Minnesota dealers left with unsellable youth ATVs and dirt bikes because of PFAS ban

By Chloe Johnson | The Minnesota Star Tribune | January 9, 2025

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"Honda and Yamaha are telling dealers around Minnesota to pull some youth models of ATVs and dirt bikes from the sales floor because the vehicles contain illegal PFAS chemicals.

“Juvenile products” is one of the first 11 categories banned this year from containing toxic PFAS chemicals, under a law that Minnesota passed in 2023. Advocates for the ban, the most far-reaching of its kind among states, say that major manufacturers should have warned their dealers earlier that the prohibition would affect youth vehicles.

Some lawmakers are casting the situation as state overreach. They favor revising Amara’s Law, the product ban named for a Woodbury woman who grew up drinking PFAS-tainted water and died at 20 of a rare cancer. Though the ban is nine days old, it already faces challenges — earlier this week, major cookware manufacturers sued the state over it."

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