Very often these are actually astroturfing competitors. There's certainly no shortage of plastic free "eco," "organic" or "green" kitchen utensil manufacturers.
The only real approach here is to scrutinize everything and always be especially critical when someone comes up with something that sounds drastic.
It is a nice theory when you look at it like that but it doesn't have to be so nefarious. First, we have a history of letting that through, leaded gas, insecticide etc but we learnt. Any research is going to suffer from the effect of wanting to confirm and publish, but I'm glad people looking at this stuff. I'd be so much more skeptical of anyone saying X is not toxic so some corporation can keep doing whatever.
Next is that any utensil manufacturers easily has the ability to change the colour and slap on that eco marketing. There is barely any financial incentive for Big White Utensil Co to go and pay scientists to slag off black plastic.
The typo is really unfortunate. But wouldn't anyone be glad to know that black plastics have more of a toxic chemical than white ones? Even if both are below a threshold, I'd like to keep my toxin consumption as low as conveniently possible, maybe nothing will happen to me either way but spatulas are like 10 bucks
>wouldn't anyone be glad to know that black plastics have more of a toxic chemical than white ones?
Why wouldn't anyone be able to do that? If you can verify the research, you can do whatever you want. Just don't fall for newspapers and blogspam, which also goad you into these things because that is literally how they make money. That way we're not even talking about the actual industry behind it.
The only real approach here is to scrutinize everything and always be especially critical when someone comes up with something that sounds drastic.