A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, leaked from light fixtures and got them sick.

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          1 year ago

          The article talks about PCBs, by which they mean polychlorinated biphenyls, that leak out.

          A much more common meaning for the same acronym is Printed Circuit Bords, which are these green/blue/black/red (rarely other colors) boards that e.g. hold most computer components and connect them to each other. Pretty much anything that’s called a board in a computer and other electronic devices is a PCB.

          PCBs don’t melt, so if your PC is leaking PCBs (as in Printed Circuit Boards) something must have seriously gone wrong.

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            1 year ago

            Since LEDs also have PCBs I thought there was something about replacing light fixtures with computers was the punch line.

            “When LEDs can melt their PCBs things have gone terribly wrong” would a least match the article.