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.