Gary Nevison, director of legislation and environmental affairs for Newark and Farnell, is sharply critical of a ruling to delete a ROHS exemption for Decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE), a popular flame retardant used in certain types of plastic used in connectors, enclosures, wiring, and other electronic equipment.
The timetable is a tad, shall we say, aggressive:
The exemption is scheduled to end on June 30th, and Nevison argues on EDN's Critical Links blog that few manufacturers will be to meet this tight deadline:
Maybe when monkeys fly.
"This will be a significant issue for component suppliers as some of their customers will no longer accept plastics with DecaBDE, due to the timescale from buying parts to putting finished products on the market. It will also be a significant problem for manufacturers who have stocks of parts containing DecaBDE that cannot be used in ROHS compliant equipment that is put onto the EU market from July 1, 2008."
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