Massachusetts Bans Children's Jewelry
with Dangerous Levels of Lead
The Department of Public Health (DPH)
of the state of Massachusetts announced new regulations banning the manufacture,
transport or sale of children's jewelry containing dangerous levels of
lead. Under the new regulations, the sale of children's leaded jewelry
would be banned in all venues in Massachusetts, including Internet and
catalogue sales. The regulations will go into effect on June 13, 2008
to give industry time to come into compliance and to allow for a 30-day
comment period on a guidance document outlining laboratory testing methods
and compliance requirements.
The new regulations will define children's
leaded jewelry as jewelry marketed to or intended for use by children
under 14 years of age, and:
- contains a concentration of lead
that is either more than 600 ppm total lead content as determined by
the US screening test for total lead analysis or similar methods subject
to the approval of DPH; or
- would expose a child to greater
than 15 ug (micrograms) of lead per day over a chronic exposure period.
The regulation will apply to children's
leaded jewelry manufactured, shipped or sold at retail or wholesale, indoors
or outdoors, over the Internet or through catalogues. This includes, but
not limited to:
1. jewelry sold in vending machines,
toy stores or toy displays, toy departments or toy sections; or
2. jewelry that may use images or
otherwise be designed or packaged to be especially attractive to children.
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