(NEXSTAR) – If you were caught up in last month's panic over black kitchen cooking utensils, you now have a reason to breathe easier. The concern over the common kitchen tools appears to have been overblown, all because of a mistake in the scientific study.

The study, published last month in the journal Chemosphere, tested 203 household products made of black plastic. The researchers found 85% of them contained high concentrations of flame retardant.

The findings went viral, spreading concern that people cooking with black plastic utensils were inadvertently contaminating their food with cancer-causing chemicals. But how much of those chemicals are making their way into our food (and therefore........

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