California Advances Bills Banning ‘Juvenile,’ Other Products Containing PFAS

California lawmakers are advancing two controversial bills that would ban the sale of “juvenile” products and food packaging that contain per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), while also requiring cookware manufacturers to label products containing certain chemicals and prohibiting them from making claims that their products are free of a certain substance if it belongs to a chemical class like PFAS. The bills, which are opposed by chemical and product manufacturing groups, are notable in part because they effectively bypass the...