New York Laws
Title 9 - Toxic Chemicals in Children's Products
37-0901 - Definitions.

(b) a chemical adopted by the department pursuant to paragraph (b) of
subdivision two of section 37-0905 of this title.
11. "Intentionally added chemical" means a chemical in a product that
serves an intended function in the product component.
12. "Toy" means a product designed or intended by the manufacturer to
be used by children at play.
13. "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.
14. "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.
15. "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 5.0.