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Cooking items in your home are linked to cancer-causing chemicals

These cancer-causing chemicals shouldn’t be used to begin with..," one expert said.

Toxic brominated flame retardants (BFRs) were found in 85% of the products, with total concentrations ranging up to 22,800 parts per million (ppm) of chemicals, including the banned substance deca-BDE and its replacement. BFR’s could be commonly found in plastics, televisions, and electronics, and “are currently the largest marking flame retardant group due to their high-performance efficiency and low cost,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “These results clearly demonstrate that flame retardant-containing electronics, such as the outer casings of large TVs, are being recycled into food storage containers and utensils,” Heather Stapleton, environmental chemist and exposure scientists at Duke University added.

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