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FDA, It's Time To Study Cellphone
Radiation
Popular Science
Journalist: Suzanne Kantra Kirschner, Technology Editor
August, 2002
Here we go again: In June, Darius
Leszczynski of Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority found that an
hour of cellphone exposure shrinks cultured human cells. The resulting gaps
between the cells, the study suggests, could allow toxins to enter the brain. As
quickly as several scientists dismissed the study—saying the shrinkage was
probably caused simply by heat—Gro Harlem Brundtland, General-Director of the
World Health Organization, issued a warning to parents to limit cellphone use in
children.
This is the latest volley in the decade-old debate over the dangers of cellphone
radiation, a controversy that has spawned a cottage industry hawking everything
from hands-6.00 devices to radiation blockers. Despite countless studies—most
of which were too small or too partisan—we still don't know if cellphones are
dangerous. Even Leszczynski admits his study proves nothing definitively, adding
that large-scale human testing must be done.
With 137 million cellphone users in the U.S., and with more radiation-intensive
broadband applications in the offing, the time for such testing is now.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which shares jurisdiction over
cellphones with the FCC, should develop a plan to definitively study the
long-term effects of cellphone use.
It's time to put this issue to rest, and only the government's deep pockets can
do so.
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