Hundreds poisoned

Hi,
I came across this article written in March about Doe Run in Peru - not sure
if you already have it or read it. Has a lot of very interesting things to
say that seems quite relevant in the context of things.
Elizabeth, I'm still drafting up a letter - not as straight forward as I
thought but getting there.
Regards,
Jessica Ritchie

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Forwarded FYI
by Elizabeth O'Brien, Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra J. Roseberry" <Seapoint416@...>
To: <leadnet@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 11:15 PM
Subject: [Leadnet] Emailing: 0510-01


Ref: http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0510-01.htm

Common Dreams Progressive Newswire: Latest news from America's Progressive
Community
www.commondreams.org

       FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
       MAY 10, 2006
       10:31 AM

      CONTACT: Environmental Working Group
       Bill Walker, (510) 444-0973 x301; Lauren Sucher, (202) 667-6982


       Across Generations:
       The Chemical Pollution Mothers & Daughters Share and Inherit

       SACRAMENTO, California - May 10 - The unique bond between a mother and
daughter starts in the womb and lasts a lifetime. This Mother's Day, lab
tests of mothers and their daughters show that they share another, unwanted
bond: a common body burden of industrial chemicals that can be passed down
across generations.

       Tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) of four
mothers and their daughters found that each of the test subjects' blood or
urine was contaminated with an average of 35 consumer product ingredients,
including flame retardants, plasticizers, and stain-proof coatings. These
mixtures of compounds, found in furniture, cosmetics, fabrics, and other
consumer goods, have never been tested for safety. The study is available at
www.ewg.org <http://www.ewg.org/> .

       Earlier EWG body burden testing, as well as tests by the Centers for
Disease Control and other researchers, has found these and many other
chemicals are building up in the bodies of all Americans. But these tests
produced three eye-opening findings about the pollutants that can pass
through a mother's placenta or breast milk into her daughter's body:

       ? All four daughters tested had more chemicals in common with their
mothers than with a group of 16 other women who were tested. This
underscores the long-lasting influence of the pollution passed from mother
to daughter, and their shared exposures as the child grows up.

       ? Much of the chemical burden inherited by daughters at birth will
last for decades, some for a lifetime. The daughters will likely pass on to
their children some of the very chemical molecules they inherited from their
mothers. The estimated age by which a daughter will purge 99 percent of the
inherited pollution found in this study ranges from one day for phthalate
plasticizers, to one year for mercury, to between adolescence and 60 years
for common flame retardants and stain-proofing chemicals, to 166 years for
lead.


       ? Chemicals that persist in the body were found at higher levels in
mothers than daughters, showing how chemicals can build up in the body over
a lifetime. Mothers had an average of 1.5 to 5.2 times more pollution than
their daughters for lead, methyl mercury, brominated flame retardants, and
the Teflon- and Scotchgard-related perfluorochemicals PFOA and PFOS.

       The findings were released today at a briefing at the California State
Capitol. Joining public health advocates and four of the mothers and
daughters were Senate President Pro tem Don Perata, Sen. Deborah Ortiz and
Assemblyman John Laird, authors and co-sponsor of SB 1379, a bill to
establish the nation's first state-level biomonitoring program to track
pollution in people.

       "We monitor the pollution in our air, our water, and even our fish.
It's time to start looking at the pollution in our bodies," said Perata.
"The report discussed today, which shows how chemicals can be passed from
mother to daughter, is another vital reason Californians need the
information provided by SB 1379, which would create the nation's first
statewide biomonitoring program to measure chemical contaminants in humans."

       The mothers and daughters in this study join 64 other people tested in
six EWG biomonitoring programs conducted between 2000 and 2006. In total,
EWG biomonitoring has found 455 different pollutants, pesticides, and
industrial chemicals in the bodies or cord blood of 72 different people -
including 10 newborn babies with an average of 200 chemicals in each child.

       This is a burden of pollution made even more troubling by the lack of
health studies or safeguards for the chemicals' individual or combined toxic
effects. And exposures in early life heighten concerns over health risks.

       "EPA studies show that children from birth to age two are 10 times
more sensitive to cancer-causing chemicals than adults," said Jane Houlihan,
EWG's vice president for research. "Scientists have found that chemicals'
toxic effects can be passed down for four generations, by causing permanent
genetic changes that can be inherited.
       A stew of toxic chemicals is not the legacy mothers want to hand down
to their children."

       ###

Hello everyone

I am working on a web site and I need your input to help me build a
section of it. This is not a sales presentation I just need your
input as fellow professionals dealing with the ROHS no lead problem.

I am in need of Pictures of your solder joint failures. I need also
what caused the error if you know it, if not, I can help you access
it.

I need these pictures to be only of the solder joint area with no
proprietary items shown in the picture. I need them to be non copy
written meaning that you took them, you own them, and you are
transferring ownership to me and certifying that the pictures taken
are originals and that you are licensing me to use them.


I will need information on the process you used and the type of
solder and flux chemistry you used. Also in most cases the PCB
material (Ie..FR4, IS410 ETC…)

Board plating also can help and inf. on the component finish will
help me also.

I am building a database of problems and solutions using different
solder mixtures and profiles.

This will help our community of engineers to have one more
comprehensive resource of shared knowledge.

Please send to:

Dolbowent@...

FYI - please see forwarded emails below
As you probably know, cadmium (and arsenic) are normally emitted from lead
mining and lead smelting operations.
Elizabeth O'Brien

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nsedu Obot Witherspoon" <nobot@...>
To: <cehnscience@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:04 AM
Subject: [cehnscience] Environmental Exposure To Cadmium Associated With
Increased Cancer Risk


From the OEM List - 1/18/06

Environmental Exposure To Cadmium Associated With Increased Cancer Risk

Category: Cancer/Oncology NewsArticle Date: 17 Jan 2006 - 4am (UK)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=36241
Individuals who are exposed to the metal cadmium in the environmenthave an
increased cancer risk, according to Belgian researchersreporting online
today in The Lancet Oncology. "Cadmium is aubiquitous environmental
pollutant in industrialised countries", saysauthor Dr Jan A Staessen
(University of Leuven, Belgium).
Cadmium has toxic effects and due to its slow half-life accumulates inthe
body over an individual's lifetime. The amount of cadmium that isexcreted in
a person's urine can therefore be used as a biomarker ofexposure. Exposure
occurs through contaminated food or water orinhalation of tobacco smoke or
polluted air. By use of a randompopulation sample of 994 participants from
north-east Belgium,Staessen and colleagues investigated prospectively
whetherenvironmental exposure to cadmium is associated with an increased
riskof cancer, in particular lung cancer.
They recruited participants from an area close to 3 zinc smelters(high
exposure) and compared them with a reference population thatlived in a low
exposure area. Cadmium in urine was measured from1985-89 (baseline) and
incidence of cancer in these individuals wasmeasured until June 30, 2004.
At baseline, the average concentration of cadmium was 12.3 nmol/dayfor those
from the high exposure area compared with 7.7 nmol/day forthose from the low
exposure area. During a median follow up of 17.2years, 50 fatal cancers
(including 18 lung cancers) and 20 non-fatalcancers (including 1 lung
cancer) were identified. Overall cancer riskwas significantly associated
with a doubling of the excretionconcentration of cadmium. This association
remained after accountingfor exposure to inorganic arsenic.
Dr Staessen states "Historical pollution from non-ferrous smelterscontinues
to present a serious health hazard, necessitating targetedpreventive
measures".
Joe Santangeloj.santangelo@...
= - = - = - = - = -
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470204506705459/abstra
ct?isEOP=true
Lancet Oncology Early Online Publication, 16 January 2006
DOI:10.1016/S1470-2045(06)70545-9Environmental exposure to cadmium and risk
of cancer: a prospectivepopulation-based study
Tim Nawrot a,   Michelle Plusquin a,   Janneke Hogervorst c,   Harry ARoels
d,   Hilde Celis a,   Lutgarde Thijs a,   Jaco Vangronsveld c,  Etienne Van
Hecke b   and   Jan A Staessen email address aCorresponding Author
InformationSummary
Background
Cadmium is a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, which accumulates inthe
human body such that 24-h urinary excretion is a biomarker oflifetime
exposure. We aimed to assess the association betweenenvironmental exposure
to cadmium and cancer.
Methods
We recruited a random population sample (n=994) from an area close tothree
zinc smelters and a reference population from an area with lowexposure to
cadmium. At baseline (1985­89), we measured cadmium inurine samples obtained
over 24 h and in the soil of participants'gardens, and followed the
incidence of cancer until June 30, 2004. Weused Cox regression to calculate
hazard ratios for cancer in relationto internal (ie, urinary) and external
(ie, soil) exposure to cadmium,while adjusting for covariables.
Findings
Cadmium concentration in soil ranged from 0·8 mg/kg to 17·0 mg/kg.
Atbaseline, geometric mean urinary cadmium excretion was 12·3 nmol/dayfor
people in the high-exposure area, compared with 7·7 nmol/day forthose in the
reference (ie, low-exposure) area (p<0·0001). Duringfollow-up (median 17·2
years [range 0·6­18·8]), 50 fatal cancers and20 non-fatal cancers occurred,
of which 18 and one, respectively, werelung cancers. Overall cancer risk was
significantly associated with adoubling of 24-h cadmium excretion (hazard
ratio 1·31 [95% CI1·03­1·65], p=0·026. Population-attributable risk of lung
cancer was67% (95% CI 33­101) in the high-exposure area, compared with that
of73% (38­108) for smoking. For lung cancer, adjusted hazard ratio was1·70
(1·13­2·57, p=0·011) for a doubling of 24-h urinary cadmiumexcretion, 4·17
(1·21­14·4, p=0·024) for residence in thehigh-exposure area versus the
low-exposure area, and 1·57 (1·11­2·24,p=0·012) for a doubling of cadmium
concentration in soil.
Interpretation
Historical pollution from non-ferrous smelters continues to present aserious
health hazard, necessitating targeted preventive measures.
Affiliations
a Study Coordinating Centre, Hypertension and CardiovascularRehabilitation
Unit, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Universityof Leuven, Leuven,
Belgiumb Social and Economic Geography Section, Department of Geography
andGeology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgiumc Section of Environmental
Biology, Department of Chemistry, Biologyand Geology, University of Hasselt,
Diepenbeek, Belgiumd Toxicology and Occupational Medicine Unit, Catholic
University ofLouvain, Brussels, Belgium
Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Jan A Staessen,Study
Coordinating Centre, Laboratory of Hypertension, Department ofCardiovascular
Diseases, University of Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg,Herestraat 49 bus 702,
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Univ. Med. Ctr.   &   Univ. N. Carolina School Public
HealthGNGreenberg@...                       http://occhealthnews.net

I have my site that I have built and I need comments or stories such as
what I am reading here. It is for my ROHS Company but I would like to
get more articles written from the front lines, people who are actually
working in trying to work with ROHS. I have seen to many info sites and
I am trying to get the actual stories or what the actual world out
there is facing and no some sort of sales junk. ROHS is a pain for sure
and I want to try and get the real perspective out there on my site.

If you can please go to

www.atotalgps.com and on the lower left hand side there is an area for
news articles and papers. Just submit yours there.

This will help thanks

Mike

Hello,

The moderator of the LPSCe-goup group has changed the group's name.
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If you have links which point to this group or an address book entry
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