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“Smartwatch bands have been found to contain high levels of a potentially harmful chemical that researchers believe can be absorbed through the skin, raising the question of whether the popular accessory could pose a hidden public health risk.

A University of Notre Dame study published by the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science and Technology Letters at the end of 2024, found the wearable tech contained significant amounts of ‘forever chemicals,’ per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—specifically perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA).

The author of the study, Graham Peaslee, a professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, told Newsweek that ‘we found that it was almost entirely PFHxA leaching out of the wristbands.'” …