CONSUMER PRODUCTS AND RETAIL E-SSENTIALS

Textile articles that are ordinarily used in households and businesses e.g., clothing items for regular wear or formal occasions, footwear, workwear, outdoor apparel, accessories, handbags, backpacks, towels, tablecloths, draperies, bedding, upholstery, etc. 

Note: “Textile” means any item made in whole or part from a natural, manmade, or synthetic fibre, yarn, or fabric, and includes, but is notlimited to, leather, cotton, silk, jute, hemp, wool, viscose, nylon, or polyester.

PFAS refers to a class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.

Regulated PFAS means either of the following:

• PFAS which are intentionally added to a product with a functional or technical effect that covers PFAS that are intentional breakdown products of an added chemical that also have such effect in the product, or
• The presence of PFAS in a product or its component at or above the limit values, as measured in total organic fluorine:

•  Starting from 1 January 2025, 100 ppm
•  Starting from 1 January 2027, 50 ppm 

• Textile articles (excluding outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions) shall not contain regulated PFAS manufactured, distributed, sell or offer for sale in California: 

• The requirements for outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions will apply until 1 January 2028. However, starting from 1 January 2025, products containing PFAS shall be accompanied by the statement “Made with PFAS chemicals”, including for online selling.
  
  Such outdoor apparel is designed for outdoor sports experts for applications that provide protection against extended exposure to extreme rain conditions or against extended immersion in water or wet conditions, e.g., offshore fishing, offshore sailing, whitewater kayaking, mountaineering, etc.

• Personal protective equipment;
• Clothing exclusively used by the United State military;
• Carpet and rugs;
• Treatments containing PFAS for use on converted textiles or leathers;
• Vehicles;
• Vessels or their components such as boat covers;
• Filtration media and filter products in industrial applications;
• Textile articles used in or for laboratory analysis and testing;
• Aircrafts;
• Stadium shades or other architectural fabric structures;
• Single-use paper hygiene products.