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Originally Posted by osidak
and if you pay attention to the boxes that the lights come in about 90% of the warn of lead content
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That's nothing new. There has been (and continues to be) Pb in electronics, Christmas lights included. They lights are no worse or less safe then the ones that you happily used 5, 10 or 20 years ago. You're just now aware of the lead. There is a major industry wide initiative ongoing to remove lead from everything. For example, most semiconductor packaging, and cell phones have little if any lead in them. Mil-Aero is still hanging on with lead, and car battaries. Given that car batteries contain more lead them almost all of the rest of the car's electronics combined, worrying about a little bit of lead in Christmas lights is silly. I bet you within a few years even the lights will be Pb-Free. One of the semiconductor packaging factories that I work with is only a couple of years old and located in China, and the government regulations forbid them to use Pb or non-RoHS materials.
Getting yourself tied up over the Christmas lights from China having Pb in them is really silly.