(a) 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, within the City. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, 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 subject to the provisions of subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter no person, firm or corporation shall offer, sell or expose for sale, give or furnish any detergent containing any phosphorus expressed as elemental phosphorus manufactured for machine dishwashers, dairy equipment, beverage equipment, food processing equipment and industrial cleaning equipment within the City until such date as Council determines there are suitable substitutes available therefore.
(c) 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.
(Ord. 164-73. Passed 12-20-73.)