Scott, I see two issues with your idea - one technical and one more public-relations.
The intent of the limit is to allow for impurities in the production of the materials. I suppose you can intentionally add the restricted substances as long as you don't exceed the limits but I can't imagine that a 1000ppm (0.1%) maximum concentration will be either beneficial or easy to control. (Note Cd = 100ppm or 0.01%) Caveat Emptor: Intentionally adding the restricted substances within the limit will, IMO, be perfectly legal however your company may get some unwanted publicity since you may be perceived as using a loophole to introduce restricted substances into the EU. Your competition will be well within their rights to highlight that to your customers. ...Marko From: Scott Xe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] Limit for RoHS Directive As far as I remember, the original RoHS Directive did not have any limit for each restricted substance and the limited was introduced by the amending directive thereafter. Did anyone remind me where I can find out the reasons for adding the limit? I am unsure if the added limit does not mean you can use small amount of restricted substance but due to impurity in mass production of consumer products. Thanks, Scott - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.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 <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]> Important : This message is intended only for the recipient(s) identified above by the originator or forwarder of this message and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or legally privileged. If you have any reason to believe or suspect that this message may have come to you in error, please notify the originator of this message of your receipt of it, refrain from sharing this message with anyone else, delete it from each computer or server on which it is stored (without copying it or printing it out) and take no other action based on its content. Thank you. - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.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 <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
