Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-334 - Children's safe products-Reporting rule › Section 173-334-040 - What definitions apply to terms used in this chapter?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
"Chemical Abstracts Service number" or "CAS" means the number
				assigned for identification of a particular chemical by the Chemical Abstracts
				Service, a service of the American Chemical Society that indexes and compiles
				abstracts of worldwide chemical literature called
Chemical
				Abstracts
.
"CHCC list" means the reporting list of chemicals that the
				department has identified as high priority chemicals of high concern for
				children.
"Child" means an individual under twelve.
"Children's product" has the same meaning as defined in
				RCW
				   70.240.010.
(a) For the purposes of this rule, children's products only
				include products that are sold, or are to be offered for sale, to consumers in
				the state of Washington.
(b) In addition to the exemptions specified in
				RCW
				   70.240.010, for the purposes of this rule,
				"children's product" does not include over the counter drugs, prescription
				drugs, food, dietary supplements, packaging, medical devices, or products that
				are both a cosmetic and a drug regulated by the Food and Drug
				Administration.
(c) A product label that includes usage instructions for use of
				a product that apply to children does not in and of itself establish that the
				product is a children's product.
"Contaminant" means trace amounts of chemicals that are
				incidental to manufacturing. They serve no intended function in the product
				component. They can include, but are not limited to, unintended by-products of
				chemical reactions during the manufacture of the product component, trace
				impurities in feed-stock, incompletely reacted chemical mixtures, and
				degradation products.
"De minimis level" means for a chemical that is an
				intentionally added chemical, a concentration below the practical
				quantification limit; or for a chemical that is a contaminant, a concentration
				below 100 parts per million.
"Department of health" means the Washington state department of
				health.
"Intentionally added chemical" means a chemical in a product
				that serves an intended function in the product component.
"Internal component" means a children's product component that
				during reasonably foreseeable use and abuse of the product would not come into
				direct contact with the child's skin or mouth.
"Manufacturer" means the producer, importer, or wholesale
				domestic distributor of a children's product and is more specifically defined
				in RCW
				   70.240.010. For the purposes of this rule, a
				retailer of a children's product is not a manufacturer unless it is also the
				producer, manufacturer, importer, or domestic distributor of the
				product.
"Mouthable" means able to be brought to the mouth and kept in
				the mouth by a child so that it can be sucked and chewed. If the product can
				only be licked, it is not able to be placed in the mouth. If a product or part
				of a product in one dimension is smaller than five centimeters, it can be
				placed in the mouth.
"Practical quantitation limit" or "(PQL)" means the lowest
				concentration that can be reliably measured within specified limits of
				precision, accuracy, representativeness, completeness, and comparability during
				routine laboratory operating conditions. This value is based on scientifically
				defensible, standard analytical methods. The value for a given chemical could
				be different depending on the matrix and the analytical method used.
"Product category" means the "brick" level of the GS1 Global
				Product Classification (GPC) standard, which identifies products that serve a
				common purpose, are of a similar form and material, and share the same set of
				category attributes.
"Product component" means a uniquely identifiable material or
				coating (including ink or dye) that is intended to be included as a part of a
				finished children's product.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.240 RCW,
				  RCW
				     70.240.040. 11-16-008 (Order 09-04), §
				  173-334-040, filed 7/21/11, effective
				  8/21/11.