Substances include chemicals that can cause cancer, neurodevelopmental problems, and the feminisation of males
  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
    1·
    9 minutes ago

    This sounds overblown. There’s no direct link to any study in the Guardian article, nor in any of the similar articles that came out today.

    Searching ToxFree project got me this site, but skimming over this I couldn’t find anything with “headphones”.

    Some other terms got me to ToxFree Life for all, but that’s just the partition without any research either.

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    14 minutes ago

    This is what they found:

    Bisphenol A (BPA) appeared in 98% of samples, and its substitute, bisphenol S (BPS), was found in more than three-quarters. Synthetic chemicals used to stiffen plastic, BPA and BPS mimic the action of oestrogen inside organisms, causing a range of adverse effects

    It doesn’t say how much. Remember to only handle receipt paper with gloves and never wet hands. /s

    Seriously though, we should figure out as a society what is toxic.

  • jonesy@aussie.zone
    51·
    2 hours ago

    I’m all for reducing harm from these toxic substances, but are there any studies showing these stances pose actual risk under normal use?

      • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        21·
        20 minutes ago

        Is it? I find it funny. Because you have people who lose their shit over tofu having estrogen turning men into women (aka soyboys) but they are too dumb to realize that it is a different type of estrogen (phytoestrogen).

        But if we extrapolate that all estrogen (or estrogen response producing) is big bad scary then OPs comment is spot on with my own lived experiences. Just this past Christmas season my BIL was visiting and this came up.

        The article states:

        Bisphenol A (BPA) appeared in 98% of samples, and its substitute, bisphenol S (BPS), was found in more than three-quarters. Synthetic chemicals used to stiffen plastic, BPA and BPS mimic the action of oestrogen inside organisms, causing a range of adverse effects including the feminisation of males, early onset puberty in girls, and cancer. Previous studies have shown that bisphenols can migrate from synthetic materials into sweat, and that they can be absorbed through the skin.

        So if tofu is bad then yeah…people should lose their shit over this too. But im sure you thought about all of that before making your one line reactionary zinger, right?

    • ThotDragon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      33·
      2 hours ago

      Article only mentions that some substances were detected as present and didn’t have any information on how much was present or show a plausible method of those chemicals reaching areas of the body where they would have the effects they allege.