Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 6024.301 - Toxic packaging prohibited(a) Sale of package or component.--As soon as feasible but not later than two years from the effective date of this act, no package or packaging component shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by its manufacturer or distributor in this Commonwealth which includes, in the package itself or in any packaging component, inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers or any other additives containing any lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium which has been intentionally introduced as an element during manufacturing or distribution, as opposed to the incidental presence of any of these elements.(b) Sale of product.--As soon as feasible but not later than two years from the effective date of this act, no product shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by its manufacturer or distributor in this Commonwealth in a package which includes, in the package itself or in any of its packaging components, inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers or any other additives containing any lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium which has been intentionally introduced as an element during manufacturing or distribution, as opposed to the incidental presence of any of these elements.(c) Steel strapping.--For the purposes of this section, the use of lead in the process of manufacturing steel strapping shall not be considered intentional introduction.(d) Schedule of limit on concentration levels.--The sum of concentration levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium present in any package or packaging component shall not exceed the following: (1) Six hundred parts per million by weight (0.06%) effective two years after adoption of this act.(2) Two hundred fifty parts per million by weight (0.025%) effective three years after adoption of this act.(3) One hundred parts per million by weight (0.01%) four years after adoption of this act.1994, Dec. 7, P.L. 797, No. 112, § 301, effective in 60 days.