Newsgroup: it.sport.calcio.milan
Titolo: (ot) Attenzione - Euro

Friday November 23 10:42 AM ET
Euro Coins Could Cause Skin Disease
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011123/sc/health_eurocoins_dc_1.html
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two of the eight euro coins due to come into
circulation in January release so much nickel that people allergic to the
metal could develop hand eczema, according to a study obtained by Reuters on
Friday.
Just five minutes of contact with one-euro (88 cents) and two-euro coins
containing nickel alloy could trigger symptoms, including skin inflammation
or itching, the study by a Swedish dermatologist and British laboratory
scientist said.
Earlier studies which tested French, British and Swedish coins containing
nickel were also found to have the potential to cause nickel allergies, it
said.
Fifteen percent of all women and two to five percent of men in the
industrialized world are prone to nickel allergy.
In the study, two-euro coins were bathed for a week in a solution resembling
human sweat to imitate the effects of people handling coins.
The amount of nickel released from the euro coins was up to 30 times above a
level regarded by scientists as the concentration threshold for reactivity
to a single exposure.
``Contamination of hands with nickel was shown to occur by handling
cupro-nickel coins for five minutes,'' the study said.
Cupro-nickel is an alloy containing copper and nickel.
The study, published earlier this year in the journal Contact Dermatitis,
was written by dermatologist Carola Liden at Sweden's Karolinska Institute
and Stephen Carter of Britain's Laboratory of the Government Chemist in
Middlesex.
``Whilst ordinary consumers handle coins infrequently for short periods of
time, many shop assistants and cashiers in shops, banks and post offices
handle coins during large parts of their workday,'' it said.
Between 30 and 40 percent of nickel-sensitive people tended to develop hand
eczema, an inflammation of the skin which could lead to sick leave or change
of jobs.
EU scientists, environmentalists, dermatologists and the nickel industry
considered nickel allergy potential when the composition of the euro coins
were decided, the study said.
Coins are exempt from the EU's nickel directive, which limits the amount of
nickel in products such as jewelry or watches that come into direct contact
with the skin.
The one- and two-euro coins have a potential nickel release up to 100 times
greater than the EU directive's upper limit, the study found.
($1-1.138 Euro)

> greater
Chi č che si gratta?? :-)
Macchevvordě?.....non ho tempo di leggere e tradurre....
;)

che in 2 monete delle 8 che entreranno in circolazione tra un po, ce ne sono
2, le bimetalliche, che conterranno un'alta percentuale di un materiale che
darà probllemi a molte persone che le toccheranno.

 darà probllemi a molte persone che le toccheranno.
Mmazza oh....e nun ce potevano penà prima di farle? :-)
Mah....questa europa.....

 Mah....questa europa.....
per me č colpa di inzaghi :-)))

A.Shevchenko 7 <Sheva@@l'Ucraino.GOL

Mi sembra strano. La tecnologia che usano dovrebbe essere proprio quella
sviluppata dall'Italia per le 500 lire. E noi sono anni che le abbiamo senza
che sia successo nulla (o almeno che si sia saputo)

ma un materiale puo' essere pure lo stesso ma magari contiene una
percentuale minore(o maggiore) e meno(o+) dannosa...

> per me č colpa di inzaghi :-)))
ROTFL :-)