Children's Toys, Arts, and Crafts: HMTc Program Manual

Scope and method

This manual states how Category 21 Children's Toys, Arts, and Crafts is certified for metal safety. It does not certify efficacy, legality, or approval status. Inorganic arsenic is not material on these standards. The cell is not a number. Methylmercury is not material on these standards. The cell is not a number. Hexavalent chromium publishes the number already on the live standard. That number does not replace total chromium. Every figure in the matrix is read from the live standard record. Nothing in this manual invents a ceiling.

Method: government-limit default (Method v2.0). Why Method v1 was retired is on the method page. The twenty-one live standards remain the derivation of each cell. A product is certified only at or below 100% of every published ceiling. The v1 PDF carries the program rules and the standards register, including each house DOI.

Master limit matrix

All values are ppb (µg/kg), in the row's basis. Click any subcategory for its derivation. n/m means not material (inorganic arsenic, methylmercury). It is not a number.

Subcategory	Pb	iAs	tAs	Hg	MeHg	Cd	Cr-VI	Ni	Sn	Al	Cr	Basis
Art & craft materials (paints, markers, crayons, colored pencils, inks, adhesives/glues, modeling clay, putties/gels/slimes, glitter/pigments, jewelry/craft kits)	500	n/m	900	1900	n/m	300	5	18800	3750000	560000	25000	as sold
Toy chests	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Toy pacifiers (toy-designated)	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Toys attached to cribs/playpens	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Balloons	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Balls	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Battery-operated/electronic toys	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Other toys/crafts (case-by-case)	500	n/m	900	1900	n/m	300	5	18800	3750000	560000	25000	as sold
Marbles	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
General toys with paint/surface coatings	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Pompoms and similar small fibrous craft items	23000	n/m	25000	25000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	25000	as sold
Projectile toys and toy guns	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Rattles	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Sound-producing toys	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Squeeze toys	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Stroller/carriage toys	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Stuffed toys and bean bag-type toys	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Stuffing materials	2000	n/m	3800	7500	n/m	1300	20	75000	15000000	2250000	60000	as sold
Toy substrate materials (accessible plastics/metals/woods/rubbers)	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Toys with magnets	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold
Yo-yo elastic tether toys	23000	n/m	25000	60000	n/m	17000	53	930000	180000000	28130000	60000	as sold

Every claim analyte is equal at the gate. A product is certified only when every published limit is met at or below 100% of its government floor or disclosed read-across. An exceedance on any metal enters Remediation and carries no mark.

Risk Flag

Certification is decided on the product's own tested lot against the published ceiling. The limit is that ceiling on the live standard. Occurrence data do not set it. An individual lot can still exceed a limit.

See the cross-category summary.

About this edition

Standards are living, versioned documents; each subcategory page carries its own version history and dated change log. This is the current web edition. The Manual v1 PDF is downloadable from the rail. Its program text and standards register match this page. The live subcategory pages remain the derivation of each cell. The manual DOI is not deposited yet.

The literature baseline underlying these certification limits is maintained independently at the Heavy Metal Index. This certification standard applies those findings; the two are kept editorially separate by design.