The Danish Consumer Ombudsman has issued another warning to Eva Solo and Fiskars. Both companies produce cookware including frying pans.
According to officials, the manufacturers repeatedly used the same misleading message on packaging. This time they placed stickers on products.
The stickers claimed the frying pans were free from PFOS and PFOA chemicals.
The Consumer Ombudsman calls this misleading marketing. Both substances are illegal in cookware. No frying pans should contain them.
"Consumers should not believe they buy products that are healthier or more environmentally friendly than others when that is not true," stated the Consumer Ombudsman.
"No frying pans may contain PFOA or PFOS. Companies cannot advertise that these substances are absent from their products when they simply comply with the law."
In December, officials first warned the companies about this practice.
The companies responded by adding stickers to affected products. These stickers acknowledged violating marketing laws but still repeated that products were PFOA and PFOS free.
Eva Solo wrote on one sticker: "According to Danish marketing law, we cannot state that products lack illegal substances even when true. We mistakenly added this information. Please ignore this labeling."
Fiskars products received similar stickers.
This marks the second time these companies faced criticism for the same marketing approach. The repeated violation suggests either misunderstanding of regulations or deliberate testing of enforcement boundaries.