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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Robyn Quick

Check your cans! Big-name headphones may have "hazardous" materials in them

Sennheiser HD 620S headphones.

Whether they are an essential tool for your commute or your favourite way to jam out to music, headphones are a huge part of our daily lives.

But new research has suggested that these essential pieces of technology are hiding something rather nasty. ToxFree LIFE for All – a partnership of central European civil society groups – found that hazardous chemicals were present in every single pair of headphones used in the study, as reported by The Guardian.

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