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The Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
Directive
The European Parliament passed the Restriction of the Use of Certain
Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive in 2004 to "protect human
health and the environment by restricting the use of certain hazardous
substances in new equipment" and to complement the Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment (Producer Responsibility) Regulations ("the
WEEE Regulations"). It covers the same scope of equipment as the WEEE
regulations, except that Category 8, Medical Devices, and Category 9,
Monitoring and Control Instruments, are excluded from the RoHS directive.
Products from SIGNAL RECOVERY fall under Category 9 of
the RoHS directive and so are outside the scope of the directive. We
recognize, however, that removing certain hazardous substances from our
products will be of benefit not only to the environment but also to our
customers and employees. We are therefore working towards producing
products which are fully RoHS compliant. Initially work is focussed on new
products in development, but we are also taking the opportunity when
updating existing instruments to use RoHS compliant components and
techniques wherever possible.
SIGNAL RECOVERY instruments are used in various
applications that may affect customer requirements for RoHS compliance.
Normally, our customers do not require RoHS compliant products, including
customers using our products for development or production of their end
products, as well as customers who embed one of our instruments in an end
product that is itself classified as either Category 8 or Category 9. A SIGNAL
RECOVERY product will require RoHS compliance only if a customer
sells an end product that falls within the RoHS directive's scope. If you
are one of these customers then please contact us
for further advice.
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