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 retardants that may be leaching ...

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 ...

Researchers tested 203 black plastic products, including kitchen utensils, hair accessories, and toys, to detect bromine, an indicator of brominated flame retardants.

(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, ...