Anodized aluminium

Not a fluorochemical

Base materials. Also written anodized, hard anodized, anodised aluminium.

Aluminium whose own surface has been converted electrochemically into a hard oxide. Hard anodized describes the thickness of that layer and nothing about what may be applied over it.

This is the term most likely to be misread as an answer. The oxide layer is not a coating in the PFAS sense, but hard anodized pans are very often sold with a non-stick coating on top, and the word anodized describes the metal underneath it. Check the spec for a second term.

What the makers actually said

Of the 61 graded products whose materials record anodized aluminium alongside a coating or finish, 85.2% name no coating chemistry anywhere in their published materials. This is a count of what companies published. It is not a statement about what any product contains.

Named a fluoropolymer
8
Named a coating that is not a fluorochemical
1
Named no chemistry at all
52

A further 19 products record anodized aluminium with no coating or finish at all, so there is nothing for a maker to have disclosed. They are outside the split above.

Free to quote with a link. Of the 61 graded consumer products that record anodized aluminium together with a coating or finish, 85.2% name a coating chemistry anywhere in their published materials, according to PFAS Authority's October 2026 spec sheet decoder edition.

How those 80 products graded on our rubric

These are model-based estimates, not laboratory tests, scored on one public rubric. Read the spread against the categories underneath it rather than as a verdict on anodized aluminium in the abstract, because the rubric gives every category a baseline and a term concentrated in one category will carry that category’s spread with it.

Median grade 15 out of 100, across 18 categories.

GradeProductsShare
Excellent1316.3%
Good78.8%
Poor00%
Bad6075%

Where anodized aluminium turns up

The 6 categories holding the most of it, out of 18. Each one links to the live ranking for that category, best graded first.

Best graded with anodized aluminium

One per category, best first, so the list is not five of the same thing.

Worst graded with anodized aluminium

One per category, worst first. A low grade here is usually something else on the product, not the term.

Decode a whole listing instead

A product usually names several of these at once, and the one that matters is rarely the one in the title. Paste the full materials line into the decoder and it will pick out every term it recognises, the most open-ended first.

Other base materials

Edition 2026-10-08, read from 11,337 graded products carrying a material string, and frozen at that date. A term is matched against the material and construction string recorded for each product, written from its published materials, specification and ingredient list rather than from a laboratory test. Products count under every term they match, so the totals across terms overlap. Found something wrong? Tell us.