Best-selling Apple product 'has been exposing us to CANCER'

Apple has been accused of exposing users to cancer successful a caller suit that claims the tech giant's Watch bands contain high levels of toxic 'forever chemicals.' 

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are chemicals that are wide utilized successful manufacturing everything from cloth to nonstick pans to cosmetics.

They don't interruption down successful the assemblage oregon environment, hence the nickname 'forever chemicals, and person been linked to birth defects, accrued hazard of prostate, kidney and testicular crab and fertility problems.

The suit draws connected a caller survey that tested 22 ticker bands purchased successful the US from assorted brands, finding that 15 of them contained PFAS chemicals and immoderate were made by the tech elephantine and Apple Watch Nike.

Apple says each 3 are made from fluoroelastomer, a synthetic rubbers that incorporate fluorine, but the suit alleges that the tech elephantine wrongfully concealed the information that this synthetic rubber contains PFAS. 

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday successful the Northern District of California, specifically alleges that the Sport Band, the Ocean Band, and the Nike Sport Band that ships with Nike-branded Apple Watches contain precocious levels of PFAS. 

The plaintiffs' cardinal statement is that Apple knowingly and willfully did not pass consumers which products incorporate the harmful chemicals, adjacent done the Apple Watch is marketed arsenic a health-promoting device.

'Instead, successful respect of watches, [Apple] continues to fell the beingness of PFAS astatine the constituent of acquisition and otherwise,' the suit reads. 

'[Apple] could person avoided the unreasonable information and biology hazard with disposable manufacturing alternatives, and its nonaccomplishment to bash truthful portion continuing to committedness consumers health, wellness, and sustainability is unlawful, unfair, and fraudulent nether user extortion laws,' it continues.

The plaintiffs besides allege that Apple's actions interruption California's unfair competition, advertizing and user ineligible remedy laws, and impeach the institution of fraud, fraudulent inducement, concealment, misrepresentation, negligence and unjust enrichment.

The suit seeks people certification, which is similar a mini-trial successful which the allegations are examined and argued by each side's attorneys. 

It besides seeks an injunction to halt the merchantability of the alleged PFAS-containing ticker bands, and monetary penalties. 

Apple did not instantly respond to DailyMail.com's petition for comment. 

The survey connected PFAS successful astute watches, conducted by researchers astatine Notre Dame University, states that 21 percent of US adults are believed to usage a astute watch, and the mean idiosyncratic wears theirs for 11 hours per day. 

Researchers focused connected fluoroelastomers, and recovered that galore of the astute ticker bands they tested were manufactured utilizing this benignant of PFAS, likely owed to its absorption to sweat, tegument oils and lotions.

The researchers published their findings successful the journal  Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 

The suit straight references this study, stating that the 3 Apple Watch bands successful question 'are toxic to consumers owed to the beingness of PFAS.' 

Traditionally, researchers person concluded that the astir communal mode that PFAS takes up residence successful the assemblage is by being swallowed oregon inhaled. 

However, immoderate studies person suggested that prolonged tegument interaction with a PFAS chemic tin let it to sorb into the skin, but it's unclear if this is communal oregon if it has an effect connected the body.

'Few studies truthful acold person been published regarding the dermal absorption of PFAS,' said Alyssa Wicks, pb writer of the survey and a postgraduate pupil successful the Department of Physics and Astronomy astatine Notre Dame University, successful a statement. 

'One nonfiction published earlier this twelvemonth by a European probe radical recovered that a mates types of PFAS had important transportation done the skin. 

'That archetypal survey lone examined astir 20 of the 14,000 known types of PFAS, and much studies are needed to amended recognize however PFAS question done the skin.' 

But the class-action lawsuit, which includes anyone who has purchased an Apple Watch with 1 of the fluoroelastomer bands, argues that the toxic substance is 'absorbed by the tegument during daily, all-day agelong usage arsenic intended.'

What's more, it states that wearing the offending bands connected the undersides of the wrists heightens the PFAS absorption rate, 'especially considering sweat tin summation the complaint of absorption.'