The Governor of the State of California signed AB1200 into law on October 5, 2021, which added Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 109000) to Part 3 of Division 104 of the California Health and Safety Code. Beginning January 1, 2023, this law requires a disclosure on a cookware manufacturer’s website if the manufacturer sells cookware in California that includes in the handle or cooking surface certain intentionally added chemicals appearing on the California DTSC Candidate Chemical List in the cooking surface or handle of the cookware.
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California Health & Safety Code 109010-109014
“Cookware” means durable houseware items that are used in homes and restaurants to prepare, dispense, or store food, foodstuffs, or beverages. “Cookware” includes pots, pans, skillets, grills, baking sheets, baking molds, trays, bowls, and cooking utensils.
“Intentionally added chemical” means a chemical that a manufacturer has intentionally added to a product and that has a functional or technical effect in the product, including the components of intentionally added chemicals and intentional breakdown products of an added chemical that also have a functional or technical effect in the product.
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The tables below list chemicals contained in the following RATIONAL products.
By Jan. 1, 2024, any manufacturer of cookware containing “intentionally added PFAS chemicals” in the handle of the product or in any product surface that come into contact with food or beverages (“regulated cookware”) must list the presence of such PFAS chemicals on the product label. For more information about PFAS chemicals in such products a website is required.
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Colorado Revised Statute § 25-15-604(2)
“Cookware” is a durable houseware product that is used in residences or kitchens to prepare, dispense, or store food or beverages, which also includes "pots, pans, skillets, grills, baking sheets, baking molds, trays, bowls, and cooking utensils"
“Intentionally added chemical” means a chemical that a manufacturer has intentionally added to a product and that has a functional or technical effect in the product, including the components of intentionally added chemicals and intentional breakdown products of an added chemical that also have a functional or technical effect in the product.
The tables below list chemicals contained in the following RATIONAL products.