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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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Pay the packaging stewardship organization for the product's packaging and report its packaging by type, once Maine's stewardship program contract is in effect
Registration required
Packaging EPR (stewardship program): a producer makes annual payments to the stewardship organization based on the net amount of each type of packaging material sold, offered for sale or distributed for sale in or into Maine (2146(6)), reports that amount annually (2146(6)), and beginning one calendar year after the effective date of the department's contract with the stewardship organization may not sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale in or into Maine a product in packaging material for which it has not complied (2146(7)(A)).
Exemptions (2)
A producer with less than $2,000,000 total gross revenue in the prior calendar year is exempt
“The producer realized less than $2,000,000 in total gross revenue during the prior calendar year”
A producer that put less than one ton of packaging material into Maine in the prior calendar year is exempt
“The producer sold, offered for sale or distributed for sale in or into the State during the prior calendar year products contained, protected, delivered, presented or distributed in or using less than one ton of packaging material in total”
The start date is not stated in the text (date unknown).
Official text, current to 5 Oct 2026. Maine Revisor of Statutes section page, text extracted 10/05/2026 (includes PL 2025, c. 383).
- You are its producer under 38 M.R.S. 2146(1)(O) (for a product sold at a physical retail location in Maine: the person that manufactured the product under its own brand; if none, the licensee; if none, the brand owner; if none in the United States, the importer of record; for e-commerce shipping packaging, the person that packages the item), and you are not exempt under 2146(2) (less than $2,000,000 total gross revenue in the prior calendar year, or less than one ton of packaging material into Maine)
In force, start date unknown
2146(7)(A): the sale bar begins "one calendar year following the effective date of the contract entered into by the department and the stewardship organization"; payments are due no later than 180 days after that contract date (2146(6)). The text states no calendar date, so from is the first day of the enacting session year (PL 2021, c. 455) as a stand-in (date not stated).
“beginning one calendar year following the effective date of the contract entered into by the department and the stewardship organization pursuant to subsection 3, a producer may not sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale in or into the State a product contained, protected, delivered, presented or distributed in or using packaging material for which the producer has not complied with all applicable requirements of this section.”
- Registration
Pay the packaging stewardship organization for the product's packaging and report its packaging by type, once Maine's stewardship program contract is in effect
Registration required
Packaging EPR (stewardship program): a producer makes annual payments to the stewardship organization based on the net amount of each type of packaging material sold, offered for sale or distributed for sale in or into Maine (2146(6)), reports that amount annually (2146(6)), and beginning one calendar year after the effective date of the department's contract with the stewardship organization may not sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale in or into Maine a product in packaging material for which it has not complied (2146(7)(A)).
Exemptions (2)
A producer with less than $2,000,000 total gross revenue in the prior calendar year is exempt
“The producer realized less than $2,000,000 in total gross revenue during the prior calendar year”
38 M.R.S. 2146(2)(A) (excerpt) · fetched 2026-10-27Maine Revisor of Statutes: 38 M.R.S. 2146(6), 2146(7)(A)(opens in a new tab) A producer that put less than one ton of packaging material into Maine in the prior calendar year is exempt
“The producer sold, offered for sale or distributed for sale in or into the State during the prior calendar year products contained, protected, delivered, presented or distributed in or using less than one ton of packaging material in total”
38 M.R.S. 2146(2)(B) (excerpt) · fetched 2026-10-27Maine Revisor of Statutes: 38 M.R.S. 2146(6), 2146(7)(A)(opens in a new tab) The start date is not stated in the text (date unknown).
Official text, current to 5 Oct 2026. Maine Revisor of Statutes section page, text extracted 10/05/2026 (includes PL 2025, c. 383).
- Applies when
- You are its producer under 38 M.R.S. 2146(1)(O) (for a product sold at a physical retail location in Maine: the person that manufactured the product under its own brand; if none, the licensee; if none, the brand owner; if none in the United States, the importer of record; for e-commerce shipping packaging, the person that packages the item), and you are not exempt under 2146(2) (less than $2,000,000 total gross revenue in the prior calendar year, or less than one ton of packaging material into Maine)
- Effective
In force, start date unknown
2146(7)(A): the sale bar begins "one calendar year following the effective date of the contract entered into by the department and the stewardship organization"; payments are due no later than 180 days after that contract date (2146(6)). The text states no calendar date, so from is the first day of the enacting session year (PL 2021, c. 455) as a stand-in (date not stated).
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“beginning one calendar year following the effective date of the contract entered into by the department and the stewardship organization pursuant to subsection 3, a producer may not sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale in or into the State a product contained, protected, delivered, presented or distributed in or using packaging material for which the producer has not complied with all applicable requirements of this section.”
38 M.R.S. 2146(7)(A) (excerpt) · fetched 2026-10-27Maine Revisor of Statutes: 38 M.R.S. 2146(6), 2146(7)(A)(opens in a new tab)
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- 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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