Noise of consumer products: Consequences for environmental health

In this paper, a consumer product is defined as a good or service which is purchased and used by an individual in contradistinction to a manufacturer who produces the good or service and a wholesaler or retailer who distributes and sells it. Noise may be defined as the “most impertinent of all interruptions because it interrupts or even crushes our own thoughts. This definition of noise has the advantage that it covers both the perceptions of the originator of sound who likes and does not reflect on it and the bystanders for whom the sound is unwanted.