How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils

Re:How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plast... by juujian on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:20PM (#42401123)

Big difference between glass and plastics. Glass is chemical inert while plastics degrades and leaks into everything. See the flavor of a plastic bottle that has been in your car for a while. Some plastics may even resemble stuff that is in your body. It's all processed dinosaur juice after all (actually trees, but whatever).

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Re:How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plast... by FredPret on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:25PM (#42401175)

True but glass is very much "outside the body only". Don't want shards in your gut.

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Re:How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plast... by ascorbic on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:43PM (#42403145)

Eating a small shard of glass will kill you far more quickly than any amount of chemicals from your spatula

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Re:How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plast... by onewheeltom on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:24PM (#42401168)

Glass shards can also be very sharp.

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Re:How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plast... by pfdietz on Thursday December 12, 2024 @02:27PM (#42402436)

> Glass is chemical inert

Well, except for leaded glass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass

"Several studies have demonstrated that serving food or drink in glassware containing lead oxide can cause lead to leach into the contents, even when the glassware has not been used for storage."

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Re:How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plast... by semiquaver on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:22PM (#42404030)

Glass is not so harmless when you consume shards of it. Chemically inert things can damage the body by mechanical means (I’m a little surprised that this has to be said!)

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