What is the World Health Organisation (WHO) doing on this topic?
The World Health Organisation is engaged in an important EMF (ElectroMagnetic Fields) research programme, together with institutions from various countries, since 1996. It also has the task of setting forth advice on the effects of electromagnetic fields on human health. Report 304/May 2006 looked at mobile telephony base stations. It re-asserts the conclusion that currently there is no scientific evidence leading us to believe that a danger for those living near to a base station exists, so long as reference levels are not exceeded. With regards to mobile devices, the World Health Organisation leads the Interphone project, a very broad epidemiological study covering 13 countries, which sets to observe over 20,000 people, both healthy and suffering from various forms of cancer, to establish whether there is a link between radiofrequency emissions and this disease. The first results published so far have shown evidence of no such link.
