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title: "42 U.S.C. § 14332"
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title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 14332 - Limitations on sale of alkaline-manganese batteries containing mercury
## Text
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 shall be 25 milligrams of mercury per button cell.
(Pub. L. 104142, title II, § 203, May 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1336.)