What is PFAS?
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl 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 vital 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 that treat COVID-19, 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 3M products that use PFAS*, as well as our innovation and reformulation efforts, view the document below.
3M PFAS in Products Supplemental Report (XLSX, 4.3 MB) - Last Updated: August 7, 2025
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. Additional information, including reformulation and discontinuation timeframes, may be added or updated periodically as the company works to discontinue the use of PFAS across its product portfolio by the end of 2025.
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 phase out of manufacturing PFOA and PFOS, and have done so worldwide.
In December 2022, 3M announced that it will exit all PFAS manufacturing and work to discontinue the use of PFAS across our product portfolio by the end of 2025. We have reduced our use of PFAS through ongoing research and development and will continue to seek to innovate new solutions for our customers.
Exit all PFAS manufacturing by the end of 2025
3M is progressing toward the exit of all PFAS manufacturing by the end of 2025. The Company continues to discuss its PFAS manufacturing exit, and related issues involving the disposition of manufacturing assets, with customers, government authorities, and other stakeholders, and the Company remains focused on completing the exit in a timely and orderly fashion.
Work to discontinue use of PFAS across our product portfolio by the end of 2025
3M is also working to discontinue the use of PFAS across its product portfolio by the end of 2025 and has made progress in eliminating the use of PFAS across its product portfolio in a variety of applications. 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 third-party products 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, such as lithium ion batteries, printed circuit boards and certain seals and gaskets, all widely used in commerce across a variety of industries, and in some cases required by regulatory or industry standards, may or are expected to, depending on applications, continue beyond 2025. In other cases, sales of products manufactured before the end of 2025, regulatory approval, or customer re-certification or re-qualification of substitutes or replacements to eliminate the use of PFAS manufactured by third parties may not be completed, or, depending on circumstances, are not expected to be completed, by the end of 2025. With respect to PFAS-containing products manufactured by third parties, the Company intends to continue to evaluate beyond the end of 2025 the adoption of third-party products that do not contain PFAS to the extent such products are available and such adoption is feasible.
