Subject:  Cell phone emission profiles (Moran)..
Date:     Fri, 26 Nov 1999 041653 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.....Many thanks to Kathy for this......

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:59:10 PST
From: kathy moran 
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Re: Cell phone emission profiles

Dear Guru,

In answer to Nigel Hargreaves' queries, I'll leave the technical questions 
for those with a better scientific understanding but there are two things 
that might be interesting.

1. The Amercian SAR guideline of 1.6W/Kg is meaningless because of the 
testing procedure. In Europe Cenelec has advised that the SAR reading must 
be taken when the phone is in one of four standard holding positions. When I 
was researching an article for a British newspaper recently I discovered 
that American companies may test the phones in as many different positions 
as they like until they find a position where the SAR meets the guideline 
and then claim they had complied with the safety standard. So even if you 
know the manufacturer's SAR, you still don't know how much radiation you are 
absorbing.

In recent SAR tests at the IMST in Germany 20 phones were tested against the 
American standard of 1.6W/Kg. One phone the Phillips Genie 900 with a 
retractable antenna gave a result of 2.67W/Kg.

I wrote in my article that it had broken American safety standards. Various 
industry representatives then contacted me to point out that this wasn't 
true. They did not dispute the 2.67W/Kg reading, only that because the phone 
had been tested in the suggested Cenelec positions and not in the 
manufacturer's chosen position it did not break the standard.

2. If you are interested in the difference between analogue and digital 
phones, Kjell Hansson-Mild et al at the National Institute of Working Life 
in Sweden have published a very interesting study on the symptoms reported 
by users of analogue and digital mobile phones.

It is Arbetslivsrapport 1998:23 and copies at around £20 are available from 
the NIWL on 0046 87 30 98 00.

Hope this is useful.

Kathy Moran.
Freelance journalist,
London.






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