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[PSUs]| Thursday 22nd June 2006 |
EU regs force Apple to pull products
11:32AM, Thursday 22nd June 2006
Apple will stop European sales of several products at the end of this week in order to comply with the EU's Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) directive, AppleInsider reports.
The website says that the iSight, AirPort Base Station With Modem, AirPort Base Station Power Over Ethernet and Antenna, iPod shuffle External Battery Pack and the eMac will be discontinued. All are said to contain banned substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium and brominated flame retardants.
We have asked Apple to confirm whether these products will be discontinued. On the Environment-Materials page on its website, the company notes that due to its 'precautionary approach to substances' it will be will be fully RoHS compliant by 1 July 2006.
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