From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: R/S Battery of the Month Club
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In article <JWATERMA.93Apr14214858@jade.tufts.edu> jwaterma@jade.tufts.edu (Jason Waterman) writes:
>I talked to a friend who works for Radio Shack, and he said the deal
>with the Red Batteries were that they had too much lead in them.
>Condidering the Red Batteries had a life cycle shorter than a mayflies, 
>I think the EPA was worried about all those batteries being dumped out.

Pardon me, but why would carbon-zinc cells have any lead in them at all.
--scott

