T-Fal is owned by the company Groupe SEB. Hilde evaluates parent companies rather than individual brands. You can read more about why we think this approach is more helpful for consumers on our blog.

Groupe SEB owns a variety of kitchen brands sold in both the U.S. and internationally. We like that a number of the brands owned by the company offer cookware made with materials like stainless steel and cast iron that tend to be safer options for these kinds of products. That said, the company’s unwillingness to phase out fluorinated compounds (e.g. PTFE) from their non-stick products was a major ingredient safety red flag for us. Their poor performance on the ingredient safety portion of our evaluation is the primary reason the company doesn’t get a better overall rating. There were a variety of other elements of their sustainability and accountability efforts that score well for our criteria. We see indicators that the company is making progress on some topics like living wages in their supply chain. If you do decide to purchase products from one of the brands owned by this company like All-Clad, go with the stainless steel options.