U.S. FDA: Cell Phone Radiation Is Safe
July 6… The FDA has closed down its Web site, Cell Phone Facts: Consumer Information on Wireless Phones. In its place, the agency has posted a few Web pages to assure the public that RF radiation from mobile phones is safe.
The new text on the Health Issues page is limited to just 330 words. It opens: “Many people are concerned that cell phone radiation will cause cancer or other serious health hazards. The weight of scientific evidence has not linked cell phones with any health problems.” Even in the small amount of space devoted to the topic, the FDA reiterates this no-risk message over and over again. In the second paragraph, the agency advises: “The majority of studies published have failed to show an association between exposure to RF from a cell phone and health problems.”
And, does it once more in the next paragraph: “Whereas high levels of RF can produce health effects (by heating tissue), exposure to low-level RF that does not produce heating effects causes no known adverse health effects.”
The FDA is taking no chances. The same theme is repeated many more times. Here’s the FDA on:
Children and Cell Phones: “The scientific evidence does not show a danger to any users of cell phones from RF exposure, including children and teenagers”;
Reducing Exposures: “If there is a risk from being exposed to radiofrequency energy (RF) from cell phones—and at this point we do not know that there is—it is probably very small”;
and
Research: “Is there a connection between RF and certain health problems? The results of most studies conducted to date say no. In addition, attempts to replicate and confirm the few studies that have shown a connection have failed.”
The old Web pages included references to new research studies, especially those from the Interphone study. These have all been deleted. The brief discussion of risks to children cites the Stewart report, issued nine years ago (MWN, M/J00, p.1). (It was the first to advise that children should be discouraged from using cell phones.) The FDA dismisses this warning too: “[The Stewart report’s] recommendation to limit cell phone use by children was strictly precautionary; it was not based on scientific evidence that any health hazard exists.” The FDA
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U.S. FDA: Cell Phone Radiation Is Safe
Source: Microwavenews.com
Date: 07/01/2009
