In message 
<8fe3816af82d194db98d7451040bd58a05798...@mer2-excha2.echostar.com>, 
dated Thu, 10 Sep 2009, "Grasso, Charles" <[email protected]> 
writes:

>Trying to predict the *future* use of a product (i.e ? outside of its 
>intended use) opens up
>Pandoras box.

There is a difference in kind between 'future' and 'intended'. The 
manufacturer can only be responsible for 'intended use'. But that may 
well include future uses, that are not the first use made of the 
product, which the manufacturer probably won't know about, anyway.
-- 
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Things can always get better. But that's not the only option.
John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK

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