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Your black plastic kitchen utensils aren’t so toxic after all. But you should still toss them, group says

Authors of a recent study stand by their conclusions and warn against using such products.

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In a blog post, Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society in Canada, explained that the Toxin-Free Future scientists miscalculated the lower end of what the EPA considered a health risk through a multiplication error. Instead of humans being potentially exposed to a dose of toxic chemicals in black plastic utensils near the minimum level that the EPA deems a health risk, it’s actually about one-tenth of that. (Dreamstime/TNS)
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Authors of a recent study stand by their conclusions and warn against using such products.

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