Many of you asked whether the black plastic spatulas and serving spoons that lurk in kitchen drawers should be discarded. Why? Because of the massive publicity given to a paper published in the ...

Some have suggested throwing out spatulas and slotted spoons made from recycled black plastic, saying they’re “probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil,” while others are weighing ...

If you were using a contaminated spatula, the study said, you could be exposing yourself to 80 percent of the daily EPA limit for a chemical called BDE-209 — a flame retardant found in the ...

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 ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

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 ...

The spatula also wasn't the only area of concern when it came to food. There's also that black plastic sushi tray. According to the findings, it contained 11,900 parts per million of the flame ...

Ask Well Do I Really Need to Throw Out My Black Plastic Spatula? A new study detected dangerous chemicals in a variety of household items. But experts say the health risks aren’t clear-cut.

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 ...

You may want to check your kitchen utensil drawer and reconsider using that black plastic spatula. Because according to a new study published in the journal Chemosphere, it may be leeching ...