Article 6NR76 Clothes, cookware, floss: Colorado law to ban everyday products with PFAS

Clothes, cookware, floss: Colorado law to ban everyday products with PFAS

by
Edward Helmore
from on (#6NR76)

Items containing forever chemicals' linked to cancer risk, lower fertility and developmental delays

A new law coming into effect in Colorado in July is banning everyday products that intentionally contain toxic forever chemicals", including clothes, cookware, menstruation products, dental floss and ski wax - unless they can be made safer.

Under the legislation, which takes effect on 1 July, many products using per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances - or PFAS chemicals linked to cancer risk, lower fertility and developmental delays - will be prohibited starting in 2026.

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