How to Identify Lead Free Certification Marks for Pipes, Fittings, Fixtures, Solder, and Flux Used for Drinking Water
Citation:
Latham, M. How to Identify Lead Free Certification Marks for Pipes, Fittings, Fixtures, Solder, and Flux Used for Drinking Water. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/F-13/153d, 2024.
Impact/Purpose:
Will help protect public health and give consumers more assurance that the products they purchase are lead-free, enabling them to manage lead leaching contamination risk.
Description:
On September 1, 2020, EPA published the final regulation, Use of Lead Free Pipes, Fittings, Fixtures, Solder, and Flux for Drinking Water. EPA made the conforming changes to existing regulations based on the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act of 2011 and the Community Fire Safety Act of 2013 enacted by Congress. As of September 21, 2023, EPA requires importers or manufacturers to certify that their pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux products meet the lead free requirements. If these products are not lead free, the Safe Drinking Water Act prohibits their use in the installation or repair of any public water system or any plumbing in a residential or non-residential facility providing water for human consumption It also makes it unlawful to introduce them into commerce, including stocked inventories. In the United States, there are currently eight American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited third-party certification bodies that provide product certification to the Safe Drinking Water Act lead free requirement for manufacturers of pipes, fittings, fixtures, solder, and flux used for drinking water. Each of these certification bodies has unique certification marks (registered trademarks) that they use to certify a multitude of drinking water products for various requirements. This document will assist users with identifying certification marks that indicate a pipe, pipe fitting, plumbing fitting or fixture, solder, or flux meets the lead free certified requirement.
URLs/Downloads:
HOW TO IDENTIFY LEAD FREE CERTIFICATION MARKS FOR PIPES_FITTINGS_FIXTURES_SOLDER_AND FLUX USED FOR DRINKING WATER.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 1607.776 KB, about PDF)https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-06/how-to-id-lead-free-certified-drinking-water-products-epa_june-2024.pdf