A list defined by other standards
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The exclusion list runs to eleven entries and most of them cite a standard
Structural plywood as specified in PS 1-19. Structural panels as specified in PS 2-18. Structural composite lumber as specified in ASTM D5456-21e1. Glued laminated lumber as specified in ANSI A190.1-2017. Prefabricated wood I-joists as specified in ASTM D5055-19e1.
Four entries stand without a citation
Hardboard. Oriented strand board. Finger-jointed lumber. And wood packaging. Those four are treated as sufficiently well understood to name without a reference.
Wood packaging is the one that belongs in a packaging catalog
Wood packaging, including pallets, crates, spools, and dunnage. A federal emissions rule excluding packaging by name, with four examples.
This library has now found three rules that reach packaging explicitly
And all three do something different with it, which is worth collecting in one place because the differences are the useful part.
One treats the package as an obstruction to be remedied
The care labeling rule anticipates that a package hides the required label and orders the care information onto the outside of the package as the fix.
One puts the label on the package as well as the product
The wool products rule requires a label affixed to each product and, where required, to its package or container, and asks it to survive distribution and resale.
And this one excludes packaging from the standard entirely
Pallets, crates, spools and dunnage are outside the emission standards, which is a sensible place to draw the line for a rule about indoor air in finished interiors.
The structural exclusions follow the same logic from a different direction
Structural members are used in framing rather than in interior joinery, so a different body of standards already governs them and a different exposure profile applies.
Then a list of five vehicle interiors
Composite wood used inside new vehicles other than recreational vehicles, new rail cars, new boats, new aerospace craft and new aircraft. Recreational vehicles are carved back in, which is the one exception inside the exception.
And a secondhand exclusion that turns on good faith
Any finished good previously sold or supplied to an end user, defined as someone who purchased or acquired it in good faith for purposes other than resale. The example given is antiques or secondhand furniture.
A good faith test in an emissions rule is unusual
It makes the exclusion depend on the state of mind of an earlier purchaser rather than on a property of the object, which is a very different kind of condition from a figure in parts per million.