I like to think that I keep up the current news and trends, but just sometimes I come across something that I'm sure I should have noticed.

This week, that was the RoHS Compliance Program. The RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) directive comes from the European Union and, to quite the site:

“Member States shall ensure that, from 1 July 2006, new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market does not contain lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE).”