(a) No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer or expose for sale, give or furnish any synthetic detergent or detergent containing more than eight and seven-tenths percent of phosphorus by weight, expressed as elemental phosphorus, within the City, unless the recommended use level of such synthetic detergent or detergent contains less than seven grams of phosphorus by weight, expressed as elemental phosphorus, and unless the recommended use or loading level and grams of phosphorus contained therein is conspicuously marked on the package in which such synthetic detergent or detergent is sold or offered for sale. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, synthetic detergents or detergents manufactured for use in machine dishwashers, dairy equipment, beverage equipment, food processing equipment and industrial cleaning equipment shall not be subject to the limitations herein set forth.
(b) The concentration of phosphorus by weight, expressed as elemental phosphorus, in any synthetic detergent or detergent shall be determined by the current applicable method prescribed by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
(Ord. 75-1985. Passed 6-3-85.)