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Netherlands to re-examine mobile phone health risk
Last Updated: 2003-02-05 13:00:05 -0400 (Reuters Health)
AMSTERDAM -- A council that advises the Dutch government on health issues has
recommended it take a closer look at the health effects of electromagnetic
fields emitted from mobile phones and the base station masts that transmit
their signals.
Responding to a request from Parliament for advice on possible health effects
of radio-frequency emissions, the Health Council said Tuesday that a
large-scale human study should be conducted.
Currently a small study is underway at the semi-private TNO Research
Institute, involving people who have complained of health problems they
associate with radiation exposure.
The Health Council now recommends that study be expanded into a long-term,
large cohort study. It also recommends centralising and internationalising the
research.
"I think people are uneasy with the lack data on phone use and disease," said
Eric van Rongen, who works on the Electromagnetic Field Committee of the
Health Council.
"But we don't have a lot of years of study of this issue, just five or six
years--that's not a lot."
Last year, a three-year Australian study in mice found that radio emissions
from mobile phones did not trigger the growth of tumors. A replication of the
study was planned in Italy.
On the other hand, a Finnish study found that the radiation can trigger
changes in human cells that might affect the brain
The Netherlands has seen the same explosion in the use of mobile telephones as
many parts of the world, especially among teenagers and children.
About 74% of all Dutch people owned at least one mobile telephone in 2001,
according to Central Bureau for Statistics' figures.
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