> The ban is on selling products which contain lead. However, there are
> exemptions to this for some specific categories of items which need to
> use lead (for example, as Russell pointed out, lead-acid batteries,
> but also aerospace and military soldering). If your equipment must
> handle special vibration situations, you MAY fall into an exempt
> category, but you would need someone more knowledgeable than me to
> answer that.

I believe that an exemption exists for fine pitch TQFP type components (ini=
tiated by Swatch after they had major problems with watches). The result is=
 that anything below a certain lead pitch falls into the exemption AIUI.


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