Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic flame retardants from electronics wind up in some household products made of black plastic, including kitchen utensils. The study sparked a flurry of media reports a few weeks ago that urgently implored people to ditch their kitchen spatulas and spoons.

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  • That viral black plastic kitchen utensil study was overblown thanks to a simple math mistake.
    If TikTok had you rushing to throw away your black plastic kitchen utensils, rest assured that those tools weren't as bad as they seemed. A study went viral in November — as much as any study can go ...
    12/16/2024 - 9:11 am | View Link
  • Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter
    The authors made a math error that put the estimated risk from kitchen utensils off by an order of magnitude. Specifically, the authors estimated that if a kitchen utensil contained middling levels of ...
    12/16/2024 - 4:22 am | View Link
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