Loaded with cheese, this creamy, baked hashbrown casserole is sure to please even the pickiest eaters. There are few things ...

Here’s how it works. I am a knight made of lightning and black steel. Perched on the parapet of a vast gothic tower, I spy a dozen shambling undead in the valley below. I leap into the air above ...

Let’s be real—black plastic kitchen utensils look sleek and serve their purpose. But what if we told you that they might be secretly leaching toxic chemicals into your food? Yup, that’s right. It ...

It's a disturbing thought: At this very moment, tiny crumbs of plastic are trickling through our bodies, a parade of unwelcome houseguests ready to take up residence in some tissue or organ.

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 ...

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, only 20 (10 percent ...

Should you throw out your black plastic spatula? A recent study that reported alarming levels of several flame retardants in common black-colored plastic items (including cooking utensils ...

As Toxic-Free Future’s study originally published in Chemosphere’s October 2024 issue notes, microscopic amounts of recycled black plastic containing the compound are sometimes detectable in ...

As a consequence, the researchers sought to estimate how much of these chemicals are leaking out of black plastic kitchenware and contaminating people while cooking. The team concluded that using ...

The study, published last month in the journal Chemosphere, tested 203 household products made of black plastic. The researchers found 85% of them contained high concentrations of flame retardant.