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Cookware industry seeks carve‑out from PFAS ban; health and environmental groups urge preserving law
Summary
SB 887 would exempt polymer‑coated cookware from last year’s PFAS restrictions. Industry witnesses said safe PFAS‑based fluoropolymer coatings have no reasonable replacement for some uses; health, environmental and consumer groups urged the committee to retain the ban to avoid long‑term contamination risks.
A petition by cookware manufacturers and trade groups to exempt polymer‑coated nonstick cookware from Connecticut’s PFAS restrictions (SB 887) drew sharply divided testimony.
Cookware makers and a newly formed Cookware Sustainability Alliance urged an exemption, arguing that the polymer coatings used on nonstick cookware (PTFE and related fluoropolymers) are chemically distinct from the PFAS class targeted in last year’s law, that they are widely used in medical and industrial…
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