> if you touch it and get sick, no doctor will know exactly what compounds were in it to make you sick, and therefore how to cure you. If that was a real probl

> if you touch it and get sick, no doctor will know exactly what compounds were in it to make you sick, and therefore how to cure you. If that was a real problem, people would die a lot more often than they do, just from touching random things in the world! No, the capacitor organic electrolytics are things which are not really very bad (mostly glycol-y things and organic acid-y things, I think?) but which are best washed off your hands. That's all. There aren't any really nasty things in them, fortunately (and I have read enough RoHS/REACH/Prop65 crap to be confident of that, sadly).