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Mobile phones unlikely to harm human health, scientists find
12 December 2014 - 10:07 | Interesting information
The magnetic fields created by mobile phones and power lines are not harmful to human health, the University of Manchester has found.
Several studies have suggested that electromagnetic fields emitted from mobile devices and power cables could cause infertility and cancer, including research in the 1970s which suggested they could be linked to childhood leukaemia.
Consequently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has categorised low frequency magnetic fields as ‘possibly carcinogenic’ while the NHS advises against using mobiles for long periods, and warns against children using them for non-essential calls.
It was thought that magnetic fields could harm key proteins in the human body. But the University of Manchester has now found that they have no detectable impact at all.
Researchers looked about how weak magnetic fields (WMFs) affected flavoproteins, which are crucial to health and control the nervous system and DNA repair.
If these proteins go wrong then there are serious knock-on effects for human health.
But after subjecting them to WMFs in the lab it became clear that they were completely unaffected.
