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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 consumer products (RSA 149-M:64)
- Other state chemical and product-safety laws for home and kitchen goods (not yet reviewed)
Cosmetics and personal careMain sources
New Hampshire (US state): main sources stored. Not stored: other rules that may apply.
Packaged food and beveragesMain sources
New Hampshire (US state): main sources stored. Not stored: other rules that may apply.
Consumer electronics and small appliancesMain sources
New Hampshire (US state): main sources stored. Not stored: other rules that may apply.
Batteries, e-bikes and power banksMain sources
New Hampshire (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: no product may be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by its manufacturer or distributor in New Hampshire in a package whose package or packaging components (inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers or other additives) include intentionally introduced lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium (149-M:34, II); the four incidentally present in any package or packaging component may not exceed 100 ppm by weight (149-M:34, III).
Exemptions (1)
A regulated metal added to comply with federal health or safety requirements, on an exemption the commissioner grants by petition
“(b) Those packages or packaging components to which lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium have been added in the manufacturing, forming, printing, or distribution process in order to comply with health or safety requirements of federal law”
Official text, current to 12 Jun 2025. Faithful copy: Internet Archive captures (June/July 2025, id_ form) of the official RSA pages 149-M:32 to 149-M:36; gc.nh.gov and gencourt.state.nh.us answer 403 to this network.
- You offer the product in New Hampshire in a package (RSA 149-M:34, II: "No product shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by its manufacturer or distributor in the state of New Hampshire in a package"); a product sold with no packaging has nothing to comply
In force since 9 Aug 1996
Applies to products sold on or after 9 Aug 1996
149-M:34 source note: "1996, 251:2, eff. Aug. 9, 1996."
“II. No product shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by its manufacturer or distributor in the state of New Hampshire 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, any lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium which has been intentionally introduced as an element 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: no product may be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by its manufacturer or distributor in New Hampshire in a package whose package or packaging components (inks, dyes, pigments, adhesives, stabilizers or other additives) include intentionally introduced lead, cadmium, mercury or hexavalent chromium (149-M:34, II); the four incidentally present in any package or packaging component may not exceed 100 ppm by weight (149-M:34, III).
Exemptions (1)
A regulated metal added to comply with federal health or safety requirements, on an exemption the commissioner grants by petition
“(b) Those packages or packaging components to which lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium have been added in the manufacturing, forming, printing, or distribution process in order to comply with health or safety requirements of federal law”
RSA 149-M:35, I(b) (excerpt) · fetched 2026-10-27New Hampshire General Court: RSA 149-M:34(opens in a new tab) Official text, current to 12 Jun 2025. Faithful copy: Internet Archive captures (June/July 2025, id_ form) of the official RSA pages 149-M:32 to 149-M:36; gc.nh.gov and gencourt.state.nh.us answer 403 to this network.
- Applies when
- You offer the product in New Hampshire in a package (RSA 149-M:34, II: "No product shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by its manufacturer or distributor in the state of New Hampshire in a package"); a product sold with no packaging has nothing to comply
- Effective
In force since 9 Aug 1996
Applies to products sold on or after 9 Aug 1996
149-M:34 source note: "1996, 251:2, eff. Aug. 9, 1996."
- Source
“II. No product shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by its manufacturer or distributor in the state of New Hampshire 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, any lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium which has been intentionally introduced as an element during manufacturing or distribution.”
RSA 149-M:34, II · fetched 2026-10-27New Hampshire General Court: RSA 149-M:34(opens in a new tab)
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- New Hampshire RSA 149-M:64 Consumer Products; Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Use Restricted (HB 1649, Laws 2024 ch. 349; HB 167, Laws 2025 ch. 19)(opens in a new tab)New Hampshire General Court (RSA online; Internet Archive capture) · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
- New Hampshire RSA 149-M:32 to 149-M:40 (toxics reduction in packaging)(opens in a new tab)New Hampshire General Court · Statute (web page)Updates: on changeLast checked: Checked
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