{"id":438,"date":"2025-01-24T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:34:28","slug":"apple-watch-bands-safe-to-wear-says-company-after-toxic-chemicals-report-and-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/apple-watch-bands-safe-to-wear-says-company-after-toxic-chemicals-report-and-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch bands safe to wear, says company, after toxic chemicals report and lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Apple-Watch-bands-safe-to-wear-says-company-after-toxic-chemicals-report-and-lawsuit.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Watch<\/a> bands are safe to wear, says the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">company<\/a>, after concerns were expressed about the presence of PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances) in a number of smartwatch bands.<\/p>\n<p>PFAS has been linked to a number of health concerns, and is known as a \u201cforever chemical\u201d as it doesn\u2019t break down in the body or the environment \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,apple-watch,environment\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"987382\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/01\/24\/apple-watch-bands-safe-to-wear-says-company-after-toxic-chemicals-report-and-lawsuit\/#more-987382\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Watch bands are safe to wear, says the company, after concerns were expressed about the presence of PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elidthai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}