Remember that huge panic around black plastic spatulas? It turns out that the whole thing may have just been a crock of crap. A study published in October contended that kitchenware made of black plastics, and especially utensils like spatulas, contained alarmingly high amounts of toxic flame retardants due to the recycled materials that they were sourced from. It almost immediately caused a major scare, and articles published everwhere from The New York Times to CNN recommended throwing these ubiquitous black spatulas out. But some scientists questioned the research, on Sunday, the editors of the journal that the study was […]