Recently, the news media has reported on a Swedish study, which showed a five-fold increase in malignant brain tumours among young people who used a cell phone for at least a year before the age of 20. This study was included in the peer-reviewed journal, *Pathophysiology, along with 15 other studies from researchers in six different countries, which all showed cause for concern. As in the past, Health Canada reaffirmed its position that it “currently sees no scientific reason to consider the use of cell phones as unsafe. There is no convincing evidence of increased risk of disease from exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields from cell phones.”
This is hard to fathom, as all of the independent studies tracking those who used cell phones for over 10 years show increased risk – all of them. Health Canada was also privy to data from the six-year, $28.5 million research program by the North American wireless industry, which showed single and double strand DNA breakage and damage to cell nuclei from cell phone use way back in 1999.
With millions of Canadians using cell phones, and with parents providing their children phones for “safety,” Health Canada has a duty to take action to protect all of us. It took decades for [Health Canada] to raise the alarm about tobacco. Children and parents can’t afford to wait decades for warnings about products from an industry that uses the tobacco [industry’s] public relations playbook.
– Milt Bowling, president and CEO
Clean Energy Foundation
(*L.Hardell, etal., Epidemiological evidence for an association between use of wire less phones and tumor diseases, Pathophysiology(2009),doi:10.1016/j.pathophys.2009.01.003)
