One of the biggest research studies undertaken into the risks associated with mobile phone use has concluded that they do not pose any health risks.
The six-year study by the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme has stated that mobile phones cannot be associated with “any biological or adverse health effects”. The report also maintained that there is no connection between short term mobile phone use and brain cancer.
That said, the long-term implications remain unclear because the technology has not been around long enough, according to MTHR. Few participants in the study had used a mobile for more than 10 years.
Since 2001, 28 teams have spent £8.8m of government and industry money researching the findings in the 2007 report.
The research programme carried out the largest ever study of electrical hypersensitivity and found no evidence that the “unpleasant symptoms” experienced by sufferers have anything to with exposure to signals from mobile phones or base stations. It also investigated whether mobile phones can affect cells and tissue beyond just heating them but, again, no evidence could be found.
“This is a very substantial report from a large research programme,” said Professor Lawrie Challis, chairman of MTHR. “The work reported today has all been published in respected peer-reviewed scientific or medical journals. The results are so far reassuring but there is still a need for more research, especially to check that no effects emerge from longer-term phone use from adults and from use by children.”
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