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Standards, warnings and the checks worth doing.

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Paint-smeared bottles of acrylic colour on a wooden shelf above open trays of worn soft pastels — Well-used bottles and pastel trays show how quickly a working art shelf stops looking new.Photo: so flow soflow · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Four tubes of acrylic paint in a sealed pack with pencils and used brushes on plain wooden trays

Safety

Which art-supply label actually means the product was assessed

Conforms to ASTM D-4236, the small parts ban, the 100 ppm lead limit: what each label is required to mean before you buy paints for a child.

Updated 11/3/2026 · 10 min

Photo: Meriem Mach · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons