Kelty Daisy Chain Web Duffel Bag is the highest-graded Kelty product we have scored, at 85/100. It depends on the product line rather than the brand, so check the grade of the exact item you are buying.

Which Kelty products are lower concern for PFAS?

The highest-graded Kelty products we have scored are Kelty Daisy Chain Web Duffel Bag. That is our model-based estimate from materials and public disclosure, not a lab test.

Which Kelty products should I avoid?

The lowest-graded Kelty products we have scored are Kelty Wireless 4 Person Tent, Kelty Rumpus 4-Person Tent, Kelty Backpack Rain Cover. Each one links to the evidence behind its grade.

27Poor

Kelty Review, Is Kelty Non-Toxic?

The verdict November 2026

Kelty averages 27 out of 100 on PFAS Authority's PFAS and toxin screen across the 25 Kelty products graded as of November 2026, and 1 of them reach its 70 point pass mark.

Free to quote with attribution to PFAS Authority and a link to pfasauthority.com/brands/kelty.

Kelty grades Poor on our four-band scale.

PFAS Authority is a scoring system, not a laboratory. We do not test products ourselves. Grades are model-based, built from published ingredients, materials, certifications, brand disclosures and third-party lab results where they exist. See the rubric.

What Kelty says and does about PFAS

Kelty makes a completed-transition claim, and it lives in a customer support article rather than on a policy page. Kelty says its products have not been made with perfluorinated carbon compounds since 2016 and that it moved to a treatment it calls CZero DWR. The claim uses PFC wording rather than PFAS, covers the water-repellent treatment only, and says nothing about zippers, membranes or other components. We found no independent testing of Kelty products.

Brand statementKelty says its products have not been made with perfluorinated carbon compounds since 2016, so any product manufactured after that will not have any PFCs, and that it moved to CZero DWR in all its products, which it describes as PFC free. Kelty support ↗
Regulatory filingCalifornia bans new textile articles containing regulated PFAS from sale in the state from 1 January 2025, with outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions covered from 1 January 2028. California AB 1817 ↗

Sources checked October 1, 2026. A brand statement is the company’s own claim, which we report but have not verified. Our grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests.

Does Kelty have PFAS, by category

Which Kelty products are PFAS-free? Good or better, best-graded first

Kelty

Daisy Chain Web Duffel Bag

85ExcellentPFAS grade

Polyester webbing and nylon
Azo dyes in polyester webbing. Polyester duffels are often dyed with azo dyes, which can release aromatic…

4 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.

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Which Kelty products contain PFAS? Poor and Bad, we’d swap these

Kelty

28-inch Cargo Duffel Travel Bag

40PoorPFAS grade

Nylon with water-repellent coating water-resistant treatment
PFAS. Kelty has not disclosed whether the water-repellent finish uses fluorine-based (PFAS) or fluorine-free…

Kelty Review, Is Kelty Non-Toxic?

What Kelty says and does about PFAS

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