---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 14332"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "14332"
heading: "Limitations on sale of alkaline-manganese batteries containing mercury"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/14332"
units:
  - "Chapter 137 — Management of Rechargeable Batteries and Batteries Containing Mercury"
  - "Subchapter III — Management of Batteries Containing Mercury"
---

# §14332. Limitations on sale of alkaline-manganese batteries containing mercury


No person shall sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes any alkaline-manganese battery manufactured on or after May 13, 1996, with a mercury content that was intentionally introduced (as distinguished from mercury that may be incidentally present in other materials), except that the limitation on mercury content in alkaline-manganese [button cells](/usc/42/14302.md?p=2) shall be 25 milligrams of mercury per [button cell](/usc/42/14302.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 203, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)