French Health Ministry warns against excessive mobile phone use, especially by children
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 at 3:35 AM PST In General
Just when we’ve posted about finger massager selling in Japan, we got a news French Health Ministry has issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use, especially by children. According to the ministry, it is recommended to use a mobile phone in moderation, “with good judgment, avoid calling when reception is poor, or during high-speed travel, and finally, keep the telephone away from sensitive areas of the body by using a hands-free kit.” Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin even added that while mobile phones given to children could be useful safety items, parents should be cautious about frequent use.
I’m not sure whether French parents and children dig this, but I’ll keep my phone with me all the time. Screw the moderation. 
[Via: Reuters]
(btw, it was on yesterday’s evening news on France2 channel, shortly after her original interview about law reinforcement against smoking in public places.)
Growing children are more sensible to radiation, that’s nothing new, so holding a handset against the head, near saliva glands _could_ bring up trouble.
After what, having a cellphone deeply buried in the bag, not too close of the kid in the classroom, or turning it off when traveling in our famous high-speed trains when the child is probably with his parents anyways makes it a near-zero risk.
Well said JaXX. I may’ve covered the grown-up perspective.
I agree with JaXX and better be shore to all knows better and take phones with low SAR-level , here in Sweden they had a big test and they be stunned that Sony-Ericsson had so high SAR-level 8 of top 10 was from Sony-Ericsson with SE T650 in top Sar-level 1.80.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/pryl/tele/article755443.ab?service=print
fakta http://www.mobilfakta.se/mobilstralning/sar.asp
Well said JaXX. I may’ve covered the grown-up perspective.