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Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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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.
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.
Sheepskin earpads it is!
Like the condoms?
TIL: You can still buy them, even Trojan sells them wtf.
Do they make condoms from Israeli circumcised foreskin?
I did wonder this myself. Can it enter the body via normal usage? And if so, in what dose? Enough for us to care?
I don't make a habit of putting headphones in my mouth, but young children do things like that.
Wait.. What do you mean with shouldn't injest.. I thought it was perfectly fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito