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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils and grocery meat and produce trays may contain alarming levels of toxic flame ...
Black plastics often contain particularly high levels of flame retardants, according to a new study. The chemicals are often used in electronics, but recycling has brought them to products that ...
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(The original study on flame retardants found in black plastic by researchers at Toxic-Free Future was found to have miscalculated the EPA’s daily limit for exposure of BDE-209, one type of ...
Black-colored plastics used in electronics are leaching flame retardants into kitchen utensils, toys and food containers, according to a study.© Grace Cary/Moment RF/Getty Images/File ...