"A new analysis by the European Union-funded ToxFree Life for All project took a look at 81 headphone models from producers around the world. The results were pretty grim: every single model tested contained substances considered hazardous to humans, including bisphenols, phthalates, and flame retardants. Not even premium brands like Bose and Sennheiser received a clean bill of health, culminating in what ToxFree calls a "complete market failure.""
"Most alarmingly, researchers found Bisphenol A - an industrial chemical linked to infertility, obesity, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes - in 177 of the 180 total samples taken from the 81 devices. "These chemicals are not just additives; they may be migrating from the headphones into our body," Karolína Brabcová, a chemical researcher with ToxFree told the Guardian. "Daily use - especially during exercise when heat and sweat are present - accelerates this migration directly to the skin.""
""Given the prolonged skin contact associated with headphone use, dermal exposure represents a relevant pathway, and it is reasonable to assume that similar migration of BPA and its substitutes may occur from headphone components directly to the user's skin," the researchers wrote in their report."
An EU-funded test of 81 headphone models found hazardous substances in every model, including bisphenols, phthalates, and flame retardants. Bisphenol A appeared in 177 of 180 samples from the 81 devices. Chemicals in headphone components can migrate to skin, a process accelerated by heat and sweat during exercise. Those chemicals are associated with infertility, obesity, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. Immediate harm is unlikely, but long-term exposure to a chemical cocktail raises concerns for pregnant people and young children. Premium brands were among those affected, a result characterized as a "complete market failure." Dermal contact represents a relevant exposure pathway for BPA and its substitutes.
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