[Doug Zielke]

Thom is on target with his post.

A local plater I use on a regular basis told me the same.
They used to do a lot of actual Cadmium plating. Then environmental and other gov't regs made it too costly to continue using Cd.
It's deadly *****.
The last batch of parts I had done there for a m/c restoration, was zinc with a dye, as previously mentioned. They call it "Yellow Cad", but there is no Cd content at all.