How do you know if your house is affected? Easy-to-use test kits, readily available at home improvement centers and hardware stores, let home owners and professionals to check for the presence of lead-based paints. Test any area of your house you plan to renovate. Pick a spot and carefully scrape away individual layers of paint so you can check every layer. Test kits show results with changes to the color of the test strip or swab.
Test kits get results using either one of two chemicals--rhodizonate or sodium sulfide. For the most accurate reading, get a kit of each type. In most cases, if a substance can be scraped off and separated from the underlying substrate of a product, such as paint on plastic substrate, it is treated as a surface coating that must comply with the 0.
Likewise, if a substance cannot be scraped from the substrate without also removing the substrate, such as colored plastic substrate, ordinary ink on paper, or fired-on decorations on glazed ceramic, it would be treated as part of the substrate that must comply with the lead content limit of parts per million.
A single product may have some components that bear a surface coating and are subject to the lead paint rule and have other accessible component parts, made of metal or plastic, subject to the lead content rule. Note: CPSC has approved separate test methods for lead in paint or other similar surface coatings and for the total lead content in a product's substrate materials.
If I have tested my product for its soluble lead content for compliance with Europe's requirements, do I also need to test for total lead content with the CPSC's requirements? Other countries have requirements and testing methods that differ from those of the CPSC. Do individual states have other regulatory requirements concerning the amount of permissible lead in consumer products? Certain states, like Illinois and California, have other regulatory requirements concerning lead content.
You should contact the Attorney General or Department of Health in each state directly for further guidance on specific state laws and requirements. Because the lead in paint regulation in the United States is longstanding, can I assume that commercially available paint complies with the lead in paint limits? If you are manufacturing a children's product , you must ensure that your finished product, or all of the painted components of your product, have been third party tested by a CPSC-accepted laboratory before you can certify that your product does not contain levels of lead in paint that violate the limit.
Due care must be taken to ensure the compliance of the paint or the surface coating. Currently, the applicable test methods for the regulation on lead in paint and other surface coatings are:.
Is composite testing or combining certain samples into one sample allowed when testing for lead in paint and other surface coatings? Yes, provided that certain conditions are met. Is component part testing allowed for testing for lead in paint and other surface coatings? Yes, but the component part testing must be conducted on the dried paint film that is scraped off of a surface to properly measure by weight.
Consistent with the regulation, testing paint or similar surface coatings in their liquid form cannot provide a basis for properly issuing a Component Part Certificate. No, the paint does not need to be scraped off of a sample of the finished product. The paint may be applied to any suitable substrate in order to dry, and the substrate used need not be of the same material as in the finished product.
For testing purposes, a larger quantity of paint may need to be tested than the quantity actually used on the finished product. Electroplating is specifically addressed in the definition section of the lead in paint regulation 16 CFR Part , and it is not considered to be a surface coating for purposes of the rule.
Some consumer products are exempt, with restrictions, and there are others that are exempt without restriction. Please refer to the regulation for the specific label statements required and the location where those statements must appear on product labels.
Even if a product is exempt from CPSC lead in paint requirements, a product may be banned by other federal authorities e. Environmental Protection Agency has restrictions on the use of leaded industrial coatings for bridges. Exempt and no cautionary labeling is required: Mirrors that are part of furniture articles with lead-containing backing paint, artists paints, and metal furniture other than children's furniture with a factory-applied lead coating, like powder coating, are exempt from the regulation and require no cautionary labeling.
The answer depends on whether the textile ink bonds with the fiber or if it can be scraped off of the textile substrate. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. JavaScript appears to be disabled on this computer. Please click here to see any active alerts. Answer: The older your home, the more likely it contains lead-based paint.
Lead-based paint may be present in private single-family homes or apartments, government-assisted, or public housing, and in urban, suburban, or rural settings.
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