It may be time to invest in some new cooking utensils after a recent study found some common kitchen tools may be leaking dangerous flame retardant chemicals…
Flame retardants are intentionally added into electronic enclosures like the plastic casing around tv’s or monitors- as a way to prevent fires. But when those items are recycled into things like cooking utensils or food storage containers and heated up- they can leach toxic chemicals into your food.It may be time to invest in some new cooking utensils after a recent study found some common kitchen tools may be leaking dangerous flame retardant chemicals into your food.
“We also know that flame retardants are able to leach out of kitchen utensils and into food,” said Liu. After learning all of this, NBC 5 Responds turned to Dr John Anderson, Associate Chair of the Chemistry department at the University of Chicago, to look at a black plastic kitchen ladle from the home of reporter PJ Randhawa.
“So what we're seeing here is peaks that are arising from different elements in the compound. And what we can see is we look specifically for bromine and antimony and we see some signals at the spots for bromine and antimony,” he said. Out of the 203 products tested by Toxic Free Future, fire retardants were found in 85% of them. In the U.S., only a handful of fire retardants are officially banned. But Liu says one of long those banned compounds associated with a high risk of cancer was still found in a majority of the samples tested.
Flame retardants used in household items are essential to achieve existing product fire safety standards and have been extensively assessed for health risks. More than a dozen federal laws govern the safe manufacture and use of chemicals, including flame retardants, on the market today and are subject to review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other national regulatory agencies around the world.
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