From 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 ...

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The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic ...

A recent study, published in the journal Chemosphere and taken up widely by news outlets, shows that many black plastic household products contain brominated flame retardants, which are possibly ...

What’s the problem with black plastic? 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 ...

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 ...

The study highlighted that flame retardants used in plastic electronics may, in some instances, be recycled into household items. "Companies continue to use toxic flame retardants in plastic ...

Liu and her colleagues chose 203 household products to test for flame-retardant contamination based on how often those items were made of black plastic — the most common color used in ...