many billions of dollars have now been diverted to a insignificant source of pollution while many big polluters are still going merrily on their way.

There has been many failures documented because of lead-free solder, costing many billions of dollars, what more proof do these fools need to show them the error of their ways? When these failures finally cause some significants deaths, perhaps they will listen (I'm not holding my breath!).

I know, I am asking a lot, the use of common sense and intelligence from bureaucrats, the lack thereof has been documented over millennia, but we can always hope.