Subject: black plastics
Tempted to put this on the cooking board, but it could also affect US policy. A study shows that black plastics can have cancer-causing BFRs. This includes a lot of kitchen utensils, restaurant take-home containers, and even some toys. This is relevant to policy because, if true, the government should ban those products.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01...

Just do a search on the subject and you'll get a lot of hits. CNN was the first one I got, but it's all over the news networks.

In our house we have been moving to glass containers anyway. We would use containers from restaurants for storage, but never put them in the microwave. The glass containers can go straight from fridge to microwave, which is why we were migrating. This revelation will hasten the process of elimination of plastics (and especially black plastic) from our house.