Minnesota PFAS in products · Amara’s Law

The $800 filing fee is the easy part. The supplier data is the whole job.

Minnesota requires manufacturers to report intentionally added PFAS in products manufactured after July 1, 2023. The state charges one flat fee to receive your report. Everything expensive happens before that: working out what is even in scope, asking hundreds of suppliers a question most of them have never been asked, and being able to show what you did about the answers you never got.

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The next dates depend on extension status

Verified against the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s reporting page, retrieved 2026-09-01. The extension-request window has closed, and MPCA says it is processing requests. Sources are listed at the bottom of this page — check them yourself.

Initial report / denied extension

September 15, 2026

Initial PFAS in products reports are due. For a denied extension, the due date is 30 days after the denial notice or September 15, whichever is later.

Extension-holder waiver request

November 14, 2026

A manufacturer that received an extension and later decides to request a waiver should postmark the waiver request by this date.

Approved-extension report

December 14, 2026

Where MPCA grants an extension, the initial report is due by this date.

The scope narrowed in June 2026, and that is good news worth checking. A 2026 amendment excludes products manufactured before July 1, 2023. For a lot of portfolios, a meaningful share of the catalogue drops out on a date test alone — which is the cheapest work you will do all summer, and the first thing we run.

Why this is hard, and why it is hard late

As of MPCA’s June 15, 2026 announcement, the agency expected over 5,000 manufacturers to report. Over 700 companies had registered in the state’s PRISM system, and just over 30 had actually submitted. That gap is not procrastination. It is the supplier chase.

Your suppliers hold the answer

Intentionally added PFAS is a formulation and component question. It lives with the people who make your parts, coatings, membranes, seals, and inks — not in your PLM.

Silence is the common answer

Many suppliers will not respond, will respond incompletely, or will claim the information is confidential. Your report still has to say something, and what it says has to be defensible.

Effort is the record

What protects you is not certainty — it is a dated, complete record of who you asked, what you asked, what came back, and what remained unknown when you filed.

What the desk actually does

Runs the date test across your catalogue. Every product gets a manufacture-date screen against the July 1, 2023 cutoff and comes back date-needed, likely-excluded, or likely-in-scope — each result carrying the dated source it was screened against. The number you care about first is how much of the portfolio you can probably set down. The software applies the date test. It never draws the scope conclusion — that is recorded as a human determination, with an author, a date, and a stated basis, or it does not exist.

Runs the supplier chase without creating supplier accounts. Each supplier gets a single-use link to a page that asks only what you need for the components they actually supply. No portal, no password, no onboarding call — which is the entire reason response rates survive contact with reality. Unlimited links, never metered.

Ages the unknowns so they stop being invisible. Every open question carries the date it was asked, the date it was chased, and how long it has been sitting. An unknown that is thirty days old and twice chased is a different object from an unknown nobody ever asked about — and only one of them is a problem.

Builds the due-diligence record as a by-product. The export carries who was asked, when, what came back, what did not, and the retention stamp for Minnesota’s five-year records clock — which stays open-ended while you are still in the supply chain. You are not assembling this at the end. It accumulates while you work.

Assembles a customer-reviewable report-readiness workpaper. You get the portfolio position, source-linked fields, outreach evidence, unknowns register, PRISM-ready workpaper, and submission checklist in one place. You review and file it. We never touch PRISM and never hold your credentials.

Your determinations stay yours — on the record

Scope, intentionally-added, exemptions: those calls belong to you and your qualified reviewer or counsel, and CertEvidence records each one with its basis and its date — so the decision holds up later, whoever asks. Your PRISM credentials never touch our systems: your authorized person submits, we prepare the pack they submit. (Independent software — not affiliated with or endorsed by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.) The Minnesota lane is private and by conversation only — restricted chemistry data belongs on separate infrastructure with a named reviewer, not behind a credit-card form.

Pricing

Deadline work is priced as deadline work — a fixed fee for a defined outcome, not a meter that rewards us for going slowly. Scope is set on the first call from your product count, supplier count, and how many states you are already carrying.

Deadline Triage

$1,500fixed · paid in full

For a defined small batch: scope and product-family inventory, evidence-availability matrix, known / unknown / contradictory-data map, supplier priorities, and a report-readiness risk register. Credited toward Report-Ready if purchased within 10 days.

Report-Ready

From $7,500fixed · 50% deposit

The full run to a filing-ready position: scope determinations recorded, supplier chase worked to a closed or aged state, due-diligence record and export assembled. Banded by product and supplier count.

Continuing Unknowns Desk

Scoped lateronly after a paid rescue

If delivery confirms a repeatable monthly workflow, the continuing desk can maintain the supplier chase, age unknowns, screen new products, and keep the evidence record current.

What is not in that number: Minnesota’s own fees. The state charges a one-time initial reporting fee of $800 per manufacturer, paid by you directly to MPCA. We never quote, collect, or optimize government fees.

Engagements are invoiced, not card-checkout — this lane starts with a conversation by design. No applicability determination, legal opinion, final attestation, or regulator submission is included.

Start the conversation

Tell us roughly how many products and suppliers are in play, whether you have registered in PRISM yet, and whether an extension request was granted, denied, or is still pending. Every message gets a reply from [email protected]. No newsletter, no sequence. Please keep chemistry specifics and anything confidential out of a first message — that material belongs on the restricted plane, after paperwork, not in a web form.

Prefer email? [email protected] reaches the same person.

Sources

Every regulatory date and government fee on this page came from a primary source we retrieved on the date shown. If one of these changes and this page has not, tell us and we will fix it.

FACTDeadlines, fee, and scope cutoff — initial reports are due September 15, 2026; MPCA is processing extension requests; approved-extension reports are due December 14; denied-extension reports are due 30 days after the denial notice or September 15, whichever is later; extension recipients may postmark later waiver requests by November 14; the one-time initial reporting fee is $800 per manufacturer; products manufactured before July 1, 2023 are excluded. MPCA, Reporting PFAS in products — retrieved 2026-09-01.
FACTParticipation figures — MPCA expects over 5,000 manufacturers to report; over 700 companies registered in PRISM and over 30 reports submitted, as stated in the agency’s announcement dated June 15, 2026. MPCA news announcement — retrieved 2026-07-28. These figures are as of that date and have not been restated by the agency since.
FACTFive-year records retention — Minn. R. 7026.0080. The clock runs open-ended while the product remains in the supply chain.
NOTEThe June 2026 scope amendment is 2026 Minn. Laws ch. 127 — linked so you can verify. The date-test call is yours; the platform records it with its basis and date so it holds up later.