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Cancer and Cell Phones Revisited

Posted August 07, 2010 7:28 AM

Despite no definitive link between cellphones and cancer, recent legislation calls for sellers of mobile phones to inform users what level of radio frequency energy they are exposed to. According to the FCC, any specific absorption rate (SAR) ≤ 1.6 W/kg of body weight is considered safe. Nevertheless, San Francisco passed the Cell Phone Right-to-Know Ordinance. A similar bill is expected to be introduced in the U.S. Congress. Do you think it's better to be safe than sorry?

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Re: Cancer and Cell Phones Revisited

09/18/2010 3:45 AM

You need to view this site for information about pulsed radio causing problems

http://www.tetrawatch.net/tetra/index.php

Just part of the sites ingormation

The key question here is whether TETRA masts or handsets present a risk to health and well-being. Since TETRA has been used, and especially during the construction of the Airwave network, people have reported consistent reactions to the mast emissions, and to handset use. Much of this is described as electro-hypersensitivity (EHS), or microwave sickness. Some is much more serious. Such is the amount of this, that campaign groups all over the UK have sought official investigation: medical, environmental, and technical. The health effects are nothing to do with signal strengths, since these are well below the international guidelines (ICNIRP) on protection from acute thermal effects from radiation. The concern is with non-thermal biological effects, probably related to the coherent (regular, consistent) signal frequencies used by TETRA. These effects are not unique to TETRA: other mobile phone masts can do the same. What is different is the number of people affected, and how quickly they are affected.

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Re: Cancer and Cell Phones Revisited

12/13/2010 3:08 AM

Anti-tetra site is without science in its allegations. They use the common scare technique of "some say" and "may cause" and stay very far away from science.

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