Recommendations from the BfS for making telephone calls on mobile phones

German Federal Office of Radiation Protection (BfS) released recommendations for making telephone calls on mobile phones.

BfS said that “according to current knowledge, the internationally recommended limit values are sufficient to protect the user from proven health risks.” On the other hands, “there are uncertainties in the risk assessment that the German mobile communications research programme has not been able to remove completely.”

Particularly:

-       possible health risks of the long-term exposure of adults to high frequency electromagnetic fields when making mobile telephone calls (intensive mobile use over more than 10 years)

-       the question of whether the use of mobile phones by children could have an effect on health.

For these reasons, the BfS continues to consider that precautionary measures are necessary: exposure to electromagnetic fields should be as low as possible.

These recommendations are available on the following URL:

http://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/emf/mobile-communication/protection/precaution/mobile-phones.html (En)

http://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/emf/mobilfunk/schutz/vorsorge/empfehlungen-handy.html (De)