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 as a ...

Take a peek into almost any kitchen drawer, and you're likely to find one: a trusty, often well-used, black plastic spatula. It's a kitchen staple, seemingly innocuous and always ready for flipping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New details about a study that warned against black plastic spatulas and other kitchen tools have come out. (Getty Creative) ...

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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. Those ...

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 ...

You’ll flip for it too. Black plastic kitchen utensils have made a lot of headlines lately due to reports that they may leach toxic chemicals into food when exposed to heat. While I have done a great ...

The study conducted by advocacy group Toxic-Free Future found signs of a flame retardant in black plastic and raised the possibility of it getting into your food if you use something like a black ...

Going plastic-free doesn’t happen overnight. If you’ve committed to removing the material from your kitchen in 2026, you might’ve started with the utensil drawer — swapping out black plastic spatulas, ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

In October, home chefs and foodies collectively freaked out when research was published that detected toxic flame retardants in black-colored plastic. The study, which was published in the journal ...