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.