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Misleading IET Press Release on EMFs, mobile phones and health
United Kingdom Created: 10 May 2012
In our opinion, the Institution of Engineering and Technology has issued another well spun and misleading press release stating that "there is no persuasive evidence that normal mobile phone use or adult exposure to pylons and powerlines causes harmful effects such as cancer". Its Biological Effects Policy Advisory Group (BEPAG) says that "the overwhelming majority of the evidence does not indicate that normal exposure to low-level electromagnetic fields has harmful health effects".

However, if you read their full Statement, it reports: "The searches revealed 726 relevant papers in 2010 and 2011 combined, 11% lower than in 2009/2010." ... "An analysis of those papers which contain new experimental data shows that, at electrical power frequencies (50 or 60 Hz), 80% (previously 81%) of the 113 papers report biological effects, whereas at mobile phone frequencies the figure is rather lower, 59% (previously 54%) of 170 papers.... Overall 75% of experimental studies report the detection of field effects, unchanged from 2009/2010."
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Source: Powerwatch.org, Alasdair Philips, 08 May 2012

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