Will Your Child’s Cell Phone Give Her Cancer?

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Anyone who’s looked at the blog knows that the answer to Will My Cell Phone Give Me Cancer? is: we don’t know.

The answer for children is: we don’t know but it’s more likely.

Here’s the most recent abstract from the people who make plastic heads and irradiate them.  153% more radiation, and ten times the absorption into the bone marrow.  Just one more reason to not have your children attached to a beeping ear parasite.

Electromagn Biol Med. 2011 Oct 14. [Epub ahead of print]

Exposure Limits: The underestimation of absorbed cell phone radiation, especially in children.

Gandhi OP, Morgan LL, de Salles AA, Han YY, Herberman RB, Davis DL.

Source

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City ,  Utah ,  USA.

Abstract

The existing cell phone certification process uses a plastic model of the head called the Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin (SAM), representing the top 10% of U.S. military recruits in 1989 and greatly underestimating the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for typical mobile phone users, especially children. A superior computer simulation certification process has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) but is not employed to certify cell phones. In the United States, the FCC determines maximum allowed exposures. Many countries, especially European Union members, use the “guidelines” of International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), a non governmental agency. Radiofrequency (RF) exposure to a head smaller than SAM will absorb a relatively higher SAR. Also, SAM uses a fluid having the average electrical properties of the head that cannot indicate differential absorption of specific brain tissue, nor absorption in children or smaller adults. The SAR for a 10-year old is up to 153% higher than the SAR for the SAM model. When electrical properties are considered, a child’s head’s absorption can be over two times greater, and absorption of the skull’s bone marrow can be ten times greater than adults. Therefore, a new certification process is needed that incorporates different modes of use, head sizes, and tissue properties. Anatomically based models should be employed in revising safety standards for these ubiquitous modern devices and standards should be set by accountable, independent groups.

PMID:

21999884

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