ACMI Cadmium Pigment Pre-Approval

Cadmium pigments have been a natural choice for use in artists' colors since they were introduced in the early part of this century. Their brightness, clarity of hue, opacity and stability to light, chemicals and solvents ensured their success.

Since those early days, producers have consistently been attentive to the quality and safety of their products. Levels of acid-extractable cadmium have steadily been reduced, by several orders of magnitude, making the pigment safer in use and final application.

The Art & Creative Materials Institute Inc. of the USA (ACMI), has an established certification program to ensure the safety and proper use of art materials and grants pre-approval status to raw materials and final toxicological approval to finished products that are authorized to bear one of the ACMI's Certification Marks (CP, AP or HL).

After working closely with the toxicologists at Duke University, the very low levels of extractable cadmium from JMB cadmium pigments has guaranteed pre-approval status as a raw material in 100% pigment form.

This offers producers of artists' colors two benefits when selecting cadmium pigments for their products :-

1. When submitting new formulae containing JMB cadmiums to the ACMI, no further testing of the pigment portion of the formulae is required.
   
2. When substituting with JMB cadmiums in existing ACMI-approved formulae, no further testing of the pigment portion is required upon re-submission of the final product.

In either case, when producers (many of whom are ACMI members), seek approval of their products for the American market they will save both time and money.

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