Lead found in brass horn mouthpieces
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My response was not pointed at anyone specifically, rather it was intended to encourage reflection. If we look in the mirror, we realize that we „expect“ a lot from our tax dollars but when it comes to accountability, we are very selective. We have options for replacing brass with lead. The factoid that there are „toxic“ plastics is just another distraction from the issue. To be honest, not much intelligence is required from politicians or manufacturers to solve this issue. Less factoids, more common sense.
@Pinstriper said in Lead found in brass horn mouthpieces:
@ROWUK said in Lead found in brass horn mouthpieces:
This is all fine and good, but is the excuse - other things are bad for you too the right argument? Even if a mouthpiece is plated, is what we "think" or "assume" even asked for. We have a lot of Americans believing anything that they want to - from guns to global warming. It is hard to find enough facts outside of the emotion and populist BS being spread thick.
California did not dream lead poisoning up. They announced levels for legislation long before the laws took effect. That is an OK process in my book. It is also what I expect from a reasonable functional government. Don't clobber overnight, give the industries time to adjust. If they sleep on this, goodbye - or move out of state and don't sell in California. Make the Californians travel to Tijuana if they disagree with the policy.
I was merely offering a counterpoint to the view that plastic was presumed to be safe. It depends on the plastic.
Whether a particular political body ignores the science and "finds" something to be so, that may not be, is its own phenomenon. As far as reasonable sounding regulation goes, anyone in the environmental sciences or compliance field knows all too well that in order to be in compliance with one standard, you have to violate another, and so you decide which fine to pay.
Not all plastic is safe. Not all brass is toxic.
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@Niner said in Lead found in brass horn mouthpieces:
@Dr-GO I spent ten years of my life as a factory rep for a mattress company. You don't know the half of it. When hybrid water beds came out nobody did any testing to see if anybody could drown in one. Thankfully they went out of style before a study could be done.
Isn't the water enclosed in a vinyl bag? How does one drown on that? I'm sincerely curious as to what you mean.
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@Kehaulani said in Lead found in brass horn mouthpieces:
@Niner said in Lead found in brass horn mouthpieces:
@Dr-GO I spent ten years of my life as a factory rep for a mattress company. You don't know the half of it. When hybrid water beds came out nobody did any testing to see if anybody could drown in one. Thankfully they went out of style before a study could be done.
Isn't the water enclosed in a vinyl bag? How does one drown on that? I'm sincerely curious as to what you mean.
I was being facetious as a response to Dr-Go making an equally facetious remark. The hybrid water bed looked just like a regular mattress and box spring. The mattress had a zipper on the side. You unzipped to get to a plastic covered foam basin the walls of which were as high as the normal mattress wall. The basin wall was a special foam covered soft plastic. inside the basin was a flat special made removable heating pad and on top of it was a large unattached plastic bladder that would be filled with water and some various chemical additives to reduce stuff growing in the water. If the bag should be punctured the idea of the basin it sat in was to catch the water and not pour onto the floor. Conceivably, if the bag of water was punctured the weight of a body could depress the cover enough to .....well you get the picture of something very remotely likely. The tension of the mattress surface would probably keep anyone from drowning...unless they slept face down maybe.
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Thanks, Niner.
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