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Committee approves revised cookware lead limits, phases lower standard to 2028
Summary
The committee adopted a full rewrite striking amendment to Senate Bill 5,628 that set an initial 90 parts-per-million (ppm) lead limit for certain metal cookware in 2026, phased to 10 ppm in 2028, narrowed the rule to aluminum and brass cookware and moved rulemaking flexibility to the Department of Ecology; committee reported the bill 16-5.
On March 20, 2025 the House Environment & Energy Committee adopted striking amendment H2056.2 to Senate Bill 5,628 and reported the bill out of committee with a due-pass recommendation on a roll-call vote of 16 ayes and 5 nays.
Under the adopted striking amendment, the allowable lead level in covered cookware will be 90 parts per million beginning Jan. 1, 2026,…
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