As a professional kitchen gear tester, my utensil crock is constantly overflowing with wooden spoons and silicone spatulas. In an effort to reduce my use of black plastic (and refine my utensil ...

Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately. That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic ...

Your black plastic spatula could be slowly poisoning you, study says. Here’s what to do . Nov. 18, 2024 at 2:24 pm Updated Nov. 18, 2024 at 3:24 pm . By . Karen Garcia. Los Angeles Times.

When a recent study found that household items made of black plastic—from kitchen tools like spatulas to takeout containers and even children’s toys—contain toxic flame retardants, some took ...

It’s not possible for people to tell which black plastic items might contain flame retardants, but in the new study, researchers found the chemicals in 17 of the more than 200 household products ...