Your cool black kitchenware could be slowly poisoning you, study says. Here's

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It’s paywalled. Are they saying to use metal and wooden utensils only?

No.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653524022173

Is it just black? I have some blue and even red.

Product types were selected based on prevalence of black plastic, since most electronics enclosures are made of black plastic, and previous findings of FR contamination (Jitka et al., 2022; Petrlik et al., 2022; Turner, 2018).

I was telling our daughter about this and she mentioned that silicone doesn’t have the problems of plastic. I did a bunch of googling and it seems to be true. And there are ways to tell the difference. So I can keep a few things. I love my daughter and Google a whole lot :slight_smile:

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Silicone is not recycled.

Right. But neither is black plastic. Not why I will switch to silicone.

The toxic black plastic cookware is made from recycled plastic containing toxic flame retardant chemicals.

Yup. And I will put those in the trash and, when/if the time comes, will buy more silicone.

Mostly use wood & silicone. I have one black plastic spatula for my non-stick pans. Throwing it out today. Then there’s the issue of black plastic takeout containers filled with piping hot food. And what’s in the damn black silicone utensils? Ugh.

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As noted already, silicone is not made from recycled plastic, so it doesn’t contain toxic flame retardant chemicals.

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I know but one wonders what’s in all the fanciful colors they use to make the silicone utensils. :thinking:

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The new study, which was conducted by the consumer advocacy group Toxic-Free Future, based its estimates of the levels of toxins on research published in a 2018 paper. That study stress-tested utensils with the highest concentration of flame retardants by submerging them in hot cooking oil for 15 minutes. …

… “under normal use conditions, it’s very unlikely that these chemicals are going to come out into the food that you’re cooking in any meaningful levels that you should be concerned,” Dr. Allen said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/well/black-plastic-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk4.EUvx.Sfpe26Gitxvd&smid=url-share

Sounds like Center for science in the public interest quality research

"Experts suggested that you avoid leaving your plastic utensils in hot pots or pans. "

Not something I do.

The study overstated the dose and thus risk by a factor of 10 due to a basic arithmetic error.

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Pretty typical, eh?

Errors that big aren’t common.

… when he saw 60 multiplied by 7,000 to get 42,000, his eyes widened. “I’m not bad at math,” he said.