The study examined 203 black plastic household products, including 109 kitchen utensils, 36 toys, 30 hair accessories, and 28 food serviceware products. Of those 203 products, ...

Here’s the thing: The math was incorrect. Sixty multiplied by 7,000 is actually 420,000, not 42,000. As a result, the exposure amount of 34,700 nanograms a day of decaBDE from black plastic is ...

F rom early October 2024, several news outlets published articles claiming that a variety of plastic household items contained dangerous levels of flame-retardant chemicals commonly used in ...

Liu and her colleagues screened more than 200 black plastic household products that would potentially give consumers close contact with these chemicals, including kitchen utensils, ...

A new study found that black-colored plastic used in a variety of household items -- like kitchen utensils, takeout and leftovers containers, meat and product trays, and children’s toys -- could ...

Have basketfuls of toys and clothes in the kids’ rooms? This will make you think twice about everything you have in your home ...

Scientists from Toxic-Free Future and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam tested a range of household items made of black plastic and sold in the U.S., and found toxic flame retardants in many of them.

It’s not possible for people to tell which black plastic items might contain flame retardants, but in the new study, researchers found the chemicals in 17 of the more than 200 household products ...

For the plastic items we can't avoid completely, we try to recycle as many as possible. ... Household Plastic Items That Can't Be Recycled 1. Plastic Shower Curtains. RIC: #3.

A recent peer-reviewed analysis of black plastic household products, including food trays and kitchen utensils, found that 17 out of 20 items tested (or 85 percent) contained brominated and ...

Further, the study found flame retardant contamination in less than 10 percent of the 203 household products it examined—and only about 8 percent of 109 kitchen utensils.