The articles I posted agree with your assessment.
Mine is that it sadly strikes me as irreversible at this point — which is not to imply that at least trying to avoid ingesting them (or believing we can do so in any measure that has an impact, given how they’re shown to have become a ubiquitous part of our bodies 
).
I have a favorite wooden cooking spoon I use for almost everything, and the silicone replacements I ordered for the black plastic cookware are a gorgeous red.
