---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 1507.2"
title: "16"
number: "1507.2"
heading: "Prohibited chemicals."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/1507.2"
---

# §1507.2. Prohibited chemicals.


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.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1261-1262, 2079(d); 21 U.S.C. 371(e).

### Source

Source: 41 FR 22935, June 8, 1976, unless otherwise noted.