Haderach C. Kwisatch<p>WA becomes first state to limit lead content in metal cookware | kgw.com</p><p>"In May of last year, the KING 5 Investigators purchased three traditional Afghan pressure cookers from <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> and <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Etsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Etsy</span></a>. 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>The new law restricts <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/lead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lead</span></a> 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."</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cookware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cookware</span></a> <a href="https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/investigators/washington-becomes-first-state-to-regulate-lead-content-metal-cookware/281-7d9d1fd3-7f05-4085-af3d-ec0ec72252a6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">king5.com/article/news/investi</span><span class="invisible">gations/investigators/washington-becomes-first-state-to-regulate-lead-content-metal-cookware/281-7d9d1fd3-7f05-4085-af3d-ec0ec72252a6</span></a></p>