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Washington State Proposes to Expand the Product Scope of Lead Containing Cookware Ban

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2025-02-27

Washington, D.C., issued the HB1756 bill to amend the ban on lead in cookware, expand the scope of appliance use, exclude non touchable parts and large appliances, define "components," "cookware," "non touchable parts," and "appliances," and maintain the effective date of January 1, 2026. Violators will face fines.

On February 20, 2025, the Washington House of Representatives released Bill HB 1756 to amend the state's existing ban on lead in cookware (HB 1551, included in Washington State RCW 70A.565). The most significant change is the expansion of the product's applicability to utensils and the exclusion of non-contact components and certain large utensils from the scope. This revision does not affect the timeliness, and the effective date of January 1, 2026 will remain unchanged.

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Major changes in 2025

1. Add 'grills and other cooktop surfaces that touch food' to the definition of 'component', and also add a description that 'component' does not include parts that cookware or utensils cannot touch '.

2. Added 'utensil' to the definition of 'cookware'. And it is pointed out that "cookware" does not include large appliances such as refrigerators and stoves, such as stoves with metal surfaces that do not come into direct contact with food.

3. Add the definition of "Inaccessible component": "Inaccessible component" refers to a part or component of a cookware that is located inside or completely enclosed by another material, and will not come into contact with or come into contact with food during the expected use and normal wear and tear of the product. And add a description that "non-contact components" do not apply to components composed of multiple testing layers with different functions, such as aesthetic layers, thermal conductive layers, durable layers, corrosion-resistant layers, and optimal thickness layers in the final design components, and one of these components will come into direct contact with food during use, such as cooking pots composed of multiple layers of materials.

4. Added the definition of 'utensil'. Utensils "refer to metal containing items that come into direct contact with food, such as knives, forks, spoons, spatulas, and other food preparation tools.

Understand the original HB 1551 Act

On March 28, 2024, Washington State passed HB 1551, becoming the first state in the United States to restrict lead content in cookware and cookware components.

The main provisions of the bill are as follows:

Starting from January 1, 2026, manufacturers are prohibited from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, distributing, or distributing cookware or cookware components containing more than 5ppm lead or lead compounds for use in Washington State.

Starting from January 1, 2026, retailers or wholesalers shall not intentionally sell or offer for sale cookware or cookware components containing more than 5ppm lead or lead compounds used in Washington State.

Substance

Scope of application

Require

Effective Date

lead

Cookware and cookware components*

≤5ppm

January 1, 2026

*Definition of cookware and cookware components:

·Cookware: refers to any metal pot, flat bottomed pot, grill, rice cooker, pressure cooker, and other containers and equipment used for preparing or storing food.

·Cookware components: "Components" include independent or different parts of cookware, including but not limited to accessories such as lids, knobs, handles and handle components, rivets, fasteners, valves, and exhaust pipes.

It should be noted that the bill states that a maximum civil fine of $5000 will be imposed for first-time violations. For repeated violations, a maximum civil fine of $10000 will be imposed.