37-0205 - Prohibitions.

§ 37-0205. Prohibitions.    1.  No package or packaging component shall be offered for sale or for  promotional purposes by a manufacturer or distributor which includes  in  the package itself, or in any packaging component, inks, dyes, pigments,  adhesives,  stabilizers  or  any other additives to which lead, cadmium,  mercury or hexavalent chromium has been included as  an  element  during  manufacture  or  distribution  in excess of the concentration levels set  forth in subdivision three of this section.    2. No product shall be offered for sale or for promotional purposes by  a manufacturer or distributor  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 to  which  lead,  cadmium,  mercury or hexavalent chromium has been included as an element  during manufacture or distribution in excess of the concentration levels  set forth in subdivision three of this section.    3. The sum of the concentration levels of lead,  cadmium,  mercury  or  hexavalent  chromium present in any package or packaging component shall  not exceed the following prior to incineration:    600 parts per million by weight (0.06%), effective January 1, 1992    250 parts per million by weight (0.025%), effective January 1, 1993    100 parts per million by weight (0.01%), effective January 1, 1994.