The use of lead-free solders and components has provided immediate health benefits to electronics industry workers in prototype and manufacturing operations.
The miniatures were largely cast in lead until public safety concerns, originally raised in 1993, influenced the gaming industry to cast lead-free miniatures.
These banned products are different from lead-free cosmetics that use the term kohl only to describe its shade/color, rather than its actual ingredients.
For paste solders, bismuth/tin/silver had the lowest impact scores among the lead-free alternatives in every category except non-renewable resource consumption.
