What are the health effects of radiofrequency radiation exposure?
Exposure to sufficiently high levels of RF EMR can heat biological tissue and potentially cause tissue damage. The amount of environmental RF EMR routinely encountered by the general public is too low to produce significant heating or increased body temperature. At low levels of exposure to RF EMR (ie field intensities lower than those that would produce measurable heating) the evidence for production of harmful biological effects is ambiguous and unproven. Although there have been studies reporting a range of biological effects at low levels, there has been no indication that such effects might constitute a human health hazard. The possibility of adverse health effects from the use of mobile phones is described in the ARPANSA fact-sheet Mobile Telephones Scientific Background.
