Code of Maine Rules
06 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
096 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - GENERAL
Chapter 80 - REDUCTION OF TOXICS IN PACKAGING
Section 096-80-3 - Prohibition of Sale of Packages Containing Heavy Metals
Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024
A. Prohibition of sale of packaging. A manufacturer, supplier or distributor may not offer for sale or for promotional purposes a package or packaging component that includes inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers, or any other additives to which any lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium has been intentionally introduced during manufacturing or distribution. This prohibition does not apply to the incidental presence of any of these elements.
B. Prohibition of sale of product in packaging. A manufacturer or distributor may not offer for sale or for promotional purposes any product in a package that includes, in the package itself or any packaging components, inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers or any other additives to which any lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium has been intentionally introduced during manufacturing or distribution. This prohibition does not apply to the incidental presence of any of these elements.
C. Concentration levels. The sum of the concentration levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chromium that are incidentally present in any package or packaging component including the inks or adhesives affixed to such packaging or packaging component, may not exceed 100 parts per million by weight or 0.01%.
D. Substitute materials. No material used to replace lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium in a package or packaging component may be used in a quantity or manner that creates a hazard as great or greater than the hazard created by the lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium.
