CNN

Black-colored plastic used for kitchen utensils and toys linked to banned toxic flame retardants

Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils and grocery meat and produce trays may contain alarming levels of toxic flame retardants that may be leaching from ...

It's time to ban black plastic: These non-toxic kitchen utensils start at just $5

Keep microplastics out of your food.
Los Angeles Times

Your cool black kitchenware could be slowly poisoning you, study says. Here’s what to do

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 utensil ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

How to deal with all the black plastic in your kitchen

If you’re taking stock of your kitchen tools, a cursory scan around the room will probably reveal a common trend: black plastic. “Black plastic is in virtually every kitchen in America,” said Judith ...
The New York Times

Black Plastic Kitchen Tools Might Expose You to Toxic Chemicals. Here’s What to Use Instead.

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Katie Okamoto Katie Okamoto is an editor focusing on sustainability. She’s ...
Outside

Black Plastic Has No Place in Your Kitchen

Update (January 9, 2025): The study cited in this article had a mathematical typo in calculating the exposure risk of a harmful chemical called deca-BDE, inflating the number by tenfold. As a result, ...
USA Today

Are your plastic kitchen utensils toxic? An alarming study gets an update.

An alarming study that had Americans tossing out their black plastic kitchen utensils, toys and to-go packages earlier this month overstated the concern, the researchers admit. But they still say ...
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6 plastic kitchen utensils you need to get rid of immediately

Plastic kitchen utensils are affordable, lightweight, and widely used—but many of them pose serious health and safety risks, especially when exposed to heat. Over time, plastic can break down, leach ...
NBC News

Do you need to throw out your black plastic cooking utensils? Experts weigh in.

We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our series FYI where we have experts explain if lip balm is actually bad, how often ...
New York Magazine

The Great Black Plastic Spatula Panic

Zoë Schlanger, a science writer at The Atlantic, was looking for a story last October when she got an email about a new study warning how the chemicals in black-plastic cookware could be leaching into ...
The Atlantic

Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula

For the past several years, I’ve been telling my friends what I’m going to tell you: Throw out your black plastic spatula. In a world of plastic consumer goods, avoiding the material entirely requires ...