California Compliance
California Cookware Disclosure (AB 1200)
Real products, real people, real good times around real food — that’s been the whole idea since 1985. Part of earning your trust at the table is being straight with you about what goes into the gear you cook with. This page is our disclosure under California’s Safer Food Packaging and Cookware Act (Assembly Bill 1200).
The short version. California’s AB 1200 is a “right to know” law. It asks cookware makers to publicly list any chemicals in a product’s cooking surface or handle that appear on a state-maintained “designated list.” A chemical being on that list doesn’t mean a product is unsafe — it means we’re telling you it’s there so you can make an informed choice. GSI cookware is manufactured to meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements for food-contact materials.
What AB 1200 requires
California’s Safer Food Packaging and Cookware Act of 2021 (AB 1200) took effect for cookware on January 1, 2023. When a cookware product intentionally contains a chemical that appears on the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) list of Candidate Chemicals, the manufacturer must publish, on its website:
- the names of those intentionally added listed chemicals present in the product’s cooking surface and/or handle;
- the names of the authoritative lists that the DTSC Candidate Chemicals List draws from; and
- a link to each of those authoritative lists.
The table below provides that disclosure for GSI Outdoors cookware sold in California.
How to read this disclosure
GSI builds cookware from a handful of material families — hard-anodized aluminum, stainless steel, non-stick coatings, porcelain enamel on steel, and glass. We’ve grouped our products by material below and listed the intentionally added chemicals in each that appear on a designated authoritative list, along with where they occur (cooking surface, handle, or lid). Chemicals identified only as a group (for example, “nickel compounds”) reflect how the state list itself names them.
| Product line / material | Component | Intentionally added listed chemical(s) | Authoritative list source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halulite & hard-anodized aluminum (uncoated cook pots, pans, mugs) |
Cooking surface & body | Aluminum; manganese compounds† | Prop 65; U.S. EPA IRIS |
| Non-stick coated cookware (Pinnacle, Bugaboo & similar PTFE lines) |
Cooking surface (coating) | Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE / fluoropolymer) | DTSC Candidate Chemicals List (PFAS) |
| Ceramic non-stick cookware | Cooking surface (coating) | Titanium dioxide† | Prop 65; IARC |
| Glacier & Grand Gourmet stainless steel (pots, pans, cups, bottles, lids) |
Cooking surface & body | Chromium compounds; nickel compounds; manganese compounds | Prop 65; IARC; NTP; U.S. EPA IRIS |
| Enamelware (porcelain enamel on steel) |
Cooking surface (enamel) & steel core | Cobalt compounds; nickel compounds; chromium compounds; antimony compounds | Prop 65; IARC; NTP |
| Tempered glass lids & components | Lid | None intentionally added from a designated list† | — |
| Handles & grips (silicone, nylon, stainless bail) |
Handle | Stainless bail: chromium compounds; nickel compounds | Prop 65; IARC; NTP |
† Listed in the spirit of full transparency. GSI’s compliance team maintains the current, product-specific version of this table; contact us using the details below for the disclosure that applies to a specific item.
About the authoritative lists
The DTSC Candidate Chemicals List is built from chemicals that appear on one or more established scientific and regulatory “authoritative lists.” The chemicals disclosed above are drawn from the following sources:
- California Proposition 65 List — Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
- IARC Monographs — List of Classifications — International Agency for Research on Cancer (World Health Organization)
- Report on Carcinogens — U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP)
- Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Full index of DTSC authoritative lists — California Department of Toxic Substances Control
A note on PFAS and non-stick coatings
Most GSI cookware — including our flagship Halulite hard-anodized aluminum and Glacier stainless steel — is built with no non-stick coating at all. For the products that do use a non-stick surface, PTFE (a fluoropolymer in the PFAS family) is disclosed above. In line with AB 1200, we don’t make blanket “free of” claims for a chemical class where a member of that class is intentionally added to a product. If avoiding coated cookware matters to you, look for our uncoated Halulite and stainless lines.
Questions?
If you want the specific disclosure for a product, or you have any question about the materials in your GSI gear, our team is happy to help. Reach us at custserv@gsioutdoors.com or through our Contact page.