No Cellphone Dangers – Dutch Health Council
There is no evidence that radiation from mobile phones or mobile phone and TV towers is harmful to people, but more investigation is needed, the Dutch Health Council said in a new report on Wednesday.
There is no evidence that radiation from mobile phones or mobile phone and TV towers is harmful to people, but more investigation is needed, the Dutch Health Council said in a new report on Wednesday.
The Electromagnetic Fields Committee of the council, which advises the Dutch government, studied fresh research from around the world published between 2003 and October 2005, and said the outcome of studies proved either inconclusive or did not meet scientific criteria.
One 2003 Dutch TNO study into the effect of UMTS radio base stations, which emit and receive the signals to and from third-generation mobile phones, is currently being replicated in several other countries. The TNO study alone, however, cannot prove health damage or a reduced feeling of well-being.
The council disagrees with the conclusion drawn in two other studies — one in Naila, Germany, and another in Netanya, Israel — which found a connection between living in the proximity of a base station and the occurrence of cancer, because the design and execution of the studies was inadequate.
Five more studies, which measured an increased risk of leukemia or any other form of cancer as a result of proximity to radio and TV transmitters in Hawaii, Sydney, Britain, the Vatican and Korea, also proved inconclusive or invalid after analysis.
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