PR, Radiation And Bad Science Australian IT Journalist: Stewart Fist July 25, 2000 This is the Information Age. Right? And Australia is the Lucky Country, the Smart Country, or the Knowledge Nation, depending on which academic, lobbyist or politician you talk to. Meanwhile, Kim Beazley’s Labor Party has put out to pasture the only science […]
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Would Mad Cows Use Mobile Phones?
Would Mad Cows Use Mobile Phones? IT Director July 24, 2000 It’s niggling doubt time. Do mobile phones push out harmful radiation or not? Let’s ask the scientists. Trouble is, can we trust them? It isn’t a case of corruption, but contradictory evidence that is then used by our own, dear politicians to promote their […]
B.C.’s Cellphone Radiation Levels Safe
B.C.’s Cellphone Radiation Levels Safe Vancouver Sun Journalist: Jeff Lee July 24, 2000 Cellular phones sold here all have radiation levels considered safe by the federal government, but the levels vary greatly from phone to phone, according to figures obtained by The Vancouver Sun. Cellphone makers are required to file radiation data with the U.S. […]
Cell Phone Industry To Publish Cell Phone Radiation Data
Cell Phone Industry To Publish Radiation Data CNN July 17, 2000 The U.S. cellular telephone industry will start publishing information on the amount of radiation that enters users’ heads when they use various wireless phones. CNN has learned that the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is going to require manufacturers to submit data — called SAR’s […]
Cellular Phones To Carry Radiation Level Label
Cellular Phone To Carry Radiation Level Label New York Times Journalist: Simon Romero July 19, 2000 Moving to ease concern over possible health risks from cell phones, the largest manufacturers of cellular telephones are planning to disclose on their packages the radiation levels emitted from the devices they sell. Under a proposal submitted by the […]
Help! My Cell Phone Is Glowing
Help! My Cell Phone Is Glowing MSNBC Journalist: Brock N. Meeks July 18, 2000 Atomic cell phones? A leading trade group wants boxes and instruction booklets to disclose cell phone radiation levels. The leading cellular industry trade group has ordered wireless phone makers to tell the public how much radiation their phones emit. The information […]
What Health Risks Do You Face Using Your Smartphone?
What Health Risks Do You Face Using Your Mobile Phone? CNET News Journalist: Corey Grice July 18, 2000 At the behest of a major wireless industry trade group and amid heightening concerns about potential health risks, many smartphones will soon carry information about radiation levels. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) yesterday announced plans to […]
Cell Phone Cover Advert ‘Misleading’
Consumers are being mislead by many companies claiming to provide protection from cell phone radiation and simple do not! One of the biggest offenders is a product referred to as a Pong Case. Beware Don’t Get Played By Pong Cases Cell Phone Radiation is No Game! Other outright frauds have been asked to withdraw advertisements […]
Government Responds On Cell Phone Report
Government Responds On Cell Phone Report Accounting Web June 29, 2000 The Government has published its response to the Cell Phone and Health report from the independent expert group (Stewart group). It accepts the conclusions of the risk assessment of cell phone technology set out in the report and agrees, in line with […]
Cell Phone Standards ‘Fail To Reflect Risk’
Cell Phone Standards ‘Fail To Reflect Risk’ The Courier-Mail Journalist: Sean Parnell June 21, 2000 The Australian Senate has been told that mobile telephone standards in the country do not adequately reflect health risks. On 20 June 2000, principal scientific officer at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, Peter French, called for tougher restrictions on […]
U.S. To Oversee New Cell Phone Safety Studies
U.S. To Oversee New Cell Phone Safety Studies Reuters Journalist: Lisa Richwine June 9, 2000 U.S. health officials said on Thursday they would oversee new industry-funded studies to address lingering questions about whether radiation from cellular phones may be harmful to users. The Food and Drug Administration said it would recommend the research design and […]
FDA To Scrutinize Cell Phone Safety
FDA To Scrutinize Cell Phone Safety Bloomberg News June 8, 2000 The Food and Drug Administration says it will supervise an industry-funded research project to examine whether cellular phone users may be harmed by the energy emitted from the devices. The FDA and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) have signed an agreement under which […]
ACA Raises Bar On Mobile Safety
ACA Raises Bar On Mobile Safety West Australian Journalist: David Hutting May 30, 2000 On 29 May 2000, the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) says it is updating cell phone radiation regulations. They will widen from applying to devices in the 800MHz to 900MHz range to covering all mobile phone handsets and base stations, cordless phone […]
How Dangerous Is Radiation From Cell Phones?
How Dangerous Are Our Cell Phones? We Just Don’t Know The Express May 28, 2000 Consumers are still confused over the safety of mobile phones despite Government efforts to clear up the issue, a Sunday Express poll has revealed. The public are still unclear over the health risks, including claims that radiation from handsets can […]
Call For PR Drive On Cell Phone Dangers
MK’s Call For PR Drive On Cell phone Dangers Jerusalem Post Journalist: Judy Siegal May 17, 2000 The Knesset Science and Technology Committee yesterday called for information campaigns among parents and youngsters “on the dangers of excessive use of cellular phones,” but it did not call for a prohibition of use by children and teenagers. […]
Cell Phone Radiation Can Make Your Mercury Tooth Fillings Poisonous
Mobiles Turn Your Fillings Poisonous The Mirror May 17, 2000 Mobile phones can release poisonous mercury from fillings causing brain damage, an expert warned yesterday. Scientists have discovered that electrical fields, like those given off by mobiles, can activate the mercury, giving off a gas. Many experts believe the fumes attack the brain’s central nervous […]
Worm Study Raises More Cellular Radiation Worries
Worm Study Raises More Cellular Radiation Worries Newsbytes Journalist: Steve Gold May 16, 2000 A study due to be published on May 25 by Nature, the British science journal, casts doubt on industry claims that cellular radiation from mobile phones does not effect human tissue. The report, which looked at the effects of microwave radiation, […]
Vital evidence of harmful effects on children from cell phone radiation
Risk From Mobile Masts Was Hidden The Observer Journalist: Sarah Ryle May 14, 2000 Vital evidence of harmful effects on children from transmitter masts was kept from the expert group which last week reported on mobile phone safety. The independent panel asked the government agency acting as its secretariat, the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB), […]
Limit the time children should use cell phones
British Mobile Phone Report Nothing To Worry About According To Finnish Researchers, But Danes More Cautious Hufvudstadsbladet May 12, 2000 British experts have reported findings that support a limitation of the time children should use mobile phones, but Finnish researchers are doubtful. There is no reason to be too concerned over the British report, according […]
Health Fears For The Mobile Phone Generation
Health Fears For The Mobile Phone Generation Western Daily Press May 12, 2000 After playing computer games and surfing the Internet, mobile phones are the latest craze for youngsters. Already one in four of Britain’s 24 million mobile phone users are aged under 18, which means that more than a third of all youngsters has […]
Scientist Urges Curbs On Children’s Use Of Cell Phones
Scientist Urges Curbs On Children’s Use Of Mobiles Reuters Journalist: Edna Fernandes May 12, 2000 Children should be discouraged from using mobile telephones because of potential health risks, the chief of a British government-commissioned inquiry into the phones’ safety said on Thursday. Sir William Stewart of Tayside University in Scotland said however that there was […]
The Dilemma Over Mobiles That Menace Our Children
The Dilemma Over Mobiles That Menace Our Children The Express May 12, 2000 New guidance on the safety of mobile phones has left worried parents confused over whether they should allow their children to use them. The Government-commissioned Stewart Report warns that children are particularly vulnerable to potential risks and should avoid using mobiles unless […]
Britain Urges Caution On Mobile Phone Use
Britain Urges Caution On Mobile Phone Use Reuters Journalist: Edna Fernandes May 11, 2000 Government-backed scientists have urged parents to curb children’s use of mobile phones and promised tougher rules for transmitter masts as a precaution against potential health risks from radiation. The warning on public health came in a report that ministers said was […]
Mobile Phone Safety Chaos
Mobile Phone Safety Chaos This Is London Journalist: Jo Revill May 11, 2000 Parents are today left in total confusion over whether to let their children use mobile phones. The independent group of experts investigating the risk says it is possible children may suffer harmful health effects due to minute biological changes occurring in the […]
