What is PFAS?
Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can refer to a broad category of thousands of compounds with distinct and widely varying properties and characteristics. They are used in everyday applications to promote durability, water resistance, and many other qualities. These substances are used across many industries, including:
- Automobiles, including electric and conventional vehicles, to help protect fuel lines, seals, and batteries.
- Aerospace, to help allow for interference-free communication from the cockpit to the wings, tail, and other equipment.
- Advanced communications networks, including WiFi and cellular data networks.
- Consumer goods, including non-stick cookware, food packaging, cosmetics, and clothing.
- Electronics, such as semiconductors and batteries, which are critical for everything from smart phones and wearable fitness trackers to national security technologies.
- Medical technologies and devices, like catheters, stents, and needles, as well as transdermal patches that are used for medicine delivery.
- Medicines and pharmaceuticals, including life-saving therapeutics, as well as common prescription medicines that treat conditions like anxiety or depression.
- Sustainable and renewable energy, including solar panels, windmills, and fuel cells.
3M’s products, including those containing PFAS, are safe and effective for their intended uses in everyday life. To learn more about certain 3M products that use PFAS*, as well as our innovation and reformulation efforts, view the document below.
3M PFAS in Products Supplemental Report (XLSX, 1.3 MB) - Last Updated: February 6, 2026
For convenience, this website aggregates information about products that were independently designed, manufactured, and/or sold by subsidiaries of 3M Company, in addition to products that were designed, manufactured, and/or sold by 3M Company itself.
*This list represents 3M products that contain intentionally added PFAS and that were sold in the United States in the past two years, based on 3M’s current knowledge following a reasonable investigation. Reformulation and discontinuation timeframes represented on this list are estimates based on our current knowledge and are subject to change.
This list is not an official discontinuation or reformulation notice. 3M will use existing communication channels to help keep customers informed of potential impacts to the availability of products they purchase from 3M, including issuing discontinuation notices to customers buying directly from 3M as appropriate.
Our PFAS exit
3M announced in 2000 that we would voluntarily phase out of manufacturing PFOA, PFOS, and related chemistries, and have done so worldwide. 3M announced in December 2022 it would take two further actions with respect to PFAS: exiting all PFAS manufacturing by the end of 2025 and working to discontinue the use of PFAS across its product portfolio by the end of 2025. 3M completed its exit of PFAS manufacturing at the end of 2025.
Our PFAS manufacturing exit
3M announced in December 2022 it would take two further actions with respect to PFAS: exiting all PFAS manufacturing by the end of 2025 and working to discontinue the use of PFAS across its product portfolio by the end of 2025. 3M completed its exit of PFAS manufacturing at the end of 2025. 3M will continue to take actions to address PFAS manufactured prior to the exit. For example, the Company's water treatment assets at facilities that manufactured PFAS will continue to treat PFAS from historical manufacturing activities and remediate residual PFAS in waste streams from the Company's operations. 3M also will continue to work through the disposition of its assets and its interests in manufacturing facilities, which may include dismantling, cleaning and repurposing, and other dispositions of facilities or equipment. 3M remains in ongoing discussions with customers, government authorities, and other stakeholders and interested parties about customer agreements and the Company's interests in assets and facilities, which may be owned or leased from other parties that have interests and rights related to those facilities.
Our work to discontinue the use of PFAS across our product portfolio
As also noted, 3M has been working to discontinue the use of PFAS across its product portfolio and has made substantial progress in eliminating such use in the Company's products. With respect to PFAS-containing products not manufactured by 3M in the Company's supply chains, the Company continues to evaluate the availability and feasibility of adopting and incorporating third-party products into its product portfolio that do not contain PFAS. Depending on the availability and feasibility of such third-party products not containing PFAS, the Company continues to evaluate circumstances in which the use of PFAS-containing products manufactured by third parties and used in certain applications in 3M’s product portfolios will continue beyond the end of 2025. Examples of PFAS-containing third-party products include lithium ion batteries, printed circuit boards, certain seals and gaskets, and other products widely used in commerce across a variety of industries, and in some cases required by regulatory or industry standards. In certain cases, sales and use of products manufactured before the end of 2025, and sales of products through customer transitions to new products, regulatory approvals, or customer re-certifications or re-qualifications of substitutes or replacements to eliminate the use of PFAS, were not completed by the end of 2025 and transitional efforts are ongoing.
