Overview
This page is a scaffolded entry for HMTc Taxonomy v2.0 Category 19 (Laundry and Fabric-Contact Home Products), Row 3: Pre-treaters (spray/gel/stick) and stand-alone stain/spot removers. Studies for this row are still being read. Where a section is empty, the row has not yet accumulated contributing sources of the required kind.
Literature scope
The Heavy Metal Index source corpus is currently focused on food and food-contact materials. This page documents an HMTc Taxonomy v2.0 row in the category Laundry and Fabric-Contact Home Products for which no peer-reviewed primary or government sources have yet been ingested. The page exists as the routing destination for future ingest. Until sources land, the literature-evidence sections below are deliberately empty rather than guessed; HMTc certification thresholds for products in this row continue to be developed under the certification program at heavymetalcertified.com, not on this public page.
Reading guide
Legal, regulatory and retailer teams can use the cited measurements, applicable limits and study limitations to assess the evidence for this category.
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Evidence summary
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Source Evidence Inventory
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Supporting evidence and scope
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Federal/Regulatory Limits vs Field Findings
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Controls and mitigation
Practical interventions to reduce heavy-metal load in this row, ordered by impact magnitude. Each lever names the magnitude of the effect with a cited source; cross-links to dedicated Mitigation pages where they exist.
- Sourcing levers — Not yet catalogued.
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- Formulation levers — Not yet catalogued. (See Formulation mitigation.)
- Testing and QC levers — Not yet catalogued. (See Testing and quality-control mitigation when published.)
- Packaging and storage levers — Not yet catalogued. (See Packaging and storage mitigation when published.)
How standards math uses this page
HMT&C certification thresholds for this row are developed under the certification program at heavymetalcertified.com, not on this page. The row-standard for this row is an aggregate computed from the contributing source pool in the row’s native finished-product basis; it is not a per-source decoration of any single value cited on this page. This public page reports literature evidence only.
Historical recalls and enforcement
Public regulatory events for this row, such as recalls and import alerts, will be listed here as they are catalogued.
Methodology
This page reports what the cited sources say about heavy-metal concentrations in pre-treaters (spray/gel/stick) and stand-alone stain/spot removers. Speciation is non-substitutable (iAs vs tAs, MeHg vs tHg, Cr-VI vs total Cr). Basis is preserved (finished-product as sold unless the source specifies otherwise; see each row for the basis label). Non-detect handling follows each source’s reporting convention. Pooling is avoided across LOD/LOQ, period, geography, and analytical-basis differences. HMT&C certification thresholds for products in this row are developed under the certification program at heavymetalcertified.com, not on this page; this public page reports literature evidence only.
The applicable regulatory jurisdictions for this row are: Green Seal GS-48, EPA Safer Choice.
Sources
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Sources
Source records associated with this topic. Inclusion does not establish that every finding applies to this product or ingredient. References above identify works cited in the text.
| # | Citation | Year | Type | Used on this page for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alfonso Jose Lag-Brotons (Joint 2025. Revision of the EU Ecolabel criteria for Detergent and Cleaning Products — 2nd Ad-hoc Working Group Meeting (12-13 March 2025), Technical Report 2 (TR2) consultation deck, European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Directorate B (Fair and Sustainable Economy), Circular Economy and Sustainable Industry unit. Stakeholder consultation slide deck, 226 pages, presented at the 2nd Ad-hoc Working Group (AHWG) hybrid meeting (Brussels + WebEx), 12-13 March 2025, supporting the Technical Report 2 (TR2) and the 2nd draft EU Ecolabel (EUEL) criteria proposals for the six detergent and cleaning product groups (Laundry Detergents LD; Industrial and Institutional Laundry Detergents IILD; Dishwasher Detergents DD; Industrial and Institutional Dishwasher Detergents IIDD; Hand Dishwashing Detergents HDD; Hard Surface Cleaning Products HSC). Final EUEL criteria proposals scheduled for Q2 2026 (TBC); current Commission Decisions 2017/1214-1219 expire 31 June 2026. | 2025 | Regulatory consultation deck | EU Mercury occurrence in Not applicable: regulatory consultation slide deck for the EU Ecolabel revision process, not an experimental study. The document… |
| 2 | EC 2024. EU Ecolabel User Manual for Detergents and Cleaning Products (Version 1.5, February 2024) — guidance supporting Commission Decisions (EU) 2017/1214, 2017/1215, 2017/1216, 2017/1217, 2017/1218 and 2017/1219, European Commission EU Ecolabel programme, User Manual for the six 2017 detergents and cleaning products Commission Decisions, Version 1.5, February 2024 (77 pages plus four separately-issued Annexes — Annex I Application form, Annex II Declarations A and B, Annex III Checklist, Annex IV Derogation form; produced by the EU Ecolabel programme team to support applicants and member-state competent bodies through the assessment-and-verification procedure for the six 2017 product-group Commission Decisions: LD/2017/1218 laundry detergents; IILD/2017/1219 industrial and institutional laundry detergents; DD/2017/1216 dishwasher detergents; IIDD/2017/1215 industrial and institutional dishwasher detergents; HSC/2017/1217 hard surface cleaning products; HDD/2017/1214 hand dishwashing detergents) | 2024 | Regulatory user manual | EU Silver occurrence in Not applicable: procedural user manual for the EU Ecolabel programme, not an experimental study and not a Commission… |
| 3 | EPA 2024. EPA’s Safer Choice Program — Master Criteria for Safer Ingredients (Version 2.1, October 2024), U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program, Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics (federal program criteria document; Version 2.1, October 2024; cover identifies the Safer Choice and Design for the Environment (DfE) certification programs) | 2024 | Government guidance | The EPA Safer Choice program’s Master Criteria document, Version 2.1 (October 2024), is the 31-page federal program criteria text that… |
| 4 | EPA 2024. EPA’s Safer Choice and Design for the Environment (DfE) Standard (August 2024), U.S. EPA Safer Choice Program, Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics (federal program standard document; first issued June 2009 as the DfE Standard for Safer Products; revised April 2011, September 2012, February 2015 as EPA’s Safer Choice Standard; current August 2024 revision) | 2024 | Government guidance | US Cd, Pb, Hg, Cr-VI occurrence in Not applicable: federal program standard document. The 36-page Standard body (plus four annexes A-D giving sample partnership-agreement templates)… |
| 5 | RAL gGmbH (German EU 2024. The EU Ecolabel for household detergents — The EU Ecolabel is the official European Union label for environmental excellence, EU Ecolabel consumer factsheet, September 2024 (two-page factsheet jointly branded with the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUV), the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), and RAL gGmbH as the German competent body for the EU Ecolabel; euecolabel) | 2024 | Regulatory factsheet | A two-page consumer-facing factsheet dated September 2024, issued by RAL gGmbH (the German national competent body for the EU Ecolabel)… |
| 6 | Green Seal 2020. GS-51: Green Seal Standard for Laundry Care Products for Industrial and Institutional Use, Edition 1.6, Green Seal, Inc. voluntary environmental certification standard; Edition 1.6 issued April 8, 2020, replacing Edition 1.5 from September 12, 2019, with corrections/clarifications last made July 30, 2021. | 2020 | Regulatory standard | US Pb, tHg, Cd, Cr-VI, tAs, Co, Mn, Ni occurrence in Not applicable: this is the binding text of Green Seal GS-51 Edition 1.6 for industrial and institutional laundry… |
| 7 | New York State Department 2020. Cleansing Product Information Disclosure Program — Recommended Best Management Practices, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC) — undated post-court-ruling Recommended Best Management Practices (BMP) document supporting the statutory household-cleansing-product disclosure requirement at 6 NYCRR Part 659.6 (authorised by Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) Article 35). The predecessor Program Policy on Household Cleansing Product Information Disclosure was declared null and void by the NYS Supreme Court (Household & Commercial Products Association v. Seggos, ruling issued August 2020); DEC maintains the present BMP document as recommended practice while moving forward to implement the underlying statute and regulation. Document text references EPA’s pre-MCL drinking-water values for 1,4-dioxane (350 ppt) and PFOA/PFOS (70 ppt combined), consistent with pre-July-2020 publication of the BMP framework prior to NY DOH’s August 2020 adoption of stricter state MCLs for those chemicals. | 2020 | Government guidance | US-NY Pb, Cd, tAs, tHg, Cr-VI, Ni occurrence in Not applicable: post-2020 court-ruling Recommended Best Management Practices (BMP) guidance document. The 22-page document (sections A. Form of… |
| 8 | Iwegbue et al. 2019. Risk of human exposure to metals in some household hygienic products in Nigeria, Toxicology Reports 6 (2019) 914-923 (Elsevier; ISSN 2214-7500) | 2019 | Peer-reviewed | NG Cd, Pb, Cr, Cu, Co, Ni, Mn, Zn, Fe occurrence in Twenty-seven brands of household hygienic products purchased in Abraka, Sapele and Warri (Delta State, southern Nigeria), comprising ten… (n=27) |
| 9 | Partners et al. 2017. SB 258 (Lara): The Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017 — factsheet, Coalition advocacy factsheet (two-page NGO joint-statement document) in support of California SB 258 (Sen. Ricardo Lara), the Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017. Headers carry the logos of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP), Environmental Working Group (EWG), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), in that order. Contact block on p. 2 names Nancy Buermeyer (BCPP), Bill Allayaud (EWG), Avi Kar (NRDC), and Jamie McConnell (WVE). | 2017 | NGO report | This is a two-page coalition advocacy factsheet circulated by Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP), the Environmental Working Group (EWG), the… |
| 10 | Foundation 2014. The dirt on toxic chemicals in household cleaning products, David Suzuki Foundation (consumer-education article, web copy archived as PDF) | 2014 | NGO report | CA As, Cd, Pb occurrence in Not applicable: consumer-education article; no original sampling, no analytical measurements. Compiled from cited secondary sources (ATSDR ToxFAQs sheets,… |
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