PFAS cookware laws, state by state.

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Five things brands get wrong

• "Washington banned cookware", no.In Washington, cookware & kitchen supplies are report-only: annual reports to Ecology from January 31, 2027, not a sales ban.
• "New Jersey banned cookware", also no. New Jersey's 2026 law gives cookware a labeling duty from 2028; the bans cover cosmetics, carpets, fabric treatments, and food packaging.
• Minnesota is two obligations, not one. The cookware sales ban has been in force since 2025, and the reporting duty (due Sept 15, 2026) applies to what you've sold since 2023, at the component level.
• Connecticut is live now. Since July 1, 2026, selling PFAS cookware in CT requires a label and prior notification to DEEP with an $800 fee, the outright ban waits until 2028.
• "Ceramic = done" isn't a compliance position. PFAS-free marketing still needs supplier attestations behind it, Minnesota expects verification, and Prop 65 plaintiffs lab-test "PFAS-free" claims.

California's different lever

California doesn't ban PFAS cookware, it requires disclosure: designated chemicals listed on the product label (since 2024) and on the product webpage (since 2023) under AB 1200. If your cookware sells nationally, you're managing a ban in five states, labels in three, and a report in two, from one bill of materials. That's the exact problem the checker maps in sixty seconds.