Beyond PFAS: What 40 Cookware Brands List in Their California Chemical Disclosures

Written by Lara Yehia. Lara researches home and kitchen products for Cupindy.
Data checked 26 September and 10 October 2026. Next check: January 2027.

If you have ever turned a pan over looking for a straight answer about its coating, you know how little the box tells you. Since 2023, California has asked cookware makers to put that answer online. Under a state law known as AB 1200, a brand must list the chemicals it intentionally adds to a pan's cooking surface or handle, if those chemicals are on California's Candidate Chemicals list.

We read those pages for 40 well-known cookware brands sold in the US and recorded what each one says, quoting it wherever we could. Here is what we found.

What stood out

PFAS shows up in nonstick coatings. In almost every case, the PFAS a brand discloses is part of a nonstick coating, named as PTFE, FEP or PFA. If those letters are new to you, our guide to what “PFOA-free” really means explains how they relate.

Some brands say it plainly. Lodge writes, “Our cookware is made without PFOA and PTFE.” Viking writes that its nonstick cookware “contains the following intentionally added PFAS chemicals for their nonstick properties” and then names PTFE, FEP and PFA. Both are easy to read.

The lists go well beyond PFAS. Stainless steel pans list the metals that make up the steel, such as iron, chromium and nickel (our stainless steel grades guide explains why). A few pages list less familiar chemicals. The entry for one Le Creuset nonstick pan we sampled lists solvents such as N-methylpyrrolidone and ethylene glycol under food-contact chemicals. Xtrema's report lists nickel oxide and cobalt oxide in its ceramic glaze.

Some answers take digging. Le Creuset, Cuisinart and the Zwilling group (Zwilling, Henckels, Staub, Demeyere, Ballarini) disclose product by product through search tools. For 5 brands, we could not find a disclosure page at all on the date we checked.

Brand by brand: what each disclosure says

The table is sorted by result, then by brand. Text in quotation marks is copied from each brand's disclosure page or the file it links to, and long quotes are shortened with “...”. Text without quotation marks is our own description. Each row links to the page we read.

Notes from our checks

• KitchenAid cookware. The Meyer disclosure page we had on file for KitchenAid cookware redirected to a “Store unavailable” page on 10 October. KitchenAid's own disclosure page covers its appliances, not its cookware.
• Nordic Ware. Its key defines code 9 as PFAS. No item on the list carried code 9 on 28 September (archived copy) or on 10 October.
• Misen. Its current lines list no PFAS. The page notes that its traditional nonstick line, discontinued at the end of 2024, did.

We will check every brand again each quarter and record what changed here.

What this means when you shop

If you would rather avoid PFAS altogether, the simplest route is a pan without a nonstick coating: stainless steel, cast iron, carbon steel or enameled cast iron. If you want an easy-release surface, look for brands whose disclosure lists no intentionally added PFAS, and check the specific line, since some brands make both kinds.

These guides go further, with materials explained and picks for each type of pan:

• Non-toxic cookware guide
• Non-toxic stainless steel cookware
• Best non-toxic bakeware
• Is HexClad non-toxic?

How we did it

1. We chose 40 well-known cookware brands sold in the US.
2. On 26 September 2026 we searched for each brand's AB 1200 page and saved archived copies where the Internet Archive accepted them.
3. On 10 October 2026 we read every page again in a browser. For brands that disclose product by product (Le Creuset, the Zwilling group, Nordic Ware, OXO), we searched the lists or opened sample items.
4. All-Clad and T-fal did not load for us, so we read copies saved to the Internet Archive the same day. Hestan's US page did not load for us, so we used its archived copy from 27 September. Each archived copy is linked in the table.
5. We recorded each brand by what its page says about its cookware and bakeware: Yes, No, No PFAS item found, Unclear, or Page not located. Where a page also covers appliances, tools or bottles, the table notes it.
6. We compared our results with the cookware disclosure directory from Defend Our Health, which covers more than 200 brands with data to the end of June 2026. Our results differ from theirs for some brands, including Nordic Ware, OXO and KitchenAid cookware; pages may have changed since June. Use it alongside this study.

Use this data

You are welcome to quote or chart these findings with a link to this page. If you are a brand and your disclosure has moved or changed, email [email protected] and we will check it again and update the table.

Brand names belong to their owners. Cupindy is not affiliated with any brand listed. Pages may have changed since the dates shown. This page is for information only and is not legal or medical advice.