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.
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, tAs and 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.
Literature Evidence Summary
Pending synthesis. The routing layer and the HMTc evidence-summary generator populate this section from the source-page set declaring products: [teething-toys-teethers].
Source Evidence Inventory
Pending ingest. The routing layer populates this section from the source-page set declaring products: [teething-toys-teethers].
Broad Product Context: Author-Scope Index
Pending ingest. The routing layer surfaces sources whose author-stated scope is broader than this row (route_kind: broad_product_context) as they are added.
Federal/Regulatory Limits vs Field Findings
Pending ingest. The applicable regulatory jurisdictions for this row are recorded in the page frontmatter; the crosswalk table is generated by tools/apply-product-crosswalk-sections.mjs once regulation pages and field-evidence sources are routed to this row with structured limit values.
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
Pending ingest. Regulatory events (recalls, enforcement actions, import alerts) relevant to this row will be added as agency records are ingested into the corpus.
Sources
Pending ingest. The Source Legend is auto-generated by tools/evidence/build-source-legend.mjs once source pages declaring products: [teething-toys-teethers] are added.
Update history
No substantive edit history is available in this build. The full commit record is available in git.