If true and if this condition is a contributor to early component demise, then one would have hoped that AMK would have done a better job of evaluating the long term effects of using this type of packaging on the contents inside under real world conditions.

At this point, however, I am not convinced that the packaging is a problem, either with or without added desiccant, without learning more about the inherent quality, reliability, and life expectancy of the Spark-Lite.