Europe’s Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive identifies six hazardous substances and their maximum permissible levels within electrical and electronic equipment. RoHS imposes upon producers of such goods responsibility for knowing whether their finished products contain these substances and whether the contents are within the regulatory limits.
Once the threats of criminal and financial consequences for noncompliance were introduced into the equation a “better safe than sorry” response became prevalent up and down the supply chain. We trust, but we must verify. The inevitable outcome was a tremendous increase in product testing.
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