Terms Used In New York Laws > Environmental Conservation > Article 37 > Title 9 - Toxic Chemicals In Children's Products

• Chemical: means a substance with a distinct molecular composition or a group of structurally related substances and includes the breakdown products of the substance or substances that form through decomposition, degradation or metabolism. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Chemical of concern: means a chemical identified by the department by rule pursuant to subdivision one of section 37-0905 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Children: means a person or persons aged twelve and under. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Consumer product: means any product that is regularly used or purchased to be used for personal, family or household purposes. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Distributor: means a person who sells children's products to retail establishments on a wholesale basis. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• High-priority chemical: means (a) a chemical designated pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section 37-0905 of this title; and
  
  (b) a chemical adopted by the department pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision two of section 37-0905 of this title. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• manufacturer: includes the importer or first domestic distributor of the children's product if the person who currently manufactures or assembles the children's product or whose brand name is affixed to the children's product does not have a presence in the United States. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Toy: means a product designed or intended by the manufacturer to be used by children at play. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Trace contaminant: means a trace amount of a chemical or chemicals that is incidental to manufacturing, including an unintended by-product of chemical reactions during the manufacture of the children's product, a trace impurity in feed-stock, an incompletely reacted chemical mixture, or a degradation product. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Very bioaccumulative: means having a bioconcentration factor or bioaccumulation factor greater than or equal to five thousand, or if neither are available, having a log Kow greater than 5. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901
• Very persistent: means having a half-life greater than or equal to one of the following: (a) a half-life in soil or sediment of greater than one hundred eighty days; (b) a half-life greater than or equal to sixty days in water or evidence of long-range transport. See N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law 37-0901