Including a count taken from a display. Which is how the family total was wrong.
Reading 0.06 percent as the threshold
It is the figure printed first in the definition and it is superseded. The operative number is 0.009 percent, stated in a parenthesis four times across the part, and the difference is about sevenfold.
0.009 percent of a dried film against a weighted average of 0.25 percent over a fitting’s wetted surfaces. Same metal, a factor of about twenty eight, different measurement bases, and neither number checks the other.
Reading the children’s article limb as being about access
The definition says intended to be entrusted to or for use by children, and then says expressly that this does not include all articles a child might reach simply because they are in a household.
Treating a pigmented container as a painted one
The definition of paint excludes materials which become part of the substrate, naming the pigment in a plastic article. Nothing on this shelf is coated, printed or glazed.
Counting families from a truncated listing
Which is the mistake made on this shelf earlier and corrected on 19 October 2026. A display showing the fourteen largest families was read as fourteen families. The real figures are 25 and 18.
Building a material filter on the family name
One row of 251 is named a PET packer bottle, records PET as its material, and sits in a family called HDPE Packer Bottle. The family field is a product line label and the material field is the specification.
Reading three materials as the shape of the catalog
This shelf has 117 PET, 78 polypropylene and 56 glass. The catalog’s material field takes twenty seven values across 2,150 products, including HDPE on 251 of them. Three is a property of this shelf.
Putting static grass in a plastic jar
Fine synthetic fiber takes a static charge and clings to a charged plastic wall instead of tipping out. Of 251 containers, 56 are glass, which is the part of the shelf that does not do it.
And treating part 1303 as a rule about any of this
It bans lead-containing paint and certain products bearing it. It is the spine of this property because it carries the lowest threshold in this library, because its definition of paint turns on the boundary between a coating and a substrate, and because it exempts a hobby coating by name.
References
16 CFR 1303.2(b)(2): "Lead-containing paint means paint or other similar surface coating materials containing lead or lead compounds and in which the lead content (calculated as lead metal) is in excess of 0.06 percent (0.06 percent is reduced to 0.009 percent effective August 14, 2009) by weight of the total nonvolatile content of the paint or the weight of the dried paint film." 16 CFR 1303.1(a) and (c) carry the same parenthetical correction, noting the reduction was "mandated by Congress in section 101(f) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008". 16 CFR 1303.4 states the ban: paint and similar surface-coating materials which are lead-containing paint, toys and other articles intended for use by children that bear it, and furniture articles that bear it, manufactured after February 27, 1978.
law.cornell.eduThe Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The 251 containers on this shelf fall into twenty five families. Five carry 171 rows between them: PET Single Wall Jar at 101, PP Single Wall Jar at 26, Double Wall Round Base Jar at 22, glass straight sided jar at 20 and glass boston round at 15. Nine more carry between 2 and 13 rows each. And eleven carry exactly one row: PET Cylinder Round, PET spray bottle, HDPE Packer Bottle, PET Packer Bottle, Honey Container, Glass Tapered Jam Jar, Glass round lug jar not straight, Glass low profile jar, PP thick wall jar, Lip balm tube and Deodorant Container. The same shelf has eighteen subcategories, seven of them holding one row: Cylinder Rounds, Deodorant Tubes, Honey Bottles, Lip Balm Tubes, Low Profile Jars, Spray and Trigger Bottles and Thick Wall Jars. An earlier pass on this shelf reported fourteen families and fourteen subcategories, which was a truncated count read as a total; the figures were corrected on 19 October 2026.
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. One row on this shelf carries a family name that disagrees with its other fields: the product named "500 cc Clear PET Packer Bottle" records its material as PET and its family as "HDPE Packer Bottle". The name and the material field agree with each other; the family label does not agree with either. A separate family called "PET Packer Bottle" exists on the same shelf and also holds one row. The material field across this shelf takes exactly three values, 117 PET, 78 polypropylene and 56 glass. Across the whole catalog of 2,150 products the material field takes twenty seven values, including HDPE on 251 products, LDPE on 65, PVC on 52, Metal on 91 and Steel on 28.
