Wireless cancer risk and Bluetooth: doctors warn the United Nations

Are you exposed to an electromagnetic field right now?

Do you know how much you expose yourself to them during a normal day?

Well, even if this petition signed by 250 doctors from around the world was addressed to the United Nations, consider it a personal warning if you have a close relationship with your cell phone, baby monitor, or microwave oven.

"On the basis of published and peer-reviewed research, we are seriously concerned about the pervasive and growing exposure to [non-ionizing electromagnetic fields] generated by wireless and electrical devices, "says the petition. "Many recent scientific publications have shown that EMFs affect living organisms at levels well below most international and national guidelines."

Their main argument is set out in the second part of this quote, namely that national and international standards for safe levels of exposure to CEM should be lowered.

Physicians list several specific elements that generate EMFs, including "RF-emitting devices (RFRs), such as cellular and wireless phones and their base stations, Wi-Fi, broadcast antennas, and meters." smart, baby monitors as well as electrical devices and infrastructure used in the supply of electricity that generate a very low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF EMF). "

The list is as remarkable for what is above as for what is not, however. As a result of the petition, media around the world have begun to classify another product as one of the potential cancer risks: Apple's wireless headphones, called AirPods, and other similar wireless headsets.

Neither the Apple AirPods nor any other wireless headphones were mentioned in the petition, and one researcher said disturbing people with scary headlines was useless.

"If you also use a cell phone every day, it's strange to worry about the dangers of these headphones," Ken Foster, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, told Foster. "I can not say that these devices are no problem, because people can still claim that there is no evidence that they are 100% safe.

"And I can not tell people what to worry about," he continued, "but personally, I have no worries."

Jerry Phillips, professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, has established a reverse link in a recent Medium article, when he said, "My concern for AirPods is that their placement in the Ear canal exposes the tissues of the head to relatively high levels of radio-frequency radiation. "

Wireless headsets connect your phone content or streaming content to your ears using Bluetooth, a radio frequency, in the same frequency range as microwaves, WiFi, cell phones and other electronic devices, according to the University of California. These devices emit radiation, but it is not the kind of direct radiation, damaging to DNA, associated with nuclear fallout.

This is the reason why these fields are called "very low frequencies" or sometimes "very low frequencies".

In 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified radio frequencies, such as bluetooth, among "possible carcinogens for humans".

"Apple products are always designed and tested to meet or exceed all security requirements," said Apple spokesman Alex Kirschner at the University of California in 2016, at the premiere. announces AirPods.

Will your new AirPods increase your risk of cancer? While researchers collect data on the pace of innovation in the telecommunications industry, "it's possible" is about as certain as anyone else can be.