Your cool black kitchenware could be slowly poisoning you, study says. Here’s what to do

Go to your kitchen, grab your black spatula and throw it in the trash. Immediately.

That’s the alarming message from a new study published in the journal Chemosphere. Cooking with any plastic utensil has long been seen as worrisome because heat can cause chemicals in the plastic to migrate into the food you’re about to eat. But researchers are now saying products made from recycled black plastic contain even more toxic components.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.