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Defining 'green'.

Publication: Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Defining 'green'.(OUR LINE)

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IN February, EU Members announced final conclusions of an eight-year risk assessment of TBBPA (Tetrabromobisphenol-A) on human health and the environment. EU experts concluded (again) that TBBPA poses no risk to people, and now confirm no risk to the environment when the chemical is used in the manufacture of PCB laminates and plastics like ABS used for electronic product housings.

This position is in line with the first EU human risk assessment, completed in May 2005 (with finding published in 2006), which reported the common laminate and plastic bromine flame-retardant (BFR) poses no human risk. The testing and data needed to reach the risk assessment's conclusions took more than eight years...

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