For the past few years, I've been telling my friends what I'm about to tell you: toss that black plastic spatula in the trash ...

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I recently threw away my trusty black plastic spatula after a scientific paper claimed that such utensils may contain dangerous levels of flame-retardant chemicals. It turns out the researchers ...

While media coverage of the study often focused on what individuals could do, like ditch black plastic spatulas, Liu said the ultimate solution is more regulation. Hazardous flame retardants are ...

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The peer-reviewed study tested 203 household products made of black plastic and found that 85 ... with the highest levels found in black spatulas and sushi trays. Most of these retardants ...

Brominated flame retardants don't bind well to plastics. It's relatively easy for the chemicals to leach out of a plastic spatula into hot oil, for instance. There's evidence that when a baby puts a ...

It seems logical to use glass cleaner (such as Windex) on a glass stovetop, but it's best to skip it. The ammonia in the ...

A study published by the journal Chemosphere originally stated that a toxic chemical found in black plastic almost exceeded the safe exposure limit when in fact it was 10 times lower than the limit.

At the moment, these risks are what most warnings are focusing on, but we'd venture a guess that plastic cooking utensils also give off microplastics over time (one only has to picture the ragged edge ...