Atlanta — ECIA has issued an Industry Alert from its Global Industry Practices Committee (GIPC) experts to update members on an environmental regulation that will impact members. Minnesota’s PFAS law—often called “Amara’s Law” (Minn. Stat. § 116.943)—creates one of the most far-reaching reaching PFAS product reporting and restriction regimes in the U.S.

This regulation, which goes into effect in July of this year, concerns PFAS (per and polyfluoroalkyl substances) which are a large family of synthetic chemicals used since the 1940s in products that need to resist water, grease, stains, or heat—things like nonstick cookware, food packaging, textiles, firefighting foams, and many industrial applications. Their carbon fluorine bonds are extremely strong, so they do not break down easily in the environment, which is why they are often called ‘forever chemicals.’