Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part I - Office of the Secretary › Subpart 1 - Departmental Administrative Procedures › Chapter 27 - Mercury Risk Reduction › Subchapter A - Requirements Related to the Sale of Mercury-Added Products › Section I-2705 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The following
					 terms used in this Chapter shall have the meanings listed below, unless the
					 context otherwise requires, or unless specifically redefined in a particular
					 Section.
Amalgam
- any of various alloys of
						mercury and other metals, as with tin or silver.
Amalgam Sludge
- the mixture of liquid
						and solid material collected within vacuum pump filters or other amalgam
						capture devices.
Appliances
(
White
						Goods
)- discarded domestic and commercial appliances, such as
						refrigerators, ranges, washers, and water heaters.
Chair Side Traps
- devices that capture
						amalgam waste during amalgam placement or removal procedures.
Contact Amalgam
- amalgam that has been
						in contact with a patient. Examples include extracted teeth with amalgam
						restorations, carving scrap collected at chair side, and amalgam captured by
						chair side traps, filters, or screens.
Empty Amalgam Capsule
- an
						individually-dosed container left over after mixing pre-capsulated dental
						amalgam.
Fabricated Mercury-Added Product
- a
						product that consists of a combination of individual components that combine to
						make a single unit including, but not limited to, mercury-added measuring
						devices, lamps, and switches.
Formulated Mercury-Added Product
- a
						chemical product, including, but not limited to, laboratory chemicals, cleaning
						products, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and coating materials, that is sold as a
						consistent mixture of chemicals.
Health Care Facility
- any hospital,
						nursing home, extended care facility, long-term care facility, clinical or
						medical laboratory, state or private health or mental institution, clinic,
						physician's office, or health maintenance organization.
Manufacturer
- any person, firm,
						association, partnership, corporation, governmental entity, organization, or
						combination or joint venture that produces a mercury-added product, or an
						importer or domestic distributor of a mercury-added product produced in a
						foreign country. In the case of a multi-component mercury-added product, the
manufacturer
is the last manufacturer to produce or assemble
						the product. If the multi-component product is produced in a foreign country,
						the
manufacturer
is the importer or domestic
						distributor.
Mercury-Added Novelty
- a mercury-added
						product intended mainly for personal or household enjoyment or adornment.
Mercury-added novelties
include, but are not limited to, items
						intended for use as practical jokes, figurines, adornments, toys, games, cards,
						ornaments, yard statues and figures, candles, jewelry, holiday decorations,
						items of apparel including footwear, and similar products.
Mercury-Added Product
- a product,
						commodity, or chemical, or a product with a component, that contains mercury or
						a mercury compound intentionally added to the product, commodity, chemical, or
						component in order to provide a specific characteristic, appearance, or quality
						or to perform a specific function or for any other reason. These products
						include
formulated mercury-added products
and
fabricated mercury-added products,
as defined in this
						Subsection
.
The presence of mercury as a contaminant does not
						of itself make a product a
mercury-added product.
Mercury Fever Thermometer
- a
						mercury-added product that is used for measuring body temperature.
Motor Vehicle
- an automobile, motor
						home, motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle, recreational vehicle trailer, boat
						trailer, semitrailer, truck, truck-tractor, and any other device that is
						self-propelled and drawn, in, upon, or by which any person or property is or
						may be transported or drawn either upon or off a public highway, except such as
						is moved by animal power, or is used exclusively upon stationary rails or
						tracks, or is an implement of husbandry.
Non-Contact Amalgam (Scrap)
- excess
						amalgam mix left over at the end of a dental procedure that has not come into
						physical contact with a patient.
Vacuum Pump Filter
- a device used for
						filtering amalgam solids from vacuum lines that may contain amalgam sludge and
						water.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with
						R.S.
						30:2001 et seq. and, in particular,
						2571.