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Cadmium plating HAS NOT been banned. If it was airplanes would disappear tomorrow! Cadmium plating allows steel (like blind rivets) to be in contact with aluminum without galvanic corrosion occurring in the presences of water or other electrolytes.
While cadmium build up in your body is toxic, the cadmium on fasteners are only an issue to the airplane manufacturer and mechanics. Typically, cadmium does not become airborne and stays where bonded with the steel so passengers are not effected.
Since Cadmium is nearly irreplaceable due to its properties don't expect it to be banned anytime soon. Especially in the military industry. Once aircraft construction moves to being entirely carbon fiber based, cadmium should disappear from the aircraft industry.
That said, carbon fiber, when pulverized from vibration in an aircraft, is far more destructive to your body over the short term than cadmium. The damage from carbon fiber dust in irreversible. The effects are much line the 9/11 rescuers illness only more acute. Unlike cadmium, carbon fiber dust IS airborne and lingers for extended periods of time making it an insidious danger, especially for passengers riding in aging aircraft.
So, choose your poison!
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