Environmental Health Trust Reveals Risky Patterns of Cell Phone Use by Middle Schoolers

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Key figures in the arena of cell phone safety spoke today at a California City Council education forum in Berkeley. The impact of cell phones on children was a major theme of the day's speeches. Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, founder of Environmental Health Trust (EHT), cited several studies, including a recent report that EHT coauthored, on radiofrequency exposure among children. She also highlighted an important new New Zealand study led by Mary Redmayne finding that in-pocket use of cell phones by middle schoolers exposes their reproductive organs' to prolonged exposure to cell phone radiation. Additionally, she unveiled an important new UK report that calls for interventions to protect children from the long-term health risks of cell phone radiation.

Cell Phones and Children' Heads
According to the EHT report, children absorb twice as much microwave radiation from cell phones as adults, and radiation from cell phones carried in shirts or pants pockets is four to seven times higher than the guidelines set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which determines exposure guidelines in the United States.

The reason for the discrepancy, EHT says, is that the process to determine radiation exposure from cell phones involves the use of a mannequin model that approximates a 6-foot 2-inch tall, 220-pound man. Because this model head represents only about three percent of the population, the test will not accurately predict the radiation exposure of the other 97 percent, including children, nor does it estimate exposures from pocket use.

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