I did wonder this myself. Can it enter the body via normal usage?
I don’t make a habit of putting headphones in my mouth.
Comment on Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project
scoobford@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
This seems like a nothing burger. Plenty of things you shouldn’t ingest like BPA, plastic, and solder are perfectly benign when used to construct consumer electronics.
I’d be more interested to hear they found something that leeches through the skin being used to create the body of the headphones.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
thehatfox@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
BPAs have been shown to absorbed through the skin. Headphones are increasingly worn for long, continuous periods. Unlike other plastic objects which are handled for shorter periods.
I’m not entirely convinced of the danger myself (tinnitus seems a bigger worry for headphone use to me), but I thought it was a matter worthy of further discussion.
xep@discuss.online 9 hours ago
Sheepskin earpads it is!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 hours ago
Like the condoms?
victorz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Do they make condoms from Israeli circumcised foreskin?