New Mexico businesses are already dealing with higher costs, rising insurance rates, workforce shortages, inflation, and a growing list of government mandates.
Now, a new state PFAS labeling mandate is adding even more pressure on manufacturers, small businesses, and consumers.
NMBC is proud to serve as the New Mexico state affiliate for the National Association of Manufacturers. This week, NAM joined industry leaders in filing a lawsuit to block New Mexico’s new PFAS labeling mandate.
PFAS are used in many modern products, including electronics, appliances, vehicles, medical technology, packaging, and construction materials. Instead of taking a targeted, science-based approach, New Mexico’s rule forces manufacturers of covered products that intentionally contain PFAS to place a state-mandated warning symbol on the products and packaging.
The lawsuit argues the rule violates the First Amendment by forcing businesses to carry the state’s message and violates the Constitution by attempting to regulate manufacturing decisions beyond New Mexico.
Carla Sonntag says, “New Mexico’s extreme PFAS labeling mandate is a dangerous regulatory overreach that treats arbitrary state dictates as scientific consensus. This unconstitutional rule forces businesses to peddle a distorted narrative that any trace of these essential compounds is harmful, while completely ignoring their safe, vital role in everyday technologies such as electronics and home appliances. By trying to dictate manufacturing standards well beyond our state lines, New Mexico is setting up a costly, chaotic patchwork that will ultimately punish local consumers and stifle our state’s economic growth. NMBC stands firmly with NAM to protect our job creators from this overreaching mandate.”
New Mexico businesses need clear, fair, and predictable rules. They do not need costly mandates that ignore real-world impacts on manufacturers, employers, consumers, and working families.
NMBC will continue standing with job creators against regulatory overreach that makes it harder to build, manufacture, sell, and hire in New Mexico.
Read the full NAM press release HERE