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Black Plastic cooking utensils

2024-12-20 18:46:50.577667+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Skepchick: Why Did We Throw Away Our Black Plastic Utensils?

But here’s where we get to the same old story that I see again and again with these environmental watchdog groups: the hyperbole. And in this case, it wasn’t just the organization saying that your spatula is going to give you cancer. The study specifically noted that the levels of DecaBDE they found in the utensils could result in a person consuming 34,700 nanograms per day, which they said approached the EPA’s safety limit, which is 7,000 nanograms per kilogram of body weight. They claimed that for a 60-kilogram (or 130-pound) adult, that was 42,000 nanograms per day. Which…it isn’t. It’s 420,000 nanograms per day. The levels they found actually didn’t even hit 10% of the EPA’s limit.

Joe Swarcz at the McGill office for Science and Society: Are Black Plastic Spatulas and Serving Spoons Safe to Use?

I mean, lots of reasons plastics aren't great, but...

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