Radio frequencies and cancer: Robin roofs wants information campaigns

Written by Sandeep Nehra

The NGO Robin Roof called on Tuesday for information campaigns on the risks of mobile radio, a month after the ranking by the World Health Organization (WHO) of this technology in the category “possibly carcinogenic”.

“This radically new context requires the government to a new attitude vis-à-vis the technologies that use radio frequencies,” said the NGO in a letter Tuesday to the Minister of Ecology which AFP has obtained a copy.

Among the half-dozen measures requested, the NGO hopes in particular that the website Health-RF, financed half by the state and half by the telecommunications industry, “change its message on the absence of proof deleterious effects on health “taking into account the latest information from WHO.

Similarly, the NGOs request an information campaign targeted at young people and pregnant women, discouraging the use of mobile phones by the age of 14.

Industrialists, Robin Roofs requires the installation of the wireless box to an external switch that allows it to avoid constantly emits radio frequency in individuals mainly.

In schools, the NGO calls for “the eviction of the benefit of wireless internet connections wired.”

“None of these measures requires a law,” added the NGO said that the first step, changing the message of the government, “can be done immediately.”

“It is unrealistic to expect, as has been done so far, it offers the profession itself or take appropriate action protection of the population is a duty of public authorities that ‘they can not outsource, “recalls the NGO.