36 environmental organizations suspected of contamination revealed ipod

 36 domestic non-governmental environmental organizations, co-sponsored a challenge to Apple, that Apple equipment parts supply factories using toxic chemical solvent hexane, called for Apple to face regulation of the supply chain vulnerabilities.


2010   4 months, the Public Environmental Research Center, 36 environmental groups launched a heavy metal pollution for the electronics industry research, they are to 29 world-renowned electronics companies to supply chain factory pollution and occupational health risks coping accident was questioned. Up to now, 28 enterprises were varying degrees of recovery, including HP, Samsung, Toshiba, Sharp, etc., but there was silence Apple take a comprehensive approach, and not to disclose supply chain information refused to respond positively. It is understood that the use of ethyl alcohol production process, wipe the touch screen requires ten seconds of time of volatile and toxic chemical solvents with hexane, evaporation, is only two seconds, environmentalists, in this study found that non-Apple response to attitude, they may be related to illegal use of the n-hexane.