---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 14333"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "14333"
heading: "Limitations on sale of zinc-carbon batteries containing mercury"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/14333"
units:
  - "Chapter 137 — Management of Rechargeable Batteries and Batteries Containing Mercury"
  - "Subchapter III — Management of Batteries Containing Mercury"
---

# §14333. Limitations on sale of zinc-carbon batteries containing mercury


No person shall sell, offer for sale, or offer for promotional purposes any zinc-carbon battery manufactured on or after May 13, 1996, that contains mercury that was intentionally introduced as described in [section 14332 of this title](/usc/42/14332.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–142, title II, § 204, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)