The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)...
The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) released a report that found little cause for concern that exposure to radio frequency (RF) radiation from cellphones is a danger to the public health. The FAS was asked to…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
prepare the report by the Swedish government. “More than 15 provocation studies (single or double blind) have been conducted on symptoms attributed to exposure to RF fields,” the report said (http://xrl.us/bnoh3w). “These studies have not been able to demonstrate that people experience symptoms or sensations more often when the fields are turned on than when they are turned off. One longitudinal study has looked at frequency of symptoms in relation to environmental exposure and this study found no association between exposure and symptoms.” There is no “absolute certainty” that cellphones don’t pose a health risk, but the risks are much better understood today than they were 10 years ago, FAS said. “Overall, the data on brain tumor and mobile telephony do not support an effect of mobile phone use on tumor risk, in particular when taken together with national cancer trend statistics throughout the world,” the report said. “Extensive research for more than a decade has not detected anything new regarding interaction mechanisms between radiofrequency fields and the human body and has found no evidence for health risks below current exposure guidelines."