(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 after September 1, 1979. No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer or expose for sale, give or furnish any synthetic detergent or detergent which requires a recommended use level of such synthetic detergent or detergent which contains more than seven grams of phosphorus by weight expressed as elemental phosphorus, within the City after September 1, 1979. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions herein, 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 but are hereby made expressly to the provisions of subsection (b) hereof.
(b) No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer or expose for sale, give or furnish any synthetic detergent or detergent containing any phosphorus, expressed as elemental phosphorus, including synthetic detergents or detergents manufactured for machine dishwashers, dairy equipment, beverage equipment, food processing equipment and industrial cleaning equipment within the City after September 1, 1979.
(c) The concentration of phosphorus by weight, expressed as elemental phosphorus in any synthetic detergent or detergents shall be determined by the current applicable method prescribed by the American Society for Testing and Materials (A.S.T.M.).
(Ord. 1979-92. Passed 6-6-79.)