Regulatory radar for consumer-product brands
Know before it hits your shelf.
Recall, ban, and regulation monitoring for small consumer-product brands — in plain English.
State PFAS bans, CPSC rules, flammability standards, tariff changes — tracked daily, matched to your products, delivered as alerts you can act on.
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The 2026–27 compliance wall
Eleven states, eighteen months, one product line.
State PFAS restrictions were written independently, so they land in a cluster with different thresholds, different covered categories, and different reporting duties. A single rain jacket can be legal in one state, reportable in a second, and banned in a third — in the same quarter.
This is the calendar we track for you. Dates move; we move with them.
Sep 15, 2026
- MNMinnesota all-product reporting deadline for intentionally added PFAS (Amara's Law). Applies to every product category sold in MN.
Dec 31, 2026
- NYNew York carpet PFAS ban takes effect.
Jan 1, 2027
- WAWashington apparel/accessories and cleaning-product PFAS restriction takes effect (50 ppm total fluorine enforcement presumption). Reporting due 1/31/2027 for extended-use apparel, footwear, recreational gear (tents, packs, sleeping bags) and cookware.
- RIRhode Island broad consumer PFAS ban takes effect across textiles, juvenile products, cookware, cosmetics and more.
- NHNew Hampshire 8-category PFAS ban takes effect.
- NMNew Mexico bans PFAS in cookware, food packaging, dental floss and juvenile products, plus labeling and reporting duties.
- CACalifornia AB 1817 textile threshold drops from 100 ppm to 50 ppm total organic fluorine.
- OROregon cosmetics PFAS ban takes effect.
- COColorado ban on PFAS in outdoor textile furnishings and upholstered furniture takes effect.
Jul 1, 2027
- VTVermont bans PFAS in cleaning products and dental floss; textile threshold steps down to 50 ppm.
Jan 1, 2028
- CTConnecticut full PFAS ban across all listed categories takes effect.
- COColorado ban extends to textile articles generally.
- CACalifornia outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions loses its exemption — PFAS ban applies.
- NYNew York outdoor apparel for severe wet conditions loses its exemption — PFAS ban applies.
What you get
Email is the product. No dashboard to log into and forget.
Real-time alerts
When CPSC recalls a product like yours, when a state PFAS bill passes, when a mandatory ASTM standard gets revised — you hear it from us, usually the same day. Every alert is read by a human before it reaches you.
A monthly brief for your exact catalog
Not a newsletter. One page, written against your SKU list and the states you sell into: what changed, what it means for you, what to do next, and what is coming.
Ask-anything email support
Reply to any alert with "does this hit our fleece line?" and get a straight answer. Unlimited, included, no hourly rate.
Pricing
One price. No implementation fee, no per-seat maths.
Radar
Most brands$99/mo
- Up to 25 SKUs
- Real-time alerts matched to your catalog
- Monthly plain-English brief
- Ask-anything email support
- First brief free · cancel anytime
Radar Pro
$249/mo
- Up to 150 SKUs
- Everything in Radar
- Wholesale-channel attestation letter templates
- Supplier questionnaire templates
- Priority turnaround on questions
Sample brief
Monthly Radar — [Brand], March 2027
An anonymized brief for a small outdoor kids' brand. This is the whole deliverable — one page, no attachments to decode.
1. Urgent — act this month
The Washington apparel restriction is now in effect, and your rain jacket line ships to WA retailers. As of January 1 the state treats 50 ppm total fluorine as an enforcement presumption: at or above that level, Ecology presumes PFAS were intentionally added and the burden shifts to you to show otherwise.
What this means for you: your two DWR-finished rain jackets are the exposed SKUs. Fleece, cotton tees and the accessory line are not in scope. Ecology has signalled that first-round enforcement is document-driven — they ask for supplier attestations before they ask for lab results.
Suggested action: send the attached supplier attestation letter template to your shell-fabric mill this week and ask for a signed return by the end of the month. If the mill will not sign, that is your answer about the fabric, and you should pull a lab test before the next PO. We have pre-filled the template with the 50 ppm total-fluorine language Ecology uses.
2. This month — no action needed, for the record
CPSC recalled a competitors toddler jacket over drawcord strangulation under 16 CFR 1120. Your outerwear uses snap closures with no neck or hood drawcords, so nothing in your line is implicated. We are noting it because buyers at two of your accounts will have seen the recall notice and may ask — the one-line answer is that your jackets have no drawcords at any position.
The California 50 ppm textile threshold took effect January 1, dropping from 100 ppm. Your DWR-free certification from the mill on file covers this, and the certificate language references total organic fluorine, which is the right metric for AB 1817. No new paperwork required.
Questions
Frequently asked
- Is this legal advice?
- No. ProductSentry is monitoring and plain-English summaries. We tell you what changed and where to look. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice — when something needs a lawyer, we say so.
- What exactly do you watch?
- CPSC recalls and rulemaking, the Federal Register (CPSC, EPA, FTC, USTR/ITC), FTC consumer-protection enforcement, state legislation via LegiScan, docket comment deadlines on Regulations.gov, the state agency PFAS pages themselves, and the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. Eight sources, polled daily to monthly depending on how fast they move.
- How do you know which alerts apply to me?
- During onboarding you paste your product list. We map every SKU to a product category and record the states you sell into. Events are matched against that profile, and a human reviews every match before it is sent — so you get the two that matter, not the forty that do not.
- What if I only have a handful of products?
- Radar covers up to 25 SKUs at $99/mo, which fits most brands doing under $5M. Radar Pro covers 150 SKUs and adds attestation letter templates for wholesale buyers who demand them.
- Can I cancel?
- Any time, from the billing portal, no email required. Your first monthly brief is free — if it is not useful, do not pay for a second.
- Do you handle non-US regulations?
- Not today. We are deliberately US-only (federal plus all 50 states) so the coverage is deep rather than broad. EU REACH and similar are not on the MVP roadmap.
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