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Silicone is a rubber, not a plastic and black silicone should be fine.

so black silicones and rubber don't use the same pigment or flame retardant? or they don't leach out?

ok this is far more informative n coherent

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565352...

"This study sought to determine whether black plastic household products sold on the U.S. market contained emerging and phased-out FRs and whether polymer type was predictive of contamination."

and they do say its mostly abs, followed by hips , then pp; and do not say anything about other colors and other materials, plastic or not.

abs is really a quite weird choice as a cooking spatula material?

Its glass transition temperature is approximately 105 °C (221 °F).[4] ABS is amorphous and therefore has no true melting point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styr...

I'll add one: is nylon plastic?

its clearly a plastic? polyamide?