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Hands-free kits
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Hands-free kits are also discussed, revealing the hidden risks. “Currently, the cellular industry are encouraging the use of hands-free kits, but cite their only advantage as being to offer greater freedom of use to the user, nothing else. The fact is they know the real reason users are buying them is because they think these kits protect them from radiation exposure. Recent tests have shown that whilst exposure to the head is reduced by around 70 percent, all that is happening is the radiation is being transferred to another part of the body which is potentially more vulnerable because it does not have the thickness of the skull to protect itself eg the waist or chest areas.”74 “Commenting on the news in the British consumer magazine Which?, “theoretical physicist Dr. Zvi Weinberg said it’s probable that earpieces serve as antennae that direct more electromagnetic radiation into the ears. However, he said, phone models may differ in the degree to which their internal wires conduct electricity, and said he planned to calculate the various mechanisms involved during the next two weeks.”75 “It turns out that ‘hands-free’ cell phones may not save you from the Grim Reaper after all. Alarming claims surfaced last week in a research publication in the U.K. that not only are many hands-free devices useless in protecting wireless phone users from radiation that might cause tumors, these products may actually raise the amount of radiation being directed into the head by three times.” The report, by Antonia Chitty, appeared in Which? magazine, a 700,000-subscriber consumer report which does not accept advertising. The test results of the study, according to Which?, showed that the earplugs in the hands-free kit acted as aerials and channeled more radiation into the ear model than standard cell phones did. The earphones channel three times the dose of radiation into the ear that a regular cellular phone does.76 http://www.emfnews.org/qlinks.html
The UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) this month (August 2000) published a report which “confirms that hands-free kits reduce exposure for mobile phone users.”90 In response to the DTI report Helen Parker, editor of Which? magazine, stated: “We think there are problems with current SAR testing for hands free kits and we are carrying out more research into this area. We stand by our original test results into hands-free sets published earlier this year. Consumers need to be aware that hands-free kits are no guarantee of lowering radiation emissions from mobile phones, and, in some cases, they actually increase it.”91 Controvery reigns.
Using a mobile phone clipped to your waist results in a hotspot of radiation being pumped into the liver and kidneys. “There is concern that they may intensify radiation exposure to the ear canal. Using a hands-free kit and making a call with a mobile phone clipped to your belt also means the phone will generally be working at a higher power level. That’s because it is generally harder to transmit from waist-height than head height. But there’s a lot of body tissue in that area which has good conductivity and absorbs radiation more quickly than the head.” People think hands-free kits are safer, so tend to spend more time on the phone. The phone works harder to pick up a signal if it is down by the waist, where more radiation is absorbed than by the head.”77
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