PTFE, sold as Teflon

Is a fluorochemical

Coatings and finishes. Also written PTFE, Teflon, polytetrafluoroethylene.

A fluoropolymer sheet bonded to the pan. Teflon is Chemours’ brand name for it, and other makers sell the same chemistry under their own names or under none.

PTFE is itself a PFAS under the definitions used by the OECD and by the state laws on our timeline, so a product naming it is not a product where PFAS is in question. Our rubric treats a named fluoropolymer as a hard cap, which is why these products cannot grade above Poor however they are built otherwise.

What the makers actually said

Of the 111 graded products whose materials record Teflon or PTFE alongside a coating or finish, 28.8% 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
76
Named a coating that is not a fluorochemical
3
Named no chemistry at all
32

A further 4 products record Teflon or PTFE 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 111 graded consumer products that record Teflon or PTFE together with a coating or finish, 28.8% name a coating chemistry anywhere in their published materials, according to PFAS Authority's October 2026 spec sheet decoder edition.

How those 115 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 Teflon or PTFE 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 5 out of 100, across 29 categories.

GradeProductsShare
Excellent21.7%
Good54.3%
Poor10.9%
Bad10793%

Where Teflon or PTFE turns up

The 6 categories holding the most of it, out of 29. Each one links to the live ranking for that category, best graded first.

Best graded with Teflon or PTFE

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

Worst graded with Teflon or PTFE

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 coatings and finishes

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.