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ClaraDB gives a verdict only for PFAS state laws for cookware and bakeware, California Proposition 65 consumer-product warning check for BPA, BPS, formaldehyde, styrene, antimony trioxide, vinyl acetate, lead and cadmium, California Proposition 65 warning check for candles and ceramicware (lead, cadmium, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, benzene, naphthalene, carbon monoxide, benzo[a]pyrene), US packaging EPR producer size thresholds (California, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington) for a brand-owning manufacturer, US lead in children's products and furniture (lead paint and total lead content), US lead in toys and child care articles (lead paint and total lead content), US lead in children's products (other) and bags (lead paint and total lead content), US phthalates in children's toys and child care articles (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DINP, DIBP, DPENP, DHEXP, DCHP) and US children's product certificate and tracking label for children's tableware (AI-checked, quotes verified word for word). Every other answer shows the laws and quotes found without saying whether they apply. Not checked: Consumer electronics (FCC equipment authorization, 47 CFR Parts 2 and 15, energy rules). What ClaraDB has checked
Home and kitchen goodsMain sourcesfrom 1 Jan 20251 area read · 1 not read yet
- PFAS in products (38 MRSA 1614)
- DEP Chapter 90 currently-unavoidable-use notifications (condition not expressible yet)
Cosmetics and personal careMain sourcesfrom 1 Jan 20251 area read · 1 not read yet
- PFAS in products including cosmetics (38 MRSA 1614, stored)
- DEP Chapter 90 unavoidable-use notices
Packaged food and beveragesMain sources
Maine (US state): main sources stored. Not stored: other rules that may apply.
Consumer electronics and small appliancesMain sources
Maine (US state): main sources stored. Not stored: other rules that may apply.
Batteries, e-bikes and power banksMain sources
Maine (US state): main sources stored. Not stored: other rules that may apply.
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The product's package and packaging components have no intentionally introduced lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium, and the four together are at most 100 ppm
Must meet the conditions of Toxics in packaging: a manufacturer or distributor may not offer for sale or for promotional purposes in Maine any product in a package whose package or packaging components (inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers, coatings or other additives) have intentionally introduced lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium (1733(2)); the four together in any package or packaging component may not exceed 100 ppm by weight from April 1, 1994 (1733(3)(C)).
Exemptions (1)
A regulated metal added to comply with state or federal health or safety requirements, on an exemption the department grants by petition
“The package or packaging component contains lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium added in the manufacturing, forming, printing or distribution process in order to comply with health or safety requirements of state or federal law.”
Official text, current to 1 Oct 2025. Maine Revised Statutes section pages as published by the Revisor (current text).
- You offer the product in Maine in a package (32 M.R.S. 1733(2): "any product in a package"); a product sold with no packaging has nothing to comply
In force since 1 Apr 1992
Applies to products sold on or after 1 Apr 1992
1733(3): 600 ppm effective April 1, 1992; 250 ppm April 1, 1993; 100 ppm April 1, 1994.
“A manufacturer or distributor may not offer for sale or for promotional purposes in the State any product in a package that includes, in the package itself or any packaging components, inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers, coatings or any other additives to which any lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium has been intentionally introduced during manufacturing or distribution.”
- Conformity
The product's package and packaging components have no intentionally introduced lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium, and the four together are at most 100 ppm
Must meet the conditions of Toxics in packaging: a manufacturer or distributor may not offer for sale or for promotional purposes in Maine any product in a package whose package or packaging components (inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers, coatings or other additives) have intentionally introduced lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium (1733(2)); the four together in any package or packaging component may not exceed 100 ppm by weight from April 1, 1994 (1733(3)(C)).
Exemptions (1)
A regulated metal added to comply with state or federal health or safety requirements, on an exemption the department grants by petition
“The package or packaging component contains lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium added in the manufacturing, forming, printing or distribution process in order to comply with health or safety requirements of state or federal law.”
32 M.R.S. 1734(2)(A) · fetched 2026-10-27Maine Legislature, Office of the Revisor of Statutes: 32 M.R.S. 1733(opens in a new tab) Official text, current to 1 Oct 2025. Maine Revised Statutes section pages as published by the Revisor (current text).
- Applies when
- You offer the product in Maine in a package (32 M.R.S. 1733(2): "any product in a package"); a product sold with no packaging has nothing to comply
- Effective
In force since 1 Apr 1992
Applies to products sold on or after 1 Apr 1992
1733(3): 600 ppm effective April 1, 1992; 250 ppm April 1, 1993; 100 ppm April 1, 1994.
- Source
“A manufacturer or distributor may not offer for sale or for promotional purposes in the State any product in a package that includes, in the package itself or any packaging components, inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers, coatings or any other additives to which any lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium has been intentionally introduced during manufacturing or distribution.”
32 M.R.S. 1733(2) · fetched 2026-10-27Maine Legislature, Office of the Revisor of Statutes: 32 M.R.S. 1733(opens in a new tab)
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Sources
Sources
Where the rules come from, and when we last checked each source.
- Maine Revised Statutes Title 11, 2-316 (exclusion or modification of warranties; (5) consumer goods)(opens in a new tab)Maine Revisor of Statutes · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
- Maine Revised Statutes Title 32, chapter 26-A, 1731 to 1740 (toxics in packaging)(opens in a new tab)Maine Legislature, Office of the Revisor of Statutes · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
- Maine Revised Statutes Title 38, 1609 (restrictions on sale and distribution of brominated flame retardants)(opens in a new tab)Maine Legislature (Office of the Revisor of Statutes) · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
- Maine 38 MRSA 1614 (PFAS in consumer products)(opens in a new tab)Maine Legislature · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked · 2 versions kept
- Maine Revised Statutes Title 38, 1617 (Battery stewardship program)(opens in a new tab)Maine Revisor of Statutes · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
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- Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 chapter 16-D (toxic chemicals in children's products, sections 1691-1699-B)(opens in a new tab)Maine Legislature (Revisor of Statutes) · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
- Maine Revised Statutes Title 38, section 2146, Stewardship program for packaging (packaging extended producer responsibility)(opens in a new tab)Maine Revisor of Statutes · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
- Maine Revised Statutes Title 38, 2166 (Rechargeable consumer products)(opens in a new tab)Maine Revisor of Statutes · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
- Maine DEP Chapter 90 (as amended, filing 2025-191, effective 2025-10-07), PFAS in products(opens in a new tab)Maine Department of Environmental Protection · Regulation (Word)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked · 2 versions kept
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