Research suggests that microplastic particles contaminate our food through everyday cooking tools, like cutting boards, ...

Chances are there’s a well-used black plastic spatula, spoon or ladle near the stove. Scientists say it belongs in the trash. A recent study adds to the evidence that black plastic household ...

It’s impossible to avoid all exposure to plastic. But updating your spatula, stirring spoon, or other kitchen gear from plastic is a simple swap, especially if you use these utensils often.

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 ...

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If you recently threw out your black plastic spatula, as several news articles urged us to do (“Your favorite spatula could kill you” was a real headline), you might want to see if you can dig ...

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.

“What we might think of as a small exposure from, you know, cooking with a black plastic spatula, if you’re cooking with that spatula every day for years . . . and there’s also a little bit ...

But she still uses a black plastic spatula to cook eggs the way she likes and to avoid scratching her nonstick pan. “Everything in moderation,” she said. Emily Schmall is a reporter for the ...

“Whether it’s a plastic spatula being used over the stove or plastic containers run through the hot dishwasher, the process opens up the plastic and allows more leaching of micro-particles and ...