Children who use mobile (cell) phones are absorbing dangerous levels of microwave radiation that are 10 times more than the amount adult users are exposed to – and they are at least twice over safety limits, scientists have revealed this week.
They absorb twice as much radiation to their heads, three times the level in the hippocampus and hypothalamus regions of the brain and eyes, and 10 times more radiation to the bone marrow compared to an adult.
Scientists from the US Environmental Health Trust, who made the discovery, are calling on new parameters for safe levels of radiation that are based on body size, and that take into account the fact that children are using the phones.
Children in the US are absorbing levels of radiation that are double the safe upper limit set by the country’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), say the researchers.
(Source: Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 2011; 111014062656002).
