Everything we’ve checked

• The body wall is 0.4mm and the base is 2mm. The tri-ply is the base only, not the walls, so the sides are thin single-ply steel — that is a cooking-performance limitation, not a materials one, but it is what $139 buys. [1]
• “304” is asserted, not certified. No mill certificate, no test report, no third-party verification — which is true of every product Kogan sells. [1]
• Kogan does not make the obvious point in its own favour. There is no coating here, so there is nothing to flake, and the company never says so. [1]
• Its own 5-piece stainless sibling says only “stainless steel” with no grade at all — a disclosure gap inside one brand’s own range. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Ovela 9 Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set
2. Ovela 5 Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set — no grade stated

• Silence from Essteele is worth more than Baccarat’s claim. An uncoated steel pan qualifies as PFAS-free by construction; saying so is marketing, not information. [2]
• “MADE IN ITALY — Italian designed and manufactured”, stated plainly. Very few brands in this table say where the thing was made. [1]
• Lifetime warranty, oven to 260°C, genuinely dishwasher safe. [1]
• No third-party testing or certification published, which is true of every product in this Australian table. [1]
• Myer’s own listing for this set publishes no material information whatsoever — not the alloy, not the origin, not the warranty. Everything above comes from Essteele. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Essteele Per Vita 5 Piece Cookware Set
2. Baccarat iD3 stainless set — “Chemical free - free from PTFE, PFAS, PFOA, Lead and Cadmium”
3. Myer listing — no material information published

• Full-clad versus disc-base changes how evenly the sides heat. It is the reason for the price difference, and it appears nowhere in the retailer listing. [3]
• “MADE IN ITALY - Italian designed and manufactured”. Lifetime warranty. Oven to 260°C. “TRULY DISHWASHER SAFE”, which is their capitalisation. [1]
• No coating, so no PFAS question arises and Essteele makes no claim. Consistent with the rest of the range. [1]
• No third-party testing published. [1]
• Being cleared at 70% off RRP. Myer’s listed RRPs on this category run high — it shows Baccarat’s iD3 set at $1,129.99 RRP, above what Baccarat itself publishes. [2] [3]

Sources (3)

1. Essteele Per Amore clad 4 piece set
2. Myer — Essteele Per Amore 4 piece
3. Myer — Baccarat iD3 6 piece set, RRP $1,129.99

• Baccarat calls this a “LIFETIME GUARANTEE” and defines it on the same page as 25 years. A lifetime guarantee that expires is not one, and the contradiction sits in a single block of text. [1]
• Oven to 220°C without lids, 180°C with them — the lower figure implies a non-metal lid component that is never named. [1]
• “Made in China”, stated plainly. Very few brands in this table say where the thing was made. [1]
• No third-party testing published, and no AB 1200 filing exists for Baccarat — the brand does not appear in Defend Our Health’s index. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Baccarat iconiX 4 Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set
2. Defend Our Health — cookware materials disclosures index

• The Australian price is roughly four times the US price for the same skillet. Shop it — it varies a lot between Minimax, House, Everten and Amazon AU. [1]
• Lodge publishes a California AB 1200 disclosure listing the elements in seasoned cast iron. No Australian law required it; it exists because of a US state rule and it happens to be readable from here. [2]
• Same warranty caveat as everywhere: the lifetime cover excludes rust, pitting, sticky seasoning and flaking, which is most of what actually goes wrong. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Lodge cast iron skillet 26cm at Minimax
2. Lodge California AB 1200 materials disclosure

• The claim is “Chemical free - free from PTFE, PFAS, PFOA, Lead and Cadmium”. This is a bare stainless pan. It has no coating, so none of those were ever plausible — the claim rules out things that were never in it. Every uncoated steel pan on earth qualifies. [1]
• “Chemical free” is not a meaningful statement about an object made of metal. [1]
• The core of the impact-bonded base is not named. It is almost certainly aluminium, but they do not say. [1]
• No third-party testing published. [1]
• The lifetime guarantee is 25 years and excludes appliances and accessories. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Baccarat iD3 stainless frypan 30cm

• No third-party testing published. The claim rests on there being no coating to test, which is fair — but it is an argument from design, not a report. [1]
• Their own blog markets against Australia’s July 2025 PFAS ban as though it validates the product. That ban covers three substances — PFOA, PFOS and PFHxS. It does not cover PTFE, and it was never going to apply to an uncoated iron pan. The pan is fine; the framing is a stretch. [2]
• The “multi-century warranty” excludes the two things most likely to happen: “Induction warping and thermal shock is not covered”, and rust and seasoning problems are treated as maintenance. [3]
• $290 is a lot for an uncoated iron pan. You are paying for Australian manufacture and the seamless single-sheet build, not for better disclosure than a $25 Lodge. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Solidteknics AUS-ION 30cm frypan
2. Solidteknics blog on the Australian PFAS ban
3. Solidteknics warranty terms

• The grade matters. 304 and 430 behave differently, and the page gives you no way to know which you are buying. [1] [2]
• “Cooking Surface: Polished finish” is a finish, not a material. It sits in the field where the alloy belongs. [1]
• “Lid Material: Stainless steel + Glass” is properly split. The handle material is not stated anywhere. [1]
• Oven safe and dishwasher safe are both claimed with no temperature ceiling. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Ovela 5 Piece Stainless Steel Cookware Set
2. Ovela 9 Piece set, which does state 304

• The statutory filing discloses Aluminum, Chromium compounds, Nickel compounds, Iron and Manganese compounds in the substrate and handles, and states the Thermolon food-contact surface contains none of the listed chemicals. [2]
• Worth reading carefully: the Australian Thermolon page says flatly that “PFAS, Lead, Cadmium, etc., are not put into it”, while the same company’s AB 1200 disclosure lists Lead and Cadmium for GreenPan and GreenLife appliances. The Australian page draws no line between cookware and appliances, so the “etc.” and the itemised list point in opposite directions. [1] [2]
• “Independent testing by highly professional, accredited third-party labs” — the labs are never named and no report is published. Compliance is claimed against FDA 21 CFR 175.300, EC 1935/2004 and LFGB. [3]
• Country of manufacture is not published on either the Australian or the US site. [1] [3]

Sources (3)

1. GreenPan Australia — Thermolon explained
2. GreenPan California AB 1200 disclosure
3. GreenPan — safety of our product

• The seasoning is “Pre-seasoned with vegetable Oil” — a category, not a named oil. We dock Lodge the same point for “100% natural vegetable oil”, and Solidteknics earns back the point by naming rice bran. [1] [2]
• “2.5-3.00mm gauge heavy duty material” describes thickness, not composition. The steel grade is not published. [1]
• “Made in Taiwan” — worth noting against the Danish manufacture of the coated Classic line from the same brand. [1]
• “Handwash in hot water only - do not use dishwasher or dishwashing detergent”. That is the trade-off for bare steel, and it is honest. [1]
• No warranty published for this line, while the coated Classic range carries ten years. [1] [3]

Sources (3)

1. Scanpan Black Iron Carbon Steel Fry Pan 22cm
2. David Jones listing
3. Scanpan Classic Induction 20cm — 10 year warranty, coated line

• We checked the Australian enamel explainer, the material-choice guide and the care pages. The strongest statement anywhere is that the enamel “is completely hygienic and will not absorb odors or flavors”. No lead figure, no cadmium figure, no standard, no laboratory. [1] [2]
• Le Creuset’s California AB 1200 page is not a disclosure. It is one sentence pointing to an external product database: “Please click HERE to search specific product disclosures”. Every other brand in this table that has an AB 1200 obligation publishes the chemicals inline. [3]
• The 260°C oven ceiling is set by the knob, not the pot. Cast iron and enamel do not care; the phenolic does. The listing gives one number and does not separate the two. [1]
• Myer publishes nothing — not the word enamel, not France, not the warranty — on a $512 item. [4]
• The same brand gives French cast iron a lifetime warranty and Thai stoneware ten years. That gap is a materials-and-origin signal buried in a warranty field. [5]

Sources (5)

1. Le Creuset Australia — Signature 24cm round casserole
2. Le Creuset — sand and black satin enamel explainer
3. Le Creuset — California chemical disclosures for cookware
4. Myer — Le Creuset Signature 24cm casserole
5. Le Creuset Australia — stoneware mug, 10 year warranty, made in Thailand

• Target’s template has a dedicated materials field. On four products we checked it contains an internal SKU description instead of a material: “5PCE STONE GREY COOKSET”, “5PC S/S TRIPLY C/WARE”, “3PCE N/S COOKSET”, “12PC GLASS FOOD STORAGE”. [1] [2] [3] [4]
• Steel grade not published. No 304, no 430, no 18/10 anywhere. [1]
• Handle and lid materials not stated. [1]
• The $99 flagship has no published warranty, while Target’s $55 aluminium set carries twelve months. [1] [2]

Sources (4)

1. Target — Anko 5 Piece Stainless Steel Tri-Ply Cookware Set
2. Target — 5 Piece Cookware Set Stone Grey, materials field “5PCE STONE GREY COOKSET”
3. Target — Non-Stick Carbon Steel Cookware Set, materials field “3PCE N/S COOKSET”
4. Target — Anko Set of 12 Glass Food Storage, materials field “12PC GLASS FOOD STORAGE”

• They will name the trace elements in the iron you never eat off and not the composition of the glass you do. Nothing on lead, cadmium, heavy metals or testing appears anywhere. [2]
• Oven safe “up to 260°C with lid, without lid oven safe up to 482°C”. That 222-degree gap is the knob, and the Australian page never says what the knob is made of. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, lead or cadmium statement of any kind — not even the reassuring boilerplate most brands offer. [1]
• Zwilling owns Staub, so the “brand page” and the “distributor page” are the same company. There is no second source. [1]
• David Jones was unreachable to us — every product page returns a bot challenge rather than content — so the DJ price and listing wording could not be checked. The price above is Zwilling’s own. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Zwilling Australia — Staub Round Cocotte 24cm
2. Zwilling cookware FAQ — the iron is specified, the enamel is not
3. David Jones listing (page returns a bot challenge)

• Big W’s own Masterclass ceramic saucepan, same line, same colourway, same stated construction, carries no PFAS claim at all. Either the claim applies to the range and is missing there, or it does not and it is over-reaching here. Nothing published resolves it. [2]
• “Ceramic” names a family, not a chemistry. There is no sol-gel detail, no silica content, no binder. [1]
• No oven rating, despite a tempered glass lid and a silicone grip that both have temperature limits. [1]
• No warranty, no country of manufacture, no certifier for the PFAS-free claim. [1]
• Big W’s parent group does have a PFAS policy — POL.088, updated May 2025, listed by name on the supplier portal and hosted behind a supplier login. Its scope is unverifiable from outside. [3]

Sources (4)

1. Big W — Masterclass Ceramic Coated Frypan 30cm
2. Big W — Masterclass Ceramic Coated Saucepan 20cm, no PFAS claim
3. BIG W vendor portal — POL.088 PFAS Policy V2

• Stronger claim, same absence of evidence. No laboratory, no standard, no report backs “free from PFAS, PFOA, lead and cadmium”. It is Kogan’s word. [1]
• The actual ceramic system is not named — no sol-gel, no silica, no binder. “Ceramic” is where the disclosure stops. [1]
• Oven safe to 280°C, dishwasher safe, induction compatible, all stated clearly. [1]
• The green colourway of the identical set sells for $10 less on the same site. Same spec, different price. [2]
• Kogan’s Ovela cookware makes PFAS-class claims while Kogan’s own-brand air fryers make no chemical claim at all. Two standards, one company. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Ovela 9 Piece Ceramic Cookware Set with Utensils
2. Ovela 9 Piece Ceramic Set, green — identical spec, $10 less
3. Kogan 10L Dual Zone Air Fryer — no chemical claim of any kind

• Still unsubstantiated. No lab, no standard, no report — and PFAS-free is a much harder claim to stand behind than PFOA-free. [1]
• “Granite” is a finish name. There is no granite in the pan. The title says granite, the spec field says ceramic, and they are the same layer under two names. [1]
• No oven rating published, and the handles are bakelite — which almost certainly means it is not oven safe. The page is silent rather than saying so. [1]
• Kogan’s own Ovela Moderno set, same brand and category, says only “Non-stick” and makes no chemical claim whatsoever. Do not let one SKU’s claim carry to another. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Ovela 5 Piece Granite Non-Stick Induction Cookware Set
2. Ovela Moderno 4 Piece set — no chemical claim at all

• Not one premium enamelled-cast-iron brand sold in Australia publishes leach test results. Chasseur, Le Creuset, Staub and Falcon are all silent, at every price from $80 to $870. [1] [2]
• The 220°C / 250°C oven split is set by the knob, not the pot. Black knob 220°C, stainless knob 250°C — and the black knob’s material is not stated. [1]
• The care page permits dishwasher use; the product page advises against it. Both are Chasseur’s. [1] [3]
• Price sanity check: Myer lists this line at $869 while Chasseur Australia sells the same family direct at $329 against a $549 RRP. Treat Myer RRPs in this category as promotional. [4]
• Separately, Chasseur’s enamel-on-steel range carries NO origin statement at all. The French provenance is stated for the cast iron only, and shoppers will read it across. [5]

Sources (5)

1. Chasseur Australia — Round French Oven
2. Chasseur — the cast iron advantage
3. Chasseur — manufacturing history
4. Myer listing at $869
5. Chasseur enamelled steel range — no origin stated

• That admission is on a corporate explainer page. The product page carries only the three noughts. A shopper reading the listing alone would conclude the pan is fluorochemical-free; it is not, and Tefal says so two clicks away. [1] [2]
• “Infused with titanium” describes a hardness reinforcement in a fluoropolymer matrix, not a titanium surface. [1]
• Body, handle and lid are all named stainless — genuinely good, and the reason this scores above the hard-anodised set in the same range. [1]
• Tefal does maintain an AB 1200 disclosure and Defend Our Health records it as disclosing PFAS. Country of manufacture is not published for this line. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Tefal Australia — Jamie Oliver Cook's Classic All-In-One Pan 30cm
2. Tefal — “Our non-stick coating contains PTFE, which is a specific type of PFAS”
3. Defend Our Health — cookware materials disclosures index

• “PFOA-free” excludes a substance restricted under the Stockholm Convention since 2020. It is true of essentially every compliant pan on earth and tells you nothing about PTFE or other PFAS. [1]
• The description contains the words “crafted for crafted for versatility”. Unedited supplier copy, which is exactly the process that leaves materials fields blank elsewhere in the range. [1]
• Kmart appears to list the same product twice under two SKUs, with the second carrying a different title and description. [2]
• Stainless handle named, no grade. Exterior not described. No warranty on the page, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing — true of every Kmart product we checked. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 28cm Green Ceramic Non-Stick Frypan
2. Kmart — 28cm Ceramic Non-Stick Frypan Green, apparent duplicate SKU

• “PFOA-free, heat-resistant surface” — heat-resistant to what? No temperature is given anywhere on the page. [1]
• No lid is listed for a saucepan, so there is no lid material question, which is one way to score well. [1]
• No warranty, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]
• Compare Kmart’s 2-pack of “Ceramic Coated Non-Stick Fry Pans” at $12, where the word ceramic appears in the title and then never again in the body — the description calls the surface only “the durable non-stick coating”. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 16cm Ceramic Non-Stick Saucepan Blue
2. Kmart — 2 Pack Ceramic Coated Non-Stick Fry Pans

• Correction worth knowing: Alex Liddy is not Myer’s house brand. It belongs to Global Retail Brands — the House, MyHouse and Robins Kitchen group, the same stable as Baccarat and Salt&Pepper. Myer merely stocks it. [2]
• alexliddy.com.au publishes no product, material or company information whatsoever. The only place the material appears is the parent group’s own retail site. [2]
• “Made in China”, stated plainly, which is more than most. [1]
• No warranty published. No lead or cadmium statement. No third-party testing. [1]

Sources (2)

1. House (Global Retail Brands) — Alex Liddy Classic Round Casserole
2. Alex Liddy brand site — no product or material information

• Scanpan’s California disclosure names Stratanium explicitly and lists “Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)”, “Polytetrafluoroethylene” and FEP-type copolymers, plus a Proposition 65 warning: “Some Scanpan products may expose you to chemicals including Tetrafluoroethylene which are known to the State of California to cause cancer”. [2]
• Australian buyers see the marketing. Californian buyers see the cancer warning. Same coating, same company, and the difference is that California has a disclosure law and Australia does not. [1] [2]
• Scanpan does sell a genuinely PFAS-free line — LEAP, a sol-gel ceramic. The Classic Induction sold here is not it, and the two are easy to confuse by name. [3]
• We score the AB 1200 declaration as a statutory materials filing, not as third-party testing: no laboratory is named and no report is published. [2]
• Ten-year warranty, oven to 250°C, made in Denmark, metal-utensil safe. All of that is real and none of it is the question. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Scanpan Australia — Classic Induction Frypan 20cm
2. Scanpan California Consumer Right to Know Disclosure
3. Scanpan FAQ — “our non-stick coatings do contain PTFE”

• Sister brand Anolon does exactly the same thing: “PFOA-free” on the Australian page, “contains intentionally added PFAS” on its own disclosure site. Both are Meyer Group, as are Raco and Essteele. [2]
• The durability claim is “130x longer-lasting than competition” and “350,000 scrapes without scratches”. No laboratory is named and no standard is cited for either figure. [1]
• Country of manufacture not published. [1]
• Myer’s listing for this pan publishes no material information at all. Across fifteen Myer product pages, from $10 containers to a $799 oven, we found no description, specification or material text — the content is rendered client-side and is not in the page. Myer is a price source, not an information source. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Circulon Australia — ScratchDefense A1 skillet 25.4cm
2. Circulon AB 1200 disclosure — “contains intentionally added PFAS”
3. Myer — Circulon ScratchDefense A1 frypan

• Four Meyer Group brands are sold in Australia — Anolon, Circulon, Raco and Essteele. Not one of them names PTFE on an Australian page. The group’s own US disclosure sites confirm PTFE, FEP and PFA are intentionally added. [2] [3]
• “Twice as strong as stainless steel” is unsourced. [1]
• Phenolic SureGrip handle named. Country of manufacture not published. [1]
• Myer’s brand blurb — “Anolon, having invented the first hard-anodised non-stick cookware, represents the pinnacle of cookware development” — is the only material-adjacent text Myer publishes about this brand anywhere. [4]

Sources (4)

1. Anolon Australia — Endurance+ French Skillet 28cm
2. Anolon AB 1200 disclosure — “contains intentionally added PFAS”
3. Circulon AB 1200 disclosure, same group
4. Myer — Anolon brand page

• Maxwell & Williams nowhere states where this casserole is cast, enamelled or assembled. A shopper reading the collection page will conclude Australian manufacture from a sentence that only claims Australian ore. We do not score ore as origin. [1] [2]
• Handle and knob materials are not published. The lid is described by its condensation nodules, not its material. [1]
• “Food-safe” is asserted and never evidenced. No standard, no lab, no test. [1]
• Warranty and oven temperature are behind accordions that do not render on the maker’s own page. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Maxwell & Williams — Cast Iron Round Casserole 26cm
2. Myer listing

• Nothing backs it. No lab, no certificate, no test method — and a PFAS-free claim is much harder to stand behind than a PFOA-free one. [1]
• Now compare its own sibling. The plain Easycook non-stick frypan, $4 more expensive, in the same range, on the same site, offers only “PFOA-free non-stick” with no chemistry and no supplier. The gap between the two listings is Wiltshire telling you by omission what the other one is. [2]
• Handle material and exterior coating are not published. [1]
• “Do not use cookware in an oven, microwave oven, under a grill or on an open campfire.” A stovetop-only pan, stated plainly. Five-year guarantee. Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Wiltshire Easycook Ceramic Non-Stick Frypan 26cm
2. Wiltshire Easycook Non-Stick Frypan 26cm — “PFOA-free”, no chemistry

• A brand’s provenance does not transfer between its ranges, and this is the clearest case of it in the table. The cast iron is French since 1924; the enamelled steel says nothing. [1] [2]
• Steel grade and gauge not published. Handle, knob and lid materials not published. [1]
• No enamel composition, no lead or cadmium statement, no third-party testing. [1]
• No warranty, oven rating or dishwasher guidance published for this range. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Chasseur Australia — enamelled steel range
2. Chasseur — manufacturing history, which is about the cast iron

• “TITANIUM” is a coating trade name, not titanium metal. It describes a hardness reinforcement in a fluoropolymer matrix. [1]
• Tefal publishes the best testing language in this table and still names nobody: “Tefal non-stick coated cookware products are subject to very regular analyses carried out by independent laboratories”. No laboratory, no method, no report, no date. [2]
• The same spec sheet says dishwasher “YES” and then recommends hand washing only, to extend the life of the coating. [1]
• “Designed and manufactured in France”, which is a real origin statement and rarer than it should be. [1]
• Myer publishes none of this. Its listing carries a price, a colour and a star rating. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Tefal Unlimited range
2. Tefal cookware commitments — its published PTFE position
3. Myer — Tefal Unlimited twin pack

• No PFAS, PFOA or PTFE claim at all — not even PFOA-free. Notable, because the sister Granite range from the same company does make a PFOA claim. Same brand, same category, inconsistent disclosure. [1] [2]
• The range page says only “As durable as a rock” and carries no technical content whatsoever. [3]
• “700,000 cycles” is given with no test method and no comparator. [1]
• “Made in China”, stated. Oven to 220°C. The “LIFETIME GUARANTEE” is defined as 25 years on the same page. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Baccarat Rock 4 Piece Non-Stick Cookware Set
2. Baccarat Granite 4 Piece set — “PFOA pollution free”
3. Baccarat Rock range page

• “Bakelite handle” is named, which is more than most. Bakelite is phenol formaldehyde resin; the page does not say so, but naming the material at all puts it ahead of Kmart’s own $8 jumbo frypan, whose specification block contains no material field and does not state the base metal either. [1] [2]
• Not compatible with induction, indoor use only, twelve-month warranty. [1]
• No PFAS or PTFE statement anywhere. Across every Kmart page we checked, product and corporate, the word PFAS appears zero times. [1]
• Country of manufacture not stated, as on all 28 Kmart products we looked at. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 28cm Aluminium Non-Stick Frypan
2. Kmart — 30cm Non-Stick Jumbo Frypan, no material field at all

• The group pattern is strong enough to be worth knowing and not strong enough to score. Four Meyer Group brands in Australia, not one names PTFE locally; two of them admit it in US filings. [2] [3]
• Raco’s Minerale line goes further in wording and no further in substance: “PFOA, Lead and Cadmium Free Nonstick”, “reinforced with hard mineral particles”, “Designed and made in Italy”. Three exclusions, still no PTFE or PFAS statement. [4]
• Data hygiene warning: raco.com.au served a different product under a Contemporary 24cm URL — a Minerale 30cm. Do not scrape that site unattended. [4]
• Phenolic handle named. Country of manufacture not published for the Contemporary line. Limited lifetime warranty, oven to 200°C. [1]

Sources (4)

1. Raco Contemporary Nonstick Induction Frypan
2. Circulon AB 1200 disclosure, same group
3. Anolon AB 1200 disclosure, same group
4. Raco Minerale frypan — the fuller claim wording

• The one product where an Australian retailer names a cookware coating, names something that cannot be the coating. We score the food-contact surface as unstated, because what is stated is not it. [1]
• The handle is listed twice with two different materials: “Handle: Thermoplastic rubber (TPR)” in the materials field, and “Soft touch silicone coated bakelite handle” in the features. TPR, silicone and bakelite are three different things. [1]
• “Body: Forged looking aluminium”. The page concedes in its own materials field that the forged appearance is cosmetic. [1]
• “Exterior: Heat-resistant paint” is a second undisclosed coating, named by function. [1]
• “PFOA-free coating” is the chemical claim. No PFAS or PTFE statement. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Target — Anko Non-Stick Frypan Linear 32cm

• “Oven safe” is claimed with no maximum temperature, on a coating whose composition is undisclosed. The number that would make the claim useful is the one missing. [1] [2]
• “PFOA-free” is the whole chemical statement. [1]
• Sold under the same Anko brand at both Kmart and Target. Target Australia’s own-brand kitchenware is Anko — both are Wesfarmers’ Kmart Group, so the two shopfronts are one supplier. [3]
• Stainless handle named, no grade. No warranty on the Kmart page, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (3)

1. Kmart — 24cm Hard Anodised Non-Stick Frypan
2. Kmart — 32cm Hard Anodised Frypan, materials field omits the coatings
3. Kmart Group Ethical Sourcing Code — “Kmart Australia, Target Australia and Anko Global”

• Kmart uses the word “stone” two different ways in one aisle. Here it is a coating description. On the $62 five-piece set it is a colour: “Colour: Stone grey”. Neither set names the actual coating. [2]
• That $62 set is stranger still — it never says it is non-stick, never names a coating, lists only aluminium and tempered glass, and then claims “this PFOA-free design”. A PFOA-free claim is only meaningful about a coating the page will not admit exists. [2]
• “Making oil and butter-free cooking possible” is a health framing resting on an unnamed release surface. [1]
• Glass lids, type not stated. Soft-touch bakelite handles, named. No warranty on the page, no country of manufacture. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 5 Piece Cookware Set
2. Kmart — 5 Piece Cookware Set Stone Grey

• “Granite” is a marketing texture name. There is no granite in the pan and the coating chemistry is never published. [1]
• Tempered glass lids are named. Handle material is not published on this page. [1]
• “Made in China”, stated. The “LIFETIME GUARANTEE” is 25 years. [1]
• No oven rating published for this set, and no AB 1200 filing exists for the brand. [1] [2]

Sources (2)

1. Baccarat Granite 4 Piece Cookware Set
2. Defend Our Health — cookware materials disclosures index

• The coating supplier is named — ILAG, a Swiss coatings maker — and the line is named. Neither tells you the chemistry, and ILAG’s Maximising Green is not stated to be ceramic. [1]
• “PFOA-free” is the only chemical claim. No PFAS or PTFE statement. Compare the sibling Easycook Ceramic at $45, which excludes PFAS, PFOA, PFOS and PTFE by name. [2]
• 90% recycled aluminium is a real and checkable claim about the body. It is also the part nobody was worried about. [1]
• Glass lids named; handle material not published. Not oven safe. Five-year guarantee. Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Wiltshire Eco Cookware 3 Piece Set
2. Wiltshire Easycook Ceramic Frypan — the fuller exclusion

• The health framing is “The end result, healthier cooking!” That rests entirely on using less oil, and it is attached to a coating whose composition the brand declines to state. [1]
• Solid stainless steel handles are named. Lid materials are not. [1]
• The sibling Tan-ium range has the same Durapan coating and a name that reads as titanium — which the brand never claims is in it. The name is doing work the disclosure does not support. [2]
• Country, warranty, oven rating and dishwasher guidance: none published. Salt&Pepper product pages do not render at all; this comes from the collection page. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Salt&Pepper Re-lite collection
2. Salt&Pepper Tan-ium collection

• The product name describes the body. The food-contact surface is something else, and the listing does not flag the difference. [1]
• “PFOA free” is the chemical claim, which is itself a tell: you do not need a PFOA claim on bare stainless. [1]
• “Stay cool riveted long handle” — material not published. [1]
• Compare the Anko Tri-Ply set at $99, which genuinely does have an uncoated stainless cooking surface and says so. Same brand, same shop, opposite answer. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Target — Anko Stainless Steel Frypan 28cm
2. Target — Anko 5 Piece Tri-Ply Stainless set

• “Stone” is a finish descriptor. There is no stone in the pan, and no chemistry is named anywhere on the page. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement — unlike the ceramic sibling at $29, which claims PFAS-free. [1] [2]
• Handle material, country of manufacture, warranty, oven rating and dishwasher guidance: none published. [1]
• Big W’s own worst case is the Masterclass 5-piece set at $62, whose entire description is that the pieces are “durable, pieces designed for long lasting use” — mangled comma included — with no material named for any of the five. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Big W — Masterclass Non-Stick Frying Pan 30cm Stone
2. Big W — Masterclass Ceramic Coated Frypan 30cm, which claims PFAS-Free
3. Big W — Masterclass Cookware Set 5 Piece, no materials at all

• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA statement. Not a weaker claim — no claim. [1]
• “Ergonomic handle with hanging hole” — material not published. [1]
• No warranty, no oven rating, no dishwasher guidance, no country of manufacture. The page gives cooktop compatibility and nothing else. [1]
• Big W’s house brands disclose less than the branded goods on the same shelf. Circulon’s listing at Big W says “PFOA free” in the product title; Brilliant Basics says only “non-stick”. The house brand is the disclosure floor. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Big W — Brilliant Basics Non-Stick Frypan 28cm

• “Oven Safe” with no temperature limit — the only number that makes an oven claim useful on a coated pan. [1]
• No steel grade: no 18/10, no 304, no 430. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA or PTFE statement. [1]
• Handles, country of manufacture, warranty and dishwasher guidance: none published. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Big W — Masterclass Tri-Ply Hybrid Non-Stick Frypan Set

• “Never use cookware on high heat” is an odd instruction for carbon steel, which is prized for high-heat searing. It reads like a coating temperature limit attached to a coating nobody will name. [1]
• The specification block has no material field. The word carbon steel appears only in the title. [1]
• Target sells what appears to be the same set for $60 with the materials field filled in as “3PCE N/S COOKSET” — a product code where a material belongs — and with the same induction contradiction. [2]
• Glass lids, type not stated. Handles not described. Twelve-month warranty, country of manufacture not stated. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 3 Piece Non-Stick Carbon Steel Cookware Set
2. Target — Non-Stick Carbon Steel Cookware Set, materials field “3PCE N/S COOKSET”

• A lifetime warranty on a coating that cannot go above 180°C is an odd pairing, and the page does not explain the limit. [1]
• “Soft-touch” handles — the soft-touch material is not published. Bakelite, silicone or something else is not stated. [1]
• “Superb abrasion resistance” is asserted with no test method. [1]
• No PFAS or PTFE statement, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Pyrolux Pyrostone Fry Pan 20cm

• This is the cleanest house-brand case in the table. A department store sells its own cookware and there is no manufacturer document in existence to read. [2]
• Handle, lid and country of manufacture: none published. No warranty, no oven rating, no dishwasher guidance. [1]
• Its stablemate, the Cooks Collective cast iron sauté, scores zero — Myer gives “cast iron” and a colour, and no material fact exists anywhere for the enamel, the handle or the knob. [3]
• Correction worth noting: Alex Liddy is often assumed to be Myer’s house brand and is not. The Cooks Collective is. [2]

Sources (3)

1. Myer — The Cooks Collective Cast Aluminium Non-Stick 10 Piece Cook Set
2. The only web presence for the brand — a cooking-school page
3. Myer — The Cooks Collective Cast Iron Sauté 28cm

• No PFAS, PTFE, lead or cadmium statement — unlike the Easycook Ceramic from the same maker, which excludes all four by name. [2]
• “Stay cool” handle — material not published. [1]
• Not oven safe: “Do not use cookware in an oven, microwave oven, under a grill or on an open camp fire.” [1]
• Five-year guarantee. Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Wiltshire Cucina Induction Non-Stick Frypan 20cm
2. Wiltshire Easycook Ceramic Frypan 26cm

• Two saucepans, a casserole and two frypans. Not one material named — not the metal, not the coating, not the handles, not the “glass lid” type. [1]
• “Dishwasher safe” and induction compatibility are both stated. Composition is not. [1]
• No PFAS, PFOA, PTFE or BPA claim, no warranty, no country of manufacture, no testing. [1]
• Big W’s Masterclass stainless 3-piece at $39 does slightly better, naming stainless steel and glass — but no grade, no clad construction, no handle material. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Big W — Masterclass Cookware Set 5 Piece
2. Big W — Masterclass Stainless Steel Cookware Set 3 Piece

• There is no brand website. The only web presence is a Perth cooking-school page that contains no statement about cookware, coatings or manufacture. [2]
• No enamel composition, no lead or cadmium statement, no handle or knob material, no country, no warranty, no oven rating. [1]
• A score of zero means we looked and found nothing published — not that the pan is bad. It may be perfectly good. Nobody will say what it is. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Myer — The Cooks Collective Cast Iron Sauté with Lid 28cm
2. The only web presence for the brand

• 18/8 is stated; 304 is not, though the two are equivalent designations. A small gap in an otherwise complete disclosure. [1]
• No seal, and they say so: “This product is not leak proof. We recommend packing dry foods only.” Honest, and it means no silicone question arises at all. [1]
• An optional snap-on plastic cover is sold separately with no resin named. It is not part of this product. [1]
• Country of manufacture and warranty terms are not published on the product page. [1]

Sources (1)

1. LunchBots Large Cinco

• The claims are “independently tested to meet FDA food safety standards” for the steel and “independently tested and LFGB certified” for the silicone. Standards are named; the laboratory is not, and no report is published. That is why testing scores 2 and not 3. [1]
• There is no warranty at all. Their returns policy says: “As a small business, we cannot accept returns or exchanges for change of mind”, and no defect warranty is offered anywhere on the site. [1]
• “Pure food grade silicone” is the phrase we dock everyone for, and we are not making an exception here. Food grade is not a certification — no agency issues it. The LFGB claim is the substantive one; “food grade” adds nothing. [1]
• “BPA Free” on stainless steel and silicone rules out a molecule that was never plausible in either material. True, and costless. [1]
• Do not confuse this brand with Nude Food Movers, which is a different company and discloses considerably less.
• $95 is the top of this market. You are paying for the disclosure and the five compartments.

Sources (1)

1. Nudie Rudie stainless steel lunch box

• Ever Eco’s own FAQ says its bento boxes have no seal, because “they would require a plastic/silicone seal in the lid, however we chose to keep them 100% stainless steel”. This product page sells a silicone lid seal. Both are Ever Eco’s. [1] [2]
• Its own 1400ml bento cites a different standard for the same component — “FDA grade silicone” rather than LFGB. Same brand, same part, two standards, neither with a certificate. [3]
• “Plastic free” sits awkwardly next to a silicone seal and an unnamed lid. [1]
• Cure type not stated. Country given only at brand level in the FAQ — “China, India and Indonesia” — not per product. [1] [2]

Sources (3)

1. Ever Eco 5 Compartment Stainless Steel Bento Box
2. Ever Eco FAQ — “we chose to keep them 100% stainless steel”
3. Ever Eco Bento Box 1400ml — “FDA grade silicone seal”

• We chased the LFGB page. It defines LFGB generically — “a premium grade of silicone that has passed LFGB testing standards” — and names no lab, no certificate number, no standard number and no product list. Treat it as marketing copy, not evidence. [2]
• “100% plastic-free” is hard to square with the silicone-lidded pots sold as part of the same system. [1]
• “No microplastics” is an unfalsifiable claim with no test behind it. [1]
• Seed & Sprout’s wider range does make the broadest chemical exclusion we found anywhere — BPA, phthalates, cadmium, mercury, PVC, dioxin, GenX, PFAS, and the D4 and D5 siloxanes. It is the only brand in this table that names siloxanes at all. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Seed & Sprout CrunchBox OG Lunch Box
2. Seed & Sprout LFGB silicone page — an explainer, not a certificate
3. Seed & Sprout product FAQ — the full exclusion list

• Silicone seals are named as silicone and nothing more — no cure type, no LFGB, no EC 1935/2004. [1]
• The product page says “Dishwasher Safety Tested for Top Rack”; the FAQ says stainless items are “hand washed only”. Two Yumbox pages, two answers. [1] [2]
• “CPSIA and FDA compliant” is self-declared. No certificate, no lab. [2]
• Yumbox does not state a country. Biome states “Made in China” — a retailer claim we could not verify against the maker. [1] [3]

Sources (3)

1. Yumbox Prêt stainless steel bento
2. Yumbox FAQ — hand wash only for stainless
3. Biome — Yumbox Prêt, “Made in China”

• The lid material is still not published, and it is the part that sits over the food. [1]
• No certification, no country of manufacture, no warranty on the product page. [1]
• Compare its sealed siblings, where “plastic free” runs alongside a silicone seal and Ever Eco’s own FAQ claims there is no seal at all. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Ever Eco Bento Snack Box 3 Compartment
2. Ever Eco FAQ

• The included knife and fork have no material stated. They are food-contact items in a product whose entire selling point is glass. [1]
• No seal or gasket material is listed, despite an “air and water tight” claim. [1]
• Borosilicate is chosen for thermal-shock resistance, and the care note then imposes a limit: “do not place it in a pre heated oven above 120 deg. C”. No oven rating is given anywhere else on the page. [1]
• Target lists the same product with dimensions of “21.2cm (H) x 16cm (W) x 7.5cm (D)”. A 21cm-tall lunchbox is implausible; height and depth appear transposed. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — Glass Bento Lunch Box with Cutlery
2. Target — Anko Glass Bento Lunch Box with Cutlery

• We score the grade as unspecified, because two Australian retailers publish different specifications for one SKU and the manufacturer publishes none. [1] [2]
• Marketed as leakproof and airtight, with no gasket material named by either retailer. [1] [2]
• Officeworks says “Microwave Safe: No”. Big W says top-rack dishwasher safe with hand washing recommended. Twelve-month warranty per Big W. [1] [2]
• No country of manufacture and no certification from any source. [1] [2]

Sources (2)

1. Big W — Smash Stainless Steel 5 Compartment Bento 1.4L
2. Officeworks — the same SKU, “Tritan Lid”, no grade

• BPA is a plastic monomer. If the product were genuinely 100% plastic-free, certifying it BPA-free would be meaningless — you do not BPA-test a stainless and ceramic object. One of those two statements is doing dishonest work, and a leak-resistant modular box almost certainly has elastomer seals. [1]
• “FDA & EU approved safe” is not a certification. The FDA does not approve lunchboxes; it sets food-contact material requirements. No standard number, no notified body, no lab, no certificate. [1]
• “Leak resistant” is the only description of the seals. Their material is not given. [1]
• Country of manufacture not stated. Hand wash only. [1]

Sources (1)

1. frank green 3 Tier Insulated Bento Box

• “BPA free” on polypropylene. PP never contained BPA — BPA is a polycarbonate and epoxy monomer — so the claim is true and uninformative, and it says nothing about BPS or BPF. [1]
• The silicone has no grade, no cure type and no standard. “Silicone” is the whole of it. [1]
• “Microwave, dishwasher and freezer safe” appears unqualified, then the care text requires opening the lid before reheating. The lid is not fully microwave rated and the bullet does not say so. [1]
• Compare Big W’s K-D Hard Square Bento at $8, which names no material at all and claims “No added BPA”. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 1.6L Plastic Bento Box
2. Big W — K-D Hard Square Bento 1.6L

• The body is “Silicone and polypropylene (PP)” without saying which part is which — presumably the collapsible walls are silicone and the rigid frame is PP, but the page does not say. [1]
• No grade, cure type or standard for the silicone, and no grade for the PP. [1]
• “BPA free”, which on PP and silicone is true by construction. [1]
• No warranty, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing — consistent with every Kmart product we checked. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Kmart — Collapsible Bento Lunch Box

• “Partly plant-based” is the environmental headline and the undisclosed remainder is conventional PP. A 5% filler and a 50% filler would both be described this way. [1]
• Three food-contact components — two removable trays and a snack pot — and the lid and pot materials are not separately stated. [1]
• “BPA free” on polypropylene, which never contained it. [1]
• No warranty, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Kmart — Wheat Straw Bento Snack Box

• The claim is “BPA-, phthalate-, and PVC-free”. Three exclusions, and nothing about PFAS — which is notable, because b.box’s US listings do claim PFAS-free while its Australian pages do not. [1]
• Which part is the PP and which is the silicone is not published. Lid, clips and the included ice pack contents are all unstated. [1]
• No third-party testing. The claims rest on material type rather than on any test report or certification. [1]
• Country of manufacture not published. No warranty. Myer’s listing carries no material, BPA, PVC or phthalate statement at all on a children’s product. [2]

Sources (2)

1. b.box — non-toxic lunch box guide (US site)
2. Myer — b.box Lunchbox

• Tritan is marketed as BPA-free by design, so the “BPA & Phthalate-free” claim is consistent — but it says nothing about the other bisphenol analogues used as substitutes. [1]
• “Silicone seal system” — named, with no cure type and no standard body. [1]
• No certification mentioned, no country of manufacture, no warranty on the product page. [1]
• “Dishwasher safe (top shelf)*” — the asterisk points to conditions that are not shown on the page. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Munchbox Maxi6

• The combined materials line is “18/8 304 grade stainless steel, food grade plastic & silicone” — three materials, one of them a real specification and one of them a placeholder. [1]
• The silicone gasket is removable and named as silicone. Cure type not stated, no standard body cited. [1]
• “FDA, CPSIA, CPSA compliant” is self-declared with no certificate or lab published. [1]
• Leakproof only “for up to 1 teaspoon liquid”, which is an unusually honest limit. One year limited warranty. Country not published. [1]

Sources (1)

1. OmieBox insulated bento

• Marketed as leakproof, and the same page says “Do not pack water or watery food. Yumbox does not hold water.” [1]
• The seal is described elsewhere as a “precision silicone seal” — named, no grade, no standard. [1]
• “FDA and CPSIA compliant” is self-declared. No certificate, no lab. [1]
• One year warranty. Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Yumbox Tapas 5 compartment

• “PP and silicone” is a material family, not a specification. No food-contact standard is named for the polypropylene and no grade for the silicone. [1]
• No country of manufacture stated anywhere we could find. b.box describes itself as “an award-winning, Australian-owned company” — ownership is not manufacture. [1]
• No third-party testing, no certification, no laboratory named. [1]
• The six-month guarantee excludes “rips, spills, scratches, chips, mould, fading, stains and odour” — which covers essentially every way a child’s lunchbox fails. [1]
• Cheap, widely stocked and genuinely popular. The score is about disclosure, not whether your kid will like it.

Sources (1)

1. b.box Bento lunch box at Hello Green

• “Made in New Zealand” — and this is the ONLY product in the entire lunchbox category, from any brand, that states a country of manufacture on the maker’s own product page. [1]
• The range page carries a “BPA-free” claim. The individual product page carries no BPA claim at all. Category-level claim, product-level silence. [1] [2]
• Gasket material not published, on a product with a “seal-tight screw-top lid”. [1]
• The care guidance is the best-documented in this category: top-rack dishwasher, microwave without the lid, freezer safe, and an explicit list of what not to do — no conventional oven, hot plate, grill, stovetop or convection microwave. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Sistema Australia — 1.25L Bento Cube with Yogurt Pot
2. Sistema Australia — lunch range page

• We score the maker, so the resin is unstated. But the retailer’s breakdown is worth knowing, and it should not have to come from a shop. [1] [2]
• Bentgo is the only brand in this category making a PFAS-free claim, and it names no test method, lab or standard behind it. BPS and BPF are not excluded. [1]
• The same retailer adds “FDA-approved, food-safe materials”. The FDA does not approve food-contact materials, so that line is simply wrong. [2]
• Best care disclosure of the plastic group: tray freezer safe, microwave safe, top-shelf dishwasher; hand wash the outer shell. Warranty one to two years. Country not published. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Bentgo Kids Lunch Box
2. Hello Green — the ABS / TPE / PP breakdown

• No grade, no cure type, no “food grade” qualifier, no LFGB or FDA reference. Just the word silicone. [1]
• “BPA free” on a silicone product. BPA is a polycarbonate and epoxy monomer; silicone never contained it. The claim is attached to the material where it cannot apply, and withheld from the lid where it might. [1]
• “Do not reheat food for more than 2 minutes at a time” on the Target listing, with no reason given. [2]
• Big W’s K-D Silicone Bento at $8 is the same story: silicone in the product name, no grade, and a “Removable Lid” whose material is not published. Its care text is also truncated mid-sentence on the live page. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Kmart — Blue Silicone Bento Lunch Box
2. Target — Anko Lilac Silicone Bento Lunch Box
3. Big W — K-D Silicone Bento Box

• No BPA claim at all, while its sibling K-D hard bento claims “No added BPA”. Two children’s products, one range, two different standards of claim. [2]
• The care text contradicts itself: “Dishwasher and microwave safe” in one breath and “For reheating only and not suitable for cooking” in the next, with no temperature ceiling given. [1]
• That care sentence is truncated mid-clause on the live page: “Do not use sharp utensils to cut directly in this”. [1]
• No certification, no country of manufacture, no warranty. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Big W — K-D Silicone Bento Box
2. Big W — K-D Hard Square Bento 1.6L, “No added BPA”

• Kmart’s equivalent at $6 names two materials. Big W’s at $8 names none. [2]
• Lid, seal and clips: all unstated. [1]
• “Dishwasher safe. Not suitable for microwaves.” No reason given, on an unnamed polymer. [1]
• No third-party testing, no country of manufacture, no warranty. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Big W — K-D Hard Square Bento 1.6L
2. Kmart — 1.6L Plastic Bento Box, two materials named

• Décor maintains an “Australian Made” section elsewhere on its own site and does not apply it to this product. Do not assume Australian manufacture. [1]
• Microwave safe and top-rack dishwasher safe are claimed for an unnamed polymer. [1]
• No certification, no country, no warranty. [1]
• Compare Décor’s own Premium Glass Clips container, which names borosilicate glass and a removable silicone seal. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Décor Bento 4 Compartment Lunch Box
2. Décor Premium Glass Clips Oblong 1L — borosilicate and silicone named

• Water- and stain-resistant bag linings are a known PFAS application. This is the one product category in this table where a PFAS question is genuinely open, and the page is silent on it. [1]
• The lining is a de facto food-contact surface whenever food is unwrapped in the bag, and its material is not published. [1]
• Insulation, zip and hardware: all unstated. [1]
• “Easy to clean” is the entire care instruction. No warranty, no country of manufacture. [1]

Sources (1)

1. frank green Insulated Lunch Bag

• For a wipe-clean insulated lining, PFAS is the open question, and it is the one the page does not address either way. With the lining material unnamed there is no way to reason about it at all. [1]
• The cooling panel is the only component described: “290ml of liquid”, “non-toxic purified salt water”. Credit where it is due — most gel packs say nothing. [1]
• This is a bag rather than a food-contact tray, so it scores differently from the rest of this category. The lining still meets unwrapped food. [1]
• No certification, no country of manufacture, no warranty. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Fridge-to-Go Medium Lunch Bag

• No polymer type for the body. No material for the lid or seal. For a food container aimed at children, this is the thinnest disclosure on the Australian list. [1]
• “BPA free” on an unnamed plastic tells you one molecule is absent from a material you have not been told the identity of. See why that claim is narrower than it sounds. [1]
• No warranty found on the product page. [1]
• None of this means the product is unsafe. It means nothing about it can be checked from outside the company — and under Australian law they are not required to tell you. That is the finding.

Sources (1)

1. MontiiCo Bento Five product page

• “Tested by CPSIA-accredited independent labs to ensure that they are free of BPA, BPS and phthalates” — the lab class is named, the specific lab and report are not. [1] [2]
• PFAS is not addressed either way. [2]
• “Responsibly made in China”, stated. [2]
• The only non-glass container in this category publishing an oven ceiling in degrees: “Containers are oven safe up to 150 degrees C”. Not for microwave, being steel. [2]

Sources (2)

1. U-Konserve Australia — Rectangle Food Storage Container 740ml
2. U-Konserve — product information

• They are the only brand in this entire table that names siloxanes. For a silicone-lidded product that is the relevant residual question and nobody else touches it. [2]
• But their own FAQ says the glass containers are “borosilicate glass”, while this product page says semi-tempered soda lime. Those are different materials with different thermal-shock behaviour. Either the FAQ over-claims or the range mixes both, and the brand does not resolve it. [1] [2]
• The FAQ cites “LFGB-certified silicone seals”; the product page does not repeat it, and no certificate is published. [1] [2]
• “Oven safe but remove the lid” with no temperature ceiling. Made in China, with some manufacturing stated as Australian at brand level. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Seed & Sprout Rectangle Stainless Steel and Glass Containers Set of 5
2. Seed & Sprout product FAQ — which says borosilicate

• It is called “Zero Plastic” and the seal is not disclosed. A glass-on-glass lid still needs a gasket, and Pyrex does not say what it is — which quietly undercuts the name. [1]
• Worth knowing about the Pyrex brand generally: the European product is borosilicate and the US product is tempered soda-lime. They are different glasses under one name, and Australian shelves carry both. [1] [2]
• No warranty, oven rating or dishwasher guidance published on the collection page. [1]
• David Jones was unreachable to us — every product page returns a bot challenge rather than content — so the DJ price and listing wording could not be checked. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Pyrex Pure Glass / Zero Plastic collection
2. Pyrex US — “BPA-free plastic” lid for the Simply Store range
3. David Jones listing (page returns a bot challenge)

• The gasket is in constant contact with food and it is the one component with no name. That pattern — body named, lid named, seal silent — recurs across the category. [1]
• “BPA free” excludes BPA only. Nothing on BPS, phthalates or PFAS. [1]
• No oven, freezer or microwave guidance at all. The only care line is “Dishwasher safe (top rack only for lids)”. [1]
• No certification, no country of manufacture, no warranty. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Ever Eco Round Nesting Containers, Pastel Collection, 3 Piece Set

• The lid polymer is not named. For a buyer trying to avoid plastic, the lid is the part that matters most, and it is the one part Décor leaves out. [1]
• “BPA Free” is the chemical claim. That excludes one monomer and says nothing about BPS, BPF or phthalates in whatever the lid is made of. [1]
• Décor is an Australian brand and the page does not say where this is made. [1]
• No warranty published. No third-party testing. [1]
• Myer lists it and publishes no material information — not borosilicate, not the silicone seal. The material facts above all come from Décor. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Décor Premium Glass Clips Oblong 1L
2. Myer listing

• A 400°C claim with no named glass chemistry is the most aggressive unsupported thermal claim in this category. Borosilicate and tempered soda-lime behave very differently at that temperature and the page does not say which this is. [1]
• “Oven safe (Body only)”, microwave safe, “Dishwasher safe (including lid)”, freezer to −20°C. The guidance is good; the material behind it is not given. [1]
• “Safe and BPA free Tritan lid” — the BPA claim covers the lid only, and Tritan is BPA-free by design. [1]
• No country of manufacture and no certification on the product page. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Lock & Lock — Top Class glass food storage

• The temperature guidance has the same shape: “The lid is microwave-safe; heat food up to 100°C” gives a ceiling for the lid, while “The container is oven-safe, but the lid is not” gives no ceiling for the glass at all. [1]
• No BPA, PFAS or chemical claim of any kind — which is at least consistent with naming the polymers instead of making claims about them. [1]
• No country of manufacture and no certification. [1]
• Its all-plastic sibling is the benchmark for this category: polypropylene body, polypropylene lid, silicone rubber seal, all three food-contact parts named. [2]

Sources (2)

1. IKEA Australia — 365+ food container with lid, glass/plastic
2. IKEA Australia — 365+ container, all plastic, all three parts named

• The lid material is not specified beyond being clear and flat-rimmed. The lid is a food-contact part. [1]
• No country of manufacture stated on the product page. Décor is an Australian company and the site references an Australian Made page we could not reach — worth checking, because if it is locally made that is worth two points it is currently not getting. [1]
• No third-party testing published. [1]
• Décor defers to retailers for price, so there is no manufacturer price to quote. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Décor Vent & Seal glass container 1L

• A leak-proof lid necessarily has a plastic body and a gasket. Neither is disclosed: no polypropylene, no Tritan, no silicone, nothing. [1]
• No BPA statement at all on a plastic-lidded storage set, where “BPA-free” is near-universal marketing. Its absence where the claim would be cheap is worth noting. [1]
• “Oven Safe: Yes” to 400°C is stated for the set. The lid is certainly not oven safe and the page never scopes the claim to the glass. [1]
• The −40°C to 400°C range is asserted with no standard cited. One-year warranty. Country of manufacture not published. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Ovela 9 Piece Glass Container Set

• Pyrex’s Australian distributor publishes the rule outright: “Pyrex® made in the US (Soda-lime glass) and China (Borosilicate glass)” carry a two-year warranty, while “PYREX® made in France” carries ten years. So in Australia a 10-year warranty means French borosilicate and a 2-year warranty means US soda-lime or Chinese borosilicate. [2]
• Their own comparison, verbatim: “Soda lime is slightly more resistant to impact breakage than borosilicate, and borosilicate is more resistant to extreme thermal changes than soda lime.” Neither is better; they fail differently. [2]
• The lid is “BPA free” and its resin is not named. The lid contacts food, so we treat it as a food-contact part. [1]
• No gasket — and they say so: “Non-leakproof product”, “not suitable for transporting liquid foods”. Honest. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Global Kitchen Brands Australia — PYREX Cook & Freeze 4L
2. Global Kitchen Brands — Pyrex support, the glass-by-origin rule

• Its own sibling makes the gap obvious. The Glasslock Classic line is explicitly rated −20°C to 120°C. The Oven Safe line, sold alongside it, gives no number at all. [2]
• The base glass chemistry is not published for either line — not soda-lime, not borosilicate. Glasslock’s European site says only “high-quality tempered glass”. [1] [2]
• Lid resin not published. The oven-safe models are distinguished by a red sealing ring whose material is implied to be silicone and never stated. [1]
• “Made in Korea”. The Red Dot, iF and Good Design awards the brand cites are design awards, not materials testing. [2]

Sources (2)

1. Glasslock Australia — Oven Safe range
2. Glasslock Australia — Classic 1090ml, rated −20°C to 120°C

• No standard body is cited — no LFGB, no FDA reference, no EC 1935/2004 — so the platinum-cure claim is the maker’s word. [1]
• “Made without BPA or Phthalates” excludes two classes and is silent on PFAS, BPS and residual siloxanes. For a silicone product the siloxane question is the relevant one, and only Seed & Sprout addresses it anywhere in this table. [1] [2]
• The Australian page quotes its temperature ceiling in Fahrenheit only: “Heat Safe silicone can be used in temperatures up to 425° F” — about 218°C. On an Australian site that is a small but real usability failure. [1]
• No country of manufacture, no certification, no warranty. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Ziploc Australia — Endurables Large Pouch
2. Seed & Sprout product FAQ — the only brand naming D4 and D5 siloxanes

• Kmart identifies the glass type — “Borosilicate glass” — on its $9 lunchbox, and does not identify it on this $20 oven-rated storage set. The template can do it. This listing does not. [2]
• “BPA-Free Construction: The BPA-free lids provide a general food-safe option”. The lid polymer is never named, and the lid is a food-contact part. [1]
• No seal or gasket material given, despite “an airtight and watertight closure”. [1]
• “Do not wash the lid with a rough tool such as steel wool” is the only lid care guidance, on a lid of unstated composition. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — Set of 5 500ml Glass Food Storage Containers
2. Kmart — Glass Bento Lunch Box, which does say borosilicate

• Not even a BPA claim, which every other Anko plastic-lidded product carries. On this set there is no chemical statement of any kind. [1]
• “Oven safe” and “Microwave safe” appear as unqualified bullets, and the care text then forbids the lid in either. The lid is neither, and the bullets do not say so. [1]
• Twelve pieces means twelve bases. The twelve lids are not counted — unlike the 15-piece plastic set, which does count its lids. [1] [2]
• Target’s sibling $20 five-piece set does carry a “BPA-free” claim, on a product whose only unnamed component is the lid. BPA is irrelevant to glass, so that claim can only be about a plastic the page refuses to name. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Target — Anko Set of 12 Glass Food Storage Containers
2. Target — Anko Food Container Set 15 Piece
3. Target — Anko Set of 5 500ml Glass Containers

• “BPA-free plastic” names one excluded chemical and discloses nothing about what is present — no polypropylene, no resin code, no BPS or BPF statement. [1]
• The glass type is not stated on the Australian-facing listings. Pyrex Europe is borosilicate; Pyrex US is tempered soda-lime. The name does not tell you which you have. [1] [2]
• The lid contacts food, so we score it as a food-contact part of unstated composition rather than as trim. [1]
• Country of manufacture not stated. No third-party testing. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Pyrex US — Simply Store lid
2. Pyrex Pure Glass — the all-borosilicate range from the same brand

• The distributor does publish an unusually complete lid exclusion list for the Pyrex family: no “BPA, BPS, BVP, Latex, Phthalate, Polycarbonate, Polychlorinated Vinyl, Polystyrene, PFAS, or PVC”. That is one of the broadest exclusions in this table — and it still does not say what the resin is. [2]
• Gasket material not published, on a four-latch container sold as sealed. [1]
• “Made in the USA”, stated. Snapware carries a lifetime warranty against defects per the US brand site; the Australian page does not repeat it. [1]
• Glass is microwave, oven, fridge, freezer and dishwasher safe; plastic lids microwave, freezer and top-rack dishwasher. No temperature ceiling given. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Global Kitchen Brands Australia — Snapware TS Glass Square 4 Cup
2. Global Kitchen Brands — Pyrex support page

• This is worse than silence, because it demonstrates the information exists and is simply not connected to the product in front of you. Australian stock could be any of the three. [1]
• The testing claim is real but unsubstantiated: “we routinely test our Pyrex products for harmful lead and cadmium content at internationally recognized, third-party laboratories”. No laboratory named, no result published. [1]
• The ANZ page cites FDA compliance for the plastic lids — a US standard, on an Australian page, where neither FSANZ nor any Australian rule is mentioned. [1]
• Practical consequence: if you do not know whether your dish is soda-lime or borosilicate, treat it as soda-lime and never put it on a cold or wet surface while hot. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Global Kitchen Brands ANZ — Pyrex support and origins page

• The same brand name covers two different glasses in the same Australian catalogue. The warranty length is the tell: ten years means French borosilicate, two years means US soda-lime or Chinese borosilicate. [2]
• “Avoid extreme temperature changes” and “Always preheat oven before inserting glassware” are exactly the instructions soda-lime needs, without the page ever saying that is what it is. [1]
• Not for stovetop, grill, toaster oven or air fryer — stated, and worth knowing given how many people now own an air fryer. [1]
• “Made in USA”, stated. No lid, so no lid question. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Global Kitchen Brands Australia — Pyrex Originals 4.5L Oblong
2. Global Kitchen Brands — Pyrex support, the glass-by-origin rule

• The brand story sells Pyroceram’s freezer-to-oven heritage — “the original glass-ceramic material, Pyroceram, was a marvel of engineering, designed in the 1950s” — while the product actually sold is stoneware, which the same page concedes is an expanded formula. Different material, different thermal behaviour. [1] [2]
• “Oven safe (preheated oven)” with no temperature ceiling. [1]
• The glass cover’s type is not published. [1]
• No country of manufacture and no warranty on the page. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Global Kitchen Brands Australia — CorningWare French White 1.4L
2. Global Kitchen Brands — CorningWare brand page

• Öko-Test awarded it “sehr gut” across twelve categories including food safety, airtightness and durability. Worth knowing what that is: Öko-Test is a German consumer magazine, not an accreditation body, so it is a published test result rather than a certification. [1]
• “Bisphenol A free” is the chemical claim. BPA only; nothing on BPS, phthalates or PFAS. [1]
• No temperature range published for microwave use. [1]
• No country of manufacture on the product page. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Lock & Lock — Classic food storage range

• “Crafted from BPA-free plastic, these food containers are safe for daily use”. Polypropylene never contained BPA in the first place, so the claim is true and tells you nothing. The safety conclusion is drawn from a single absent substance. [1]
• Kmart’s own 13-piece set at $10 sits at the same shelf position and names no polymer at all — only “BPA-free plastic”. Two directly comparable products, two different disclosure standards. [2]
• No lid or gasket material is separately given; the single field covers the whole set. [1]
• Target lists the same product with a size range including “8.5L” alongside 1.5L, 1L, 500ml and 250ml — almost certainly a typo for 850ml, in a $14 set. [3]

Sources (3)

1. Kmart — 15 Piece Food Container Set
2. Kmart — 13 Piece Food Storage Set, no polymer named
3. Target — Food Container Set 15 Piece

• The title and capacity field say 2.5L. The first sentence of the description says “This 2L Food Container”. A plain copy error on a live page, and a reminder of how these listings are assembled. [1]
• “Crafted from BPA-free plastic” on polypropylene, which never contained BPA. [1]
• Lid material not separately named. No grade or food-contact standard cited for the PP. [1]
• No warranty, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Kmart — 2.5L Food Container

• No grade or food-contact standard for the polypropylene, and no cure type for the silicone. [1]
• No BPA or PFAS claim of any kind. IKEA names the polymers instead of making claims about them, which is the right way round. [1]
• No temperature limit published for microwave use. [1]
• No country of manufacture, no certification, no warranty beyond 365-day returns. [1]

Sources (1)

1. IKEA Australia — 365+ food container with lid, rectangular, plastic 4.2L

• Watch the split: Sistema states food storage containers are “Made in New Zealand” but its drink bottles are “Designed in New Zealand, Manufactured in Malaysia”. Do not apply the NZ claim across the whole range. [1]
• The on-page description is “durable, food-safe materials” — which is not a material. [1]
• “BPA free” is a company-level claim rather than a per-product one. [1]
• No third-party testing or laboratory named. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Sistema Klip It range
2. Sistema food storage — the New Zealand manufacturing statement

• “100% BPA-free” excludes BPA. It does not exclude BPS, BPF or the other bisphenol analogues that are the standard substitutes, and it does not exclude phthalates or PFAS. It is the narrowest chemical claim available. [1]
• “Food-grade” is asserted with no standard — no AS/NZS, no FDA, no LFGB, no EC 1935/2004 — and no laboratory. [1]
• Microwave-safe is claimed for a plastic whose polymer is unnamed. Microwave behaviour is entirely polymer-dependent, so the claim cannot be assessed from the page. [1]
• The “airtight silicone seal” is named, and it contacts food. The container holding the food is not. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Kogan — 12-Piece BPA-Free Food Storage Containers

• Disclosure inconsistency inside one retailer’s own range is the pattern worth watching. The template supports a material field. Whether it gets filled in appears to depend on the supplier, not the product. [1] [2]
• “Secure Snap-On Lids” — lid material not published. [1]
• Microwave and freezer safe are claimed for an unnamed polymer. [1]
• No warranty, no country of manufacture, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Kmart — 13 Piece Food Storage Set
2. Kmart — 15 Piece Food Container Set, polymer named

• Big W uses two non-equivalent claims on the same house brand’s food storage. This container says “BPA Free”; the Brilliant Basics rectangle container says “No added BPA”. The second is weaker — it speaks to deliberate addition rather than to presence. [2]
• “Locking lids” with no lid resin and no seal material, despite a leak-proof claim. [1]
• “Microwave safe*” and “Dishwasher safe*”, both asterisked to “Detach lid when reheating in the microwave and cleaning in the dishwasher”. So the lid is neither. [1]
• No country of manufacture, no warranty, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Big W — Brilliant Basics Clip Lock Food Container 1.1L
2. Big W — Brilliant Basics Rectangle Food Container 650ml 3 Pack, “No added BPA”

• No polymer named. “A secure lid to help keep food fresh and prevent leaks” is the entire component description, with no mention of whether there is a silicone seal. [1]
• Microwave, dishwasher and freezer safe are all claimed for an unnamed plastic. [1]
• Compare the Kmart equivalent at a similar price, which names polypropylene outright. The cheaper retailer discloses more. [2]
• No country of manufacture, no warranty, no third-party testing. [1]

Sources (2)

1. Big W — Brilliant Basics Rectangle Food Container 650ml 3 Pack
2. Kmart — 2.5L Food Container, polypropylene named

• “Made in New Zealand”, stated — which is genuinely rare and worth the credit. [1]
• There is no BPA claim on the manufacturer’s Australian page, despite “BPA-Free” appearing in retailer listings for the same product. Claim in the channel, silence at the maker. [1]
• Sold as “100% leak proof”, which requires a seal, and no seal material is given. [1]
• Good appliance guidance: microwave with clips open, never sealed while heating, top-rack dishwasher, freezer safe, and an explicit list of what to avoid. No temperature limit. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Sistema Australia — 920ml Brilliance

• A silicone gasket is referenced in the mechanism description and never confirmed as silicone or given a grade. [1]
• No microwave, freezer or temperature guidance at all. The only care line is “Dishwasher safe” plus a warning against abrasives. [1]
• No certification, no country of manufacture, no warranty. [1]
• Worth noting for anyone researching this brand: most Avanti product URLs return 404 to automated retrieval even when they appear in search results, and retailer pages carry no material detail. [1]

Sources (1)

1. Avanti Homewares — Flip Top Storage Container 1.2L