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

The authors of the Chemosphere study found that everyday household items made of black recycled plastic, including kitchen utensils, have a high chance of containing dangerous levels of flame retardants and other toxic chemicals.

When you use a black plastic spatula while flipping your pancakes, the heat can encourage any flame retardant present to leach out of the flipper and into your flapjacks.

Flame retardants aren't actually bound to the plastic polymers they're added to; they're an additive. Heat can ease migration of chemicals out of products.

If you're looking at your black plastic products and thinking, 'I've used it for this long and I'm OK,' these products play the long game.

Read at Los Angeles Times