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HTTP:: EU to Introduce Decibel Limit for mp3 Players
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A new legislative initiative circulated by the European Commission (EC) suggests that all newly manufactured mp3 players to be sold in Europe should have a built-in, removable noise limit. The idea is meant to safeguard people from their own bad listening habits, as well as to spare travelers in public transportation vehicles from having to hear what goes on in someone else's headphones. Listening to music for many hours at strong volumes can permanently damage hearing, health experts warn.The EC announced that it made this recommendation after a recent scientific study showed that about one in ten music-player users was at risk of suffering from permanent hearing loss. Still, the legislators had no way of making the limit permanent, so their plan states that, if a user wants to skip the factory settings and take off the noise limit, he or she can do so at will, the BBC News reports. The recent survey also discovered that between 50 and 100 million people in Europe listened!
to portable music devices each day. Over a five-year period, listening to music at high volumes for more than one hour per day can lead to permanent damage, the same document states. Naturally, the large majority of the people listening to music on its headphones does so for more than one hour per day. Kee...
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