Document 65 requirements for glassware and ceramics

The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, Document 65, requires warnings to be placed on any commodity that emits carcinogenic or regenerative chemicals in California. The listed chemicals include lead and cadmium.

The court issued a new trial judgment in a recent lawsuit filed in Document 65, deciding that the defendant must remake glassware and ceramics with lead and cadmium exterior trim. Products that meet remanufacturing standards can be sold in California without the warning required by Document 65.

Products include:

• Glass and ceramics for food or beverage storage and storage

• Non-food or beverage glass and ceramics (commodity)

Exterior decoration refers to the colored graphics, design and production on the external surface of the product. Exterior trims, including designs that extend to the edge area, can only use materials that comply with lead and cadmium reproduction standards. Children's products must meet a more stringent set of reproduction standards.

For products that fail to meet the remanufacturing standards, the product shall be marked with the warning required by Document 65.

Listed below is a consensus guideline for glassware and ceramicware warning labels.

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All children's products:

Exterior finishes, including marginal areas, should only use decorative materials containing less than 0.06 lead and 0.48 cadmium.

Food / beverage products (rimmed)

Exterior finishes, including marginal areas, should only use decorative materials containing less than 0.06 lead and 0.48 cadmium.

All exterior decoration extending to the marginal area shall only use decorative materials without detectable lead or cadmium (≤ 0.02% lead, ≤ 0.08% cadmium).

Non-food / beverage products:

When performing the wipe test (National Institutes of Health Test Method No. 9100), the external decoration must have less than 1.0 μg of lead or less than 8.0 μg of cadmium. Or for exterior decoration, including marginal areas, only decorative materials containing less than 0.06 lead and 0.48 cadmium may be used. Or when performing the wipe test (National Institutes of Health Test Method No. 9100), all surface decorative parts must contain less than 4.0 μg of lead or 32.0 μg of cadmium.

California, the United States, recently tightened its Proposition 65, which was passed before 1986, causing concern among suppliers in various regions. The regulation lists more than 700 chemical substances as “known to cause cancer” or “known to cause damage to the reproductive system”, including common metals such as lead and cadmium; and requires businesses to Consumer products carry a "clear and reasonable" warning label.

According to Proposition 65, anyone involved in the business process, including retailers, importers, distributors, and overseas exporters, traders and manufacturers, must comply with relevant regulations. Citizens or environmental groups can sue on behalf of the public if the person violates the rules, and the court can fine up to $ 2,500 for each problem product sold to California consumers in the past year. If the prosecution wins, the lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of the citizen can charge back the cost of the investigation in addition to the attorney's fees, which often total up to $ 1 million or more.

Ceramic tableware is one of the targets of Proposition 65. The last major revision of Proposition 65 was in 1993. According to the franchise business of tableware, only the surface of tableware that comes in contact with food was controlled. Now the relevant provisions have been revised, and they must comply. In August 2005, the new product range covered by the regulations was approved by the court, and the colored decorative parts (including pigments and decoration) of non-food contact surfaces on the outside of glass and ceramic appliances were newly controlled.

In the case of decorative glassware, the materials used to decorate the outer "lip-lip" range (that is, the top 20 mm) can only contain up to 200 ppm of lead or 800 ppm of cadmium. Below the lip range, the external decoration of the appliance can only contain a maximum of 600 ppm of lead or 4,800 ppm of cadmium. Those who do not exceed the standard do not need to attach the warning label specified in Proposition 65. In addition, if there is no decoration on the lip area and the NIOSH 9100 wipe test on all decorative surfaces shows that the amount of lead released is less than 1 microgram and the amount of cadmium released is less than 8 micrograms, there is no need to attach a warning label

The regulations require that the concentration of lead released from the food contact surfaces of flat ceramic tableware (such as dishes) should not exceed 0.226 parts per million (0.226 ppm) according to the results of the 24-hour lead acetate solution test. Ceramic hollow tableware (such as tea cups and water cups) The concentration of lead released from internal food contact surfaces must not exceed 0.100 ppm. With regard to ceramic tableware, if according to the test results of lead acetate solution, the concentration of lead released from the food contact surface of flat ceramic tableware does not exceed 0.226ppm, and the concentration of lead released from the food contact surface of ceramic hollow tableware does not exceed 0.100ppm, and It meets the standards applicable to glassware without the need to include warnings about exterior decoration. According to the test results of ASTM C-927, the lead and cadmium released from the lip area of the product must not exceed 0.050 micrograms per milliliter and 4.00 micrograms per milliliter, respectively.

According to Proposition 65, if the content of ceramic tableware exceeds the standard, the supplier must add a warning label. For example, a consumer product containing a known carcinogenic chemical must be accompanied by a "Warning: this product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer" Warning words. If the product contains chemicals known to harm the reproductive system, then "Warning: This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause defects or other reproductive harm" must be added. (Chemicals that cause damage to the reproductive system).

Relevant companies exporting to California are reminded to conduct technical assessment and preparation as early as possible to ensure that the decorated glass and ceramic appliances meet the requirements of "Proposition 65" to avoid unnecessary losses.