Federal · Title 42 — Public Health and Welfare
42 U.S.C. § 14332: Limitations on sale of alkaline-manganese batteries containing mercury
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No person shall sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes any alkaline-manganese battery manufactured on or after May 13, 1996 , with a mercury content that was intentionally introduced (as distinguished from mercury that may be incidentally present in other materials), except that the limitation on mercury content in alkaline-manganese button cells shall be 25 milligrams of mercury per button cell.
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