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Beware These 'Toxic Zombies' in Your Kitchen
Beware These 'Toxic
Zombies' in Your Kitchen
OPINION
Nov 1, 2024 4:40 PM CDT

Beware These 'Toxic Zombies' in Your Kitchen

Atlantic writer urges people to toss their black plastic spatulas

(Newser) - Toxic-Free Future's Megan Liu has a warning for us about the kitchen utensils we use: Beware plastic ones, especially black versions. That's because black plastic is likely to have been made with recycled electronic waste (e.g., TV and computer casings), in a process that often sees little...

Study: The Air Inside Our Cars Is a Problem

Researchers find flame retardants in car air samples

(Newser) - Thanks to seat belts and airbags we're supposed to be fairly safe from harm inside our vehicles. A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technologies suggests the very air inside the cars could be detrimental to our health, the Guardian reports. Researchers analyzed the air of...

Scientists Find 6 Flame Retardants in Our Bodies

Small study analyzed urine of 16 Californians

(Newser) - Much of the furniture in your home is likely coated in flame retardants—and it turns out those same flame retardants may be making themselves at home in our bodies. The Silent Spring Institute, working in tandem with Belgian researchers, tested 16 Californians for biomarkers of six flame-retardant chemicals using...

We're Regulating Chemicals All Wrong
 We're Regulating 
 Chemicals All Wrong 
OPINION
Nov 10, 2014 1:44 PM CST

We're Regulating Chemicals All Wrong

The FDA, EPA should be considering them by the class

(Newser) - When it comes to how our government regulates potentially dangerous synthetic chemicals, Rolf U. Halden and Robert S. Lawrence have some big numbers to throw around. The two recently analyzed 143,000 peer-reviewed research papers related to what they've dubbed "chemicals of emerging concern" and determined that the...

Chemical-Soaked Danger Lurks in Your Couch
 Chemical-Soaked 
 Danger Lurks 
 in Your Couch 
Nicholas Kristof
May 20, 2012 12:52 PM CDT

Chemical-Soaked Danger Lurks in Your Couch

Deadly chemicals in furniture illustrate lobbyist dangers

(Newser) - To you, the sofa is probably just a place to park your butt. But to Nicholas Kristof, writing in his latest New York Times column, it is a symbol of how money and politics ruin everything. That's because nearly all couches in the United States contain flame retardant chemicals...

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