**2.28 Health Canada, July (2009)**

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/radiation/cons/stations/index-eng.php http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/radiation/cons/radiofreq/index-eng.php http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/radiation/radio\_guide-lignes\_direct-eng.php

Health Canada is the Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances. It publishes different documents and fact sheets (see for example website addresses given above). According to these the consensus of the scientific community is that RF energy from cell phone towers is too low to cause adverse health effects in humans. In fact, worst-case RF exposure levels emitted from cell phone towers are typically thousands of times below those specified by science-based exposure standards. The RF energy from cell phones also poses no confirmed health risk but it is acknowledged that cell phone use is not entirely risk-free due to distraction, possible interference with some (medical) devices or other sensitive electronic equipment.

The Health Protection Agency (formerly National Radiological Protection Board) issues different reports and information booklets on different aspects of (amongst others) mobile phone effects. According to their 2010 statement "there are thousands of published scientific papers covering research about the effects of various types of radio waves on cells, tissues, animals and people. The scientific consensus is that, apart from the increased risk of a road accident due to mobile phone use when driving, there is no clear evidence of adverse health

The ministry states in a brochure that there is no scientific evidence that cellular phones are hazardous to man. The brochure yet recommends a reasonable use of a mobile phone and

**2.27 Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA, 2009)** 

In an update of its fact sheet on mobile telephony and health ARPANSA says that "*there is essentially no evidence that microwave exposure from mobile telephones causes cancer, and no clear evidence that such exposure accelerates the growth of an already-existing cancer. More research on this issue has been recommended. "Users concerned about the possibility of health effects can minimize their exposure to the microwave emissions by limiting the duration of mobile telephone calls, using a mobile telephone which does not have the antenna in the handset or using a 'hands-free' attachment. "There is no clear evidence in the existing scientific literature that the use of mobile telephones poses a long-term* 

*public health hazard (although the possibility of a small risk cannot be ruled out).*"

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/radiation/cons/stations/index-eng.php http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/radiation/cons/radiofreq/index-eng.php

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/radiation/radio\_guide-lignes\_direct-eng.php

Health Canada is the Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances. It publishes different documents and fact sheets (see for example website addresses given above). According to these the consensus of the scientific community is that RF energy from cell phone towers is too low to cause adverse health effects in humans. In fact, worst-case RF exposure levels emitted from cell phone towers are typically thousands of times below those specified by science-based exposure standards. The RF energy from cell phones also poses no confirmed health risk but it is acknowledged that cell phone use is not entirely risk-free due to distraction, possible interference with some (medical) devices or other sensitive

**2.25 Reports from the Health Protection Agency (HPA)** 

effects from the use of mobile phones or from phone masts".

**2.26 The Austrian ministry of health (2009)** 

www.arpansa.gov.au/pubs/eme/fact1.pdf

**2.28 Health Canada, July (2009)** 

electronic equipment.

http://www.hpa.org.uk/

limited use by children.

www.arpansa.gov.au/
