Farnell InOne warns of RoHS lottery

"Farnell InOne, international distributor of electronic and industrial components, has issued a warning, at the launch of its new catalogue of RoHS compliant products, alerting the electronics industry to possible mayhem if distributors don't take the lead in issuing new part numbers for compliant stock. Farnell InOne believes that this is the only way to ensure compliant and non-compliant parts can be identified easily and properly segregated. The company urges design engineers to avoid the part number lottery by using distributors, such as Farnell InOne, that are changing part numbers and clearly segregating compliant and non-compliant stock." Source: ferret.com.au