Subject:  Another "leak" re Expert Group report (Dean)..
Date:     Wed, 10 May 2000 064848 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.......Margaret has forwarded another story about the Sir William
Stewart "Expert Group" report which is due to be published tomorrow.
This one appeared in the London Times.....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 05:25:17 EDT
From: DEANBT29@aol.com
To:  roy@emfguru.com
Subject: F. Times 10/05/00

FYI

regards

Margaret
         
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>From the Times, May 10th, 2000


Mobile phones may put children's health at risk
By Rosemary Bennett, Political Correspondent
Published: May 9 2000 20:48GMT | Last Updated: May 9 2000 23:19GMT
 

 
UK government ministers are to order urgent new guidelines restricting 
children's use of mobile phones following a report from leading scientists 
suggesting they could be at risk. 

A government-commissioned study, to be published on Thursday, will say 
children should be discouraged from using mobiles because they are more 
vulnerable to radiation emissions. Sir Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer, 
will be asked to work with the author of the report, Sir William Stewart, of 
Tayside University, to draw up new guidelines on mobile phone use. 

Sir William's report will dismay mobile phone companies, for whom the youth 
market represents an estimated one-in-four of all sales. 

Publication of the report comes within days of the Treasury's gaining a 
£22.5bn windfall from the auction of third-generation mobile phone licences. 
During the course of the auction, selective leaks to the press suggested the 
government-sponsored report would give mobiles a clean bill of health. 

Although the report will stress there is no evidence currently available that 
mobiles damage health, it will raise a number of concerns. It will recommend 
much more research is done, especially on the little-understood non- thermal 
effects of mobiles. 

The government is acutely aware that the warning on health risks to children 
could spark alarm among the UK's estimated 24m mobile users. 

"We will publish the full report and let the public see what the conclusions 
are for themselves, but then we need Sir William Stewart and Sir Liam to sit 
down with other scientists and draw up detailed guidelines," said one 
Whitehall official. 

Sir Liam will be asked to look at whether a minimum age limit would be 
appropriate and whether children should be told to limit the length and 
number of calls per day. 

Government officials say ministers were intentionally not shown copies of the 
report until the end of last week - after the end of the third- generation 
mobile phone auction. 

The committee of 12 experts was set up last year after reports that radiation 
from mobiles could trigger memory loss, Alzheimer's disease and cancer. The 
committee looked at all the available research including two that showed 
radiation from phones stimulates the brain. 

The report is expected to to recommend stricter planning controls on the 
siting of transmission masts, advising that they are kept away from schools, 
hospitals and residential areas. 


 
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