On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:33 PM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > I recommend never using that household oven for food again, because we > have no clear idea what poisons might be ingested, or what effects > they might have. >
James raises an important safety issue. In spite of OLPC's careful attention to "green design", electronics manuafacturing (or re-working) certainly involves a some level of exposure to toxic materials. With heating there are potentially toxic metal vapors or volatile organic components from the plastics (particularly halogenated organic molecules) that could present a food safety risk. If you find yourself unable to take his advice to dedicate that oven to non-food use, I would at least check to see if it has an "oven cleaning" cycle of prolonged high heat and I would do this in a well-ventialted work environment. cjl _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
