12/13/2022
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🧑🏽🍳 For many people, the holidays mean lots of baking and cooking! ⚠️ But did you know❓ your cookware may contain toxic chemicals that could find their way into your food. 🤯 Before frying up some latkes for Hanukkah, baking your best Christmas cookies, or prepping Jollof rice and other Kwanzaa favorites, be sure to familiarize yourself with the healthiest cookware options.
💁🏽♀️ Instead of using cookware with PFOA, toxic teflon (PTFE), or non-stick coatings, we recommend going with cast iron, carbon steel, or stainless steel. You can also use ceramic coated pans.
🎉 GOOD NEWS: the California Safer Food Packaging & Cookware Act of 2021 (AB 1200) - which we co-sponsored alongside & - kicks into effect next year, and will require the disclosure of chemicals of concern in cookware surfaces that come into contact with food or beverages or in cookware handles, both online and on the label. Online disclosure requirements begin in 2023. On label disclosures must start in 2024.
AB 1200 also addresses misleading statements on cookware. Many cookware items claim to be free of a particular problematic chemical when they contain other similar problematic chemicals. For instance, cookware may claim to be PFOS-free, when it may contain one of thousands of other PFAS chemicals. Under the new law, beginning in 2023, cookware manufacturers are no longer allowed to make statements such as PFOS-free if they contain other chemicals from a family of chemicals identified by the state as being of concern for health or the environment.
