[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 16CFR1507.2]

[Page 535]
 
                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
             CHAPTER II--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
 
PART 1507--FIREWORKS DEVICES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  1507.2  Prohibited chemicals.

    Fireworks devices shall not contain any of the following chemicals:
    (a) Arsenic sulfide, arsenates, or arsenites.
    (b) Boron.
    (c) Chlorates, except:
    (1) In colored smoke mixtures in which an equal or greater amount of 
sodium bicarbonate is included.
    (2) In caps and party poppers.
    (3) In those small items (such as ground spinners) wherein the total 
powder content does not exceed 4 grams of which not greater than 15 
percent (or 600 milligrams) is potassium, sodium, or barium chlorate.
    (d) Gallates or gallic acid.
    (e) Magnesium (magnesium/aluminum alloys, called magnalium, are 
permitted).
    (f) Mercury salts.
    (g) Phosphorus (red or white). Except that red phosphorus is 
permissible in caps and party poppers.
    (h) Picrates or picric acid.
    (i) Thiocyanates.
    (j) Titanium, except in particle size greater than 100-mesh.
    (k) Zirconium.