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Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation
Some members of the public continue to be concerned about possible health effects of radiofrequency(RF) electromagnetic energy (EME) emissions from mobile phone base stations. Although health authorities around the world, including the World Health Organization, remain of the view that any harmful effects are unproven and unlikely, the public anxiety, itself, is an important issue. As a result, ARPANSA continues to gather information on actual exposure levels and provides this to the public together with facts about the underlying science. ARPANSA has published the results of a survey of 60 base stations in the international journal, Bioelectromagnetics (see below for the full citation) and is developing plans and a protocol for an ongoing program of measurements of RF EME levels around base stations.
Citations
Survey of RF exposure levels from mobile telephone base stations in Australia
Bioelectromagnetics
Volume 27, Issue 1, Date: January 2006, Pages: 73-76
S.I. Henderson, M.J. Bangay