WA becomes first state to limit lead content in metal cookware | kgw.com
"In May of last year, the KING 5 Investigators purchased three traditional Afghan pressure cookers from #Amazon and #Etsy. That was nearly a year after King County researchers first warned that the cookers – manufactured and marketing in Afghanistan as an aluminum product – had high amounts of lead in some of the metals using in the forging process.
Lab testing showed the cookers KING 5 purchased were made with as much as 34,000 parts per million lead, which can leach into food while cooking.
The new law restricts #lead content in cookware to five parts per million. Meaning, the cookers KING 5 purchased had as much as 6,800 times the amount of lead that will be allowable when the law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2026."
