Ken, > For those of you who live in California, or who have ever traveled > there, just how many health hazards are ?known to the State of > California? ? And what is the rate-of-increase of such postings? One > would come to the conclusion that either the state of California is > much smarter than the rest of the forty-nine states, or that CA is a > very unhealthy place to live.
The most recent listing that I can find of "Chemicals Known to the State to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity", under California Proposition 65, is dated March 28, 2008, and is at http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/files/032108list.pdf This list is 18 pages long.... I have read that one of the criteria for being put on the list is that the chemical could shorten the life of one person in 100,000 by one year. I feel that their runaway, "toxic" legislation is a major contributor to "CA is a very unhealthy place to live". I frequently refer to California as "EU West" when discussing lead-free electronics with people. If you can find it, I suggest reading H. L. "Bill" Richardson's book "What Makes You Think We Read the Bills?". Ottawa, IL: Caroline House Books, 1978. He was a California legislator. I am in the process of printing out well over 100 Ph. D. and Master's theses that I recently found on lead-free electronics in the Proquest database. My bibliography on lead-free electronics, the RoHS and WEEE Directives, and the like is now 800 pages long, at http://www.dbicorporation.com/rohsbib.htm http://www.dbicorporation.com/rohswant.htm lists my major sources of material, and has the references that I haven't had time to double-check and put into rohsbib.htm yet. Since December 2004 I have collected 235 books, 100+ Ph. D. and Master's theses, and 11,800+ reports/papers/magazine articles/web pages on these subjects. Thanks! John Barnes KS4GL, PE, NCE, NCT, ESDC Eng, ESDC Tech, PSE, SM IEEE author of Robust Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes I and II dBi Corporation http://www.dbicorporation.com/ - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
