US experts urge research into cellphone effects on children

We were pretty much on the money when we speculated that France’s move to warn its citizens about limiting cellphone use among youngsters would prompt other countries to do the same.

Experts in the US are urging Yankee researchers to look into the possible effects of cellphone use on children and their development. Youngsters are more prone to any type of radiation because they’re still developing and growing. And it seems that some vague links between mobile phone use and brain tumors has prompted the The U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ask the National Research Council to recommend some future lines of study.

The National Research Council advises Congress and other federal government agencies on what areas of science warrants more research. The convened a meeting of experts and has released a new report that indicates that more research needs to be done to determine the link between mobile phones and children.

The Council stated that “measuring the amount of RF energy received by juveniles, children, pregnant women, and fetuses from wireless devices and RF base station antennas could help define exposure ranges for various populations,” adding that, “although it is unknown whether children are more susceptible to RF exposure, they may be at increased risk because of their developing organ and tissue systems.”

Hopefully this new report will prompt some serious study into the effects of cellphone radiation on children.

[Via: Reuters]