Compliance Urged With California PFAS Cookware Law Amid Enforcement Void

Industry attorneys are advising cookware manufacturers to strive to comply with a new California law requiring products containing intentionally added PFAS and other toxic chemicals to be labeled as such, despite evidence that the state currently lacks any efforts to enforce the requirements. “Unlike other consumer protection ‘right to know’ statutes related to toxic chemicals, such as California’s Proposition 65,” the new state law, AB 1200, “currently has no statutory private right of action,” explains a Feb. 22 blog post...