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Mobile phone child safety guidelines ‘to be dropped’

Posted by smeddum on September 1, 2009

Using a mobile phone is no more harmful for children than taking a hot bath or exercising, according to a new government health leaflet.

Telegraph

By Chris Irvine

01 Sep 2009

At least nine out of 10 British 16-year-olds have their own handset, as do more than four in 10 primary schoolchildren.
Current advice from the Department of Health had said that research showed mobile phone use “affects brain activity”, although it conceded there were “significant gaps in our scientific knowledge”. Read the rest of this entry »

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Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

Posted by smeddum on August 16, 2008

Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

CHILDREN AND MOBILE PHONES:
THE HEALTH OF THE FOLLOWING GENERATIONS IS IN DANGER EMFacts (pdf)

Moscow, Russia 14 April 2008

For the first time in history, we face a situation when most children and teenagers in the world are
continuously exposed to the potentially adverse influence of the electromagnetic fields (EMF) from mobile
phones.
Electromagnetic field is an important biotropic factor, affecting not just a human health in general,
but also the processes of the higher nervous activity, including behavior and thinking. Radiation directly
affects human brain when people use mobile phones. Read the rest of this entry »

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