How much cell phone radiation is safe?

There has been intense debate recently about the risk assessment of cell phone exposure. The debate was provoked by the classification of cell phone radiation as 2B (possibly carcinogenic for humans) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organisation (WHO). A number of national and international institutions have doubts about the correctness of this classification, including the German Commission on Radiological Protection, which justifies its position on the basis of contradictory IARC data. Almost coinciding with this debate, an issue of the medical journal WMW - Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift has been published focusing on this main topic, featuring a number of papers based on scientifically reliable data and providing a sound scientific overview.   ‘We, the editors of WMW, are following the much debated topic of cell phone exposure with great interest,’ explained Dr Herbert Kurz, editor-in-chief of WMW, explicitly referring to several papers concerning the risk of cell phone radiation. ‘We hope these well-founded papers will help counter the imbalance between the data objectively available at the moment and the actual risk perception, and help bring the debate back down to a rational and scientifically sound level.’ The various full texts are available to any media representatives interested in them free of charge.     The articles on health aspects of mobile phones appear in the current issue of WMW - Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (vol. 161, issue 9/10). WMW is a journal published by Professional Media, Springer Media’s Austrian journal section. Springer Medizin is a leading supplier of specialist information on health care in Germany and Austria. Its range of products includes journals, newspapers, books and a number of online services for all groups of physicians, pharmacists, healthcare professionals and laypeople with an interest in medicine.

Source: Springer