Maryland · food packaging
For Maryland, product category is food packaging; effective date is 2024-01-01; restriction type is sale ban; statute / bill is Md. Code, Env. § 9-1902 (MD HB 275 (2022)); pfas definition is intentionally added, recorded from its source on 2026-10-06.
- State
- Maryland our reading
- Product Category
- food packaging verified
- Effective Date
- 2024-01-01 our reading
- Restriction Type
- sale ban our reading
- Statute / Bill
- Md. Code, Env. § 9-1902 (MD HB 275 (2022)) our reading
- PFAS Definition
- intentionally added verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
(d) On or after January 1, 2024, a manufacturer or distributor may not manufacture or knowingly sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale or use in the State a food package or food packaging component designed and intended for direct food contact to which PFAS chemicals were intentionally added.
— mgaleg.maryland.gov, retrieved 2026-10-06
Source
- mgaleg.maryland.govhttps://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gen§ion=9-1902&enactments=false