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Program structure
How a limit is set, how a product is tested against it, and what happens when a lot fails. The rules are published in advance so that neither the program nor a brand can decide them after the result is known.
The Two Pathways
The default HMTc limit is the strictest applicable government maximum. Where the program sets a number itself — the Tier-1 toxics and the cells no government regulates — it uses two pathways: a clean-subcategory limit near P97 (~90% pass) and a dirty-subcategory limit near P45 (~40% pass).
Confidential Remediation Track
A brand that finds a problem should be better off telling us than concealing it. Report it, fix it on schedule, and the certificate holds and the record stays closed. Conceal it and the certificate goes.