Re: [VFB] Need info ASAP...

[mark romero]

I've been seeing these warnings on the bobbin packaging for a couple years 
now. I'll be dead before that can get me. LMAO, mark.....i wash my hands 
before, during and after i tye.

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Subject: Re: [VFB] Need info ASAP...
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:40:54 GMT
Hi Nick,
  While I can't say for sure that I know what exactly is in the bobbin, I 
can say that as a Teratologist (Birth defect guy) both by training and by 
employment, California has the strictest teratogen (bad agent) policy in 
the US, if not the world.  Furthermore, I can also say that it is *likely* 
a heavy metal which *normally* would not cause problems unless you suck on 
the bobbin or somehow ingest a substancial portion of the thing.  Again, 
without a MSDS form, I wouldn't know for sure, but I can say that an 
*educated guess* is that they wouldn't make it if it was *that* harmful.  I 
would say, however, that you don't want to be sucking on the stuff, and 
that it wouldn't hurt to wash your hands after you use it.  I doubt that it 
would jump off of the bobbin and attack you... though stranger things have 
happened ;)
  Again, I can't say for sure, but it sounds like that's what it is, like 
a lead- or magnesium- based metal.  Just for comparison, there was 
lead-based paint about 20 years ago that didn't hurt people unless they ate 
it.  So I'd *guess* you're safe so long as you don't eat or lick it.  Just 
my 2 cents...
Hope that helps more than it hurts, and tight wraps,
Pete

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