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Product Stewardship

Materials - Reduction of Hazardous Substances

RoHS Information

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Cisco's EU RoHS Position Statement

Cisco Position Statement on China Management Methods for Controlling Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products

Material Use

Cisco's Product Stewardship program includes policies and procedures for  hazardous materials that are either restricted by global product-related environmental laws, regulations, or by our customers. Cisco is actively working with engineers, suppliers, and industry peers to reduce the concentration and quantity of hazardous substances in our products. The key objectives of our program are to:

  • Reduce the number and quantity of hazardous substances (such as lead solder in networking equipment, which is currently exempted from the European Union Restriction RoHS  Directive) while ensuring Cisco's high product quality and reliability standards continue to be met. This will be achieved through the development and deployment of Pb-free solder qualification guidelines for components, interconnects, and PCB reliability. Cisco will continue to work with industry consortia to define common qualification criteria.

  • Comply with product-related environmental laws and regulations restricting the use of certain hazardous substances worldwide.

Specific substances of concern and regulation include the 'RoHS' substances Lead (Pb), Mercury (Hg), Cadmium (Cd), hexalvalent Chromium (Cr+6), Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and Polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDE), which are restricted from use in products shipped into the EU/EEA and Switzerland as of July 1st, 2006.