New Jersey · food packaging
For New Jersey, product category is food packaging; effective date is 2028-01-12; restriction type is sale ban; statute / bill is NJ P.L.2025, c.202 (S1042), C.56:3-58; pfas definition is intentionally added PFAS, recorded from its source on 2026-10-07.
- State
- New Jersey our reading
- Product Category
- food packaging verified
- Effective Date
- 2028-01-12 our reading
- Restriction Type
- sale ban our reading
- Statute / Bill
- NJ P.L.2025, c.202 (S1042), C.56:3-58 our reading
- PFAS Definition
- intentionally added PFAS verified
- Unavoidable Trace Quantity
- a technically unavoidable trace quantity of PFAS, which stems from impurities of natural or synthetic ingredients or the manufacturing process, storage, or migration from packaging our reading
- Enforcement Agency
- New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs our reading
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
6. a. Beginning two years after the effective date of this act, no person shall sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in the State any food packaging that contains intentionally added PFAS.
— pub.njleg.state.nj.us, retrieved 2026-10-07
Where each value comes from
This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.
Effective Date
17. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved January 12, 2026.
Unavoidable Trace Quantity
b. If a food packaging product contains a technically unavoidable trace quantity of PFAS, which stems from impurities of natural or synthetic ingredients or the manufacturing process, storage, or migration from packaging of the product, that trace quantity shall not cause the product to be in violation of this section.
Enforcement Agency
Whenever the Division of Consumer Affairs finds that a person has violated any provision of this act, or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto
— all from pub.njleg.state.nj.us, retrieved 2026-10-07
Source
- pub.njleg.state.nj.ushttps://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/PL25/202_.HTM