Jessica Roy
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Apple News Today · The kitchen tools you should seriously think about throwing out · 21 Nov 2024
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The real concern is anything that ends up in someone's mouth.
And so when you look at something like a black plastic spatula that is getting heated up and that's touching your food and that heat especially and the oil as sort of a transfer mechanism increases the chemical migration so that if there are flame retardants in your spatula, the oil and the heat, that combination makes it more likely for those chemicals to then leach into the food that you're eating.
Unfortunately, there's no way to know if your black plastic spatula has those flame retardants in it. There's no sort of like home test. There's no mark on the product that says this was made with recycled plastic or anything like that. And so really the safest thing to do is just to get rid of stuff.
But I think more broadly, and a takeaway I hope people get from this story, every time we study plastic of any color, we find things in it that are dangerous. If it's not flame retardants, it seems like it's something else. And so I think looking critically at other plastics in your house, in your kitchen, makes a lot of sense.
And when you upgrade things, if you are going to buy new measuring cups anyways, if you're going to buy a new coffee maker anyways, looking for stuff that doesn't use as much plastic, especially black plastic, makes sense.
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