Correction to Toxic Flame Retardants Study
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•The Study That Called Out Black Plastic Utensils Had a Major Math Error
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A recent study found toxic flame retardants from electronics wind up in some household products made of black plastic, including kitchen utensils.
The study sparked a flurry of media reports imploring people to ditch their kitchen spatulas and spoons.
The authors made a math error that put the estimated risk off by an order of magnitude.
The EPA 's safe level of BDE-209 is 7,000 ng per kilogram of body weight per day.
The other was a fast food tray that was at the threshold of contamination with 51 ppm . This story originally appeared on Ars Technica ..
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