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2012
Health Canada's assertions questioned in cell tower story
Kerry Crofton
Re: Residents worried about effect of cellphone antennas" Victoria News June 22
"Health Canada's assurance that, "the consensus of the scientific community is that RF energy from cellphone towers is too low to cause adverse health effects in humans" does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
"These kinds of statements will come back to haunt them.
"First, there is no scientific consensus. Second, there is a growing body of evidence that the radiation from cell tower antennas is harmful - within 500 metres the increase of adverse effects is significant (Balmori, 2010).
"Also in 2010 neurosurgeon Vini Khurana reported in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health that eight out of 10 published epidemiological studies showed increased adverse neurobehavioural symptoms or cancer in populations living within 500 metres of cell tower antennas . . .
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