CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXCEPTIONS (§ 62.1-193.2)

A. A person may use, sell, manufacture, or distribute for use or sale, a
cleaning agent that contains greater than zero percent phosphorus by weight but
does not exceed 8.7 percent phosphorus by weight that is:

   1.  A detergent used in a commercial dishwashing machine; and

   2.  A substance excluded from the zero percent phosphorus limitation of this
   chapter by regulations adopted by the Board of Agriculture and Consumer
   Services which are based on a finding that compliance with this chapter would:
               
            

      a.  Create a significant hardship on the user; or

      b.  Be unreasonable because of the lack of an adequate substitute cleaning
      agent.

B. This chapter shall not apply to a cleaning agent that is:

   1.  Used in dairy, beverage, or food processing equipment;

   2.  A product used as an industrial sanitizer, brightener, acid cleaner or
   metal conditioner, including phosphoric acid products or trisodium phosphate;

   3.  Used in hospitals, veterinary hospitals or clinics, or health care
   facilities or in agricultural or dairy production or in the manufacture of
   health care supplies;

   4.  Used in a commercial laundry that provides laundry services for a
   hospital, health care facility or veterinary hospital;

   5.  Used by industry for metal cleaning or conditioning;

   6.  Manufactured, stored, or distributed for use or sale outside of the
   Commonwealth;

   7.  Used in any laboratory, including a biological laboratory, research
   facility, chemical laboratory, and engineering laboratory;

   8.  Used for cleaning hard surfaces, including household cleansers for
   windows, sinks, counters, ovens, tubs, or other food preparation surfaces and
   plumbing fixtures; or

   9.  Used as a water softening chemical, antiscale chemical, or corrosion
   inhibitor intended for use in closed systems, such as boilers, air
   conditioners, cooling towers, or hot water heating systems.

HISTORY: 1987, cc. 66, 67; 2008, c. 10.