Overview
This page is the HMTc Taxonomy v2.2 Category 9 (Infant and Child Contact Products, Ages 0-5), Row 5: Teething toys/teethers. It is the routing destination for source-page declarations of products: [teething-toys-teethers]. A teether is a mouthable article governed by toy-safety law, not a food; its heavy-metal limits are element migration limits from the toy material (EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC Annex II Part III, the EN 71-3 test standard, ASTM F963 soluble migration) together with the CPSIA total-lead limit for children’s products. The routing boundary in the taxonomy places teethers here rather than in Category 21 (Children’s Toys) because the mouthing-specific exposure pathway governs.
Literature scope
The Heavy Metal Index contact-product corpus reports element occurrence and migration in children’s toys and mouthable articles; sources routed to this row are surfaced below as they are added. Until sources land, the literature-evidence sections are deliberately empty rather than guessed. HMTc certification thresholds for products in this row are developed under the certification program at heavymetalcertified.com, not on this public page; this page reports literature evidence and the applicable regulatory caps only.
Evidence summary
Sources for this row will be listed here once they are catalogued.
Source Evidence Inventory
Sources for this row will be listed here once they are catalogued.
Supporting evidence and scope
Broader-scope sources for this row will be listed here when they are catalogued.
Federal/Regulatory Limits vs Field Findings
Regulatory limits for this row will be listed here once they are catalogued.
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. For this row the certification limit is set by the Method v2.0 government-limit lookup — the strictest credible government migration limit per analyte in the correct basis — not by an occurrence percentile. 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 migration and content in teething toys and teethers. Speciation is non-substitutable (contact-product arsenic and mercury limits regulate total element, total arsenic (tAs) and total mercury (tHg); inorganic arsenic and methylmercury have no migration counterpart and are recorded not-material for this matrix). Basis is preserved and never conflated: element migration from toy material (mg/kg of material) is a different quantity from total-content limits (mg/kg of product), and each is labelled with its basis. Non-detect handling follows each source’s reporting convention. Pooling is avoided across differing bases and methods.
The applicable regulatory jurisdictions for this row are: CPSIA, CPSC (ASTM F963), EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC.
Sources
Sources for this row will be listed here once they are catalogued.
Update history
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