**2.20 Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK, Finland, 2009)**

The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority stated in its 2009-report that there are no indications so far for long-term adverse health effects from radiofrequency radiation. However, everybody can reduce its own exposure easily if this is found useful.

phones. According to the Bundestag the exposure limits in force indeed offer sufficient

The "German Mobile Telecommunication Research Programme" (http://www.emfforschungsprogramm.de/) started in 2002 and came to an end in 2008. It contained 54 research projects on mobile telecommunication including many different topics (laboratory research, epidemiology, dosimetry) but also aspects of risk communication. The general conclusion was that there is *no reason to question the protective effect of current limit values. Yet, because of the remaining question on health risks from long-term exposure for adults and children and the existence of some studies showing effects one should remain careful with wireless* 

The German Commission on Radiological Protection (SSK) has issued a statement in which they reaffirm that there is no scientific evidence of a genotoxic effect (effects on the DNA) of

According to the German Federal office for radiation protection (BfS) recent studies have failed to demonstrate effects of mobile phone radiation on human fertility. No adverse effects were found on testes and sperm cells. The few papers that showed such effect(s) were considered of low or no scientific value. Experiments on animals have not shown relevant effects whereas *in vitro* studies only showed effects in case of thermal exposure

This report should be seen as an opinion document written by a limited number of international experts. It gives essentially a summary of different workshops that were held on mobile phones and children. The purpose of the report was to inform the public and authorities about the risks for children from the mobile phone technology. In the report on "Children's Health and RF EMF Exposure" the expert group concluded that *the review of the existing scientific literature does not support the assumption that children's health is affected by RF EMF exposure from mobile phones or base stations.* It is not very clear on what grounds this expert group was constituted. This study was supported by the telecom

The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority stated in its 2009-report that there are no indications so far for long-term adverse health effects from radiofrequency radiation.

**2.16 The German Mobile Telecommunication Research Programme (DMF, 2009)** 

**2.17 Commission on Radiological Protection (SSK, Germany, August 2009)** 

**2.19 German expert group on children by the Jülich research institute (2009)**  http://juwel.fz-juelich.de:8080/dspace/bitstream/2128/3683/1/Gesundheit\_16.pdf

**2.20 Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK, Finland, 2009)** 

However, everybody can reduce its own exposure easily if this is found useful.

radiofrequency fields or of an influence on gene regulation.

**2.18 The Bundesambt für Strahlenschutz (BfS, German, 2009)** 

protection against mobile phone radiation.

*communication technologies.* 

conditions.

industry.
