Mark Cassanto & Associates

UK

"Children should use mobile phones for essential purposes only."

Britain's NRCP Acknowledges "Electromagnetic Fields Can Make People Sick."

BELGIUM:

"Children should avoid use of cell phones when the signal is weak."

INDIA:

"Children under 16 should be discouraged from using cell phones."

FRANCE:
"Moderate cell phone use is advised, especially among children."

NOTE: An advertising ban is in place now that promote selling cell phones to children.

RUSSIA:

"Children under 18 should not use cell phones."

ISRAEL:

"Children's use of cell phones should be limited."

GERMANY:

"Mobile phones don't belong in the hands of children."

CANADA:

Contact your MP to lobby for Health Canada to submit its data from the Interphone study, and as a regulatory body, to have Health Canada be in communication with other countries and their real concern of the real threat of a health epidemic. 

BUT, in Toronto Ontario

Health Department in May of 2008 released the following:

Children and Safe Cell Phone Use Fact Sheet

The Board of Health and Toronto City Council recently endorsed a Prudent Avoidance Policy on Cell Phone Use by Children and Youth

Most of the criticism, or even cynicism, comes from studies that are too short; but with the long term studies, it is these revealing results that everyone is waiting for.  See more of what the scientifc community is saying in the Resource Download section.

Ron Pawl, MD
Center for Pain Treatment and Rehabilitation
Lake Forest Hospital
Lake Forest, IL 60045, USA
ron@pawl.com
ron.pawl@hawaiiantel.net

The editorial by Dr Pawl is timely and discusses an emerging public health concern.

READ IT IN ITS ENTIRETY - Here.

This reignited debate has not escaped the attention of the US Congress, whose Subcommittee on Domestic Policy chaired by Congressman Dennis Kucinich held a landmark hearing regarding this topic on September 25, 2008. The proposed health ramifications of ubiquitous and chronic immersion in the electromagnetic fields (EMFs) of cell phones and transmission masts are not only limited to brain tumors but also include salivary gland tumors, male infertility, behavioral disturbances, and electro-hypersensitivity (previously “microwave sickness syndrome”) . Since the publication of the seminal BioInitiative Report in August 2007 by a multinational group of recognized scientists, physicians, and policy makers, important steps have been taken in many countries , urging evidence-based precaution as compelling new long-term epidemiologic data accrue from the Hardell group and World Health Organization–administered INTERPHONE consortium . It is recommended that serial age-adjusted primary central nervous system tumor incidence rates from databases, such as those of the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States, be carefully followed in time for trends. Although there is no currently proven mechanism via which cell phone radiation can cause neoplasia, it is notable that there are more than one dozen peer-reviewed papers from laboratories in at least 7 countries including the United States showing that cell phone or similar low-intensity EMFs can break DNA or modulate it structurally , despite comments stating otherwise . A simple precautionary step includes using a landline in preference to a cell phone whenever possible. If talking on a cell phone, a wired earpiece or speaker-phone mode should be used to increase the distance between the antenna (external or concealed) and the user's head. Restricting children's cell phone usage should also be strongly considered given the recent testimony before US Congress of Dr Ronald Herberman and Dr David Carpenter - click here to see the Sub-Committee transcript & video.

To give you an example of linking to the harm that is being done, the Center for Disease Control in the US estimated 20 years ago that children on the autistic spectrum were 4-5 in 10,000, but TODAY it is a staggering 1 in 500.  (www.cdc.gov).