MPs exclude kitchen utensils from the scope of the law

Exit them teflon pans. The deputies removed kitchen utensils from the scope of the bill aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of products containing PFAS, examined Thursday April 4 in the Assembly. Massively present in everyday life, these perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances called PFAS owe their nickname to their very long life cycle and, for some, to their harmful effect on health.

“Once again”the majority allied to the Republicans and the National Rally will have “given in to lobbying [du fabricant] Seb, to the detriment of the health of the French. It’s a shame”reacted the environmentalist deputies. “Take the kitchen utensils out of the law, it is allowing the intoxication of everyone, children, pregnant women, all those who cannot change their utensils when they are scratched, the most precarious, at each meal”also reacted Sandrine Rousseau on the social network X.

The majority had initially proposed to postpone the ban on kitchen utensils to 2030 against 2026 in the bill tabled by the Green deputies. The latter refusing to go beyond 2027, the majority responded by simply deleting the paragraph concerning these products. A decision taken as manufacturers sounded the alarm this week about the threats to employment that such a ban would pose.