Bead 'slashes mobile radiation'

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:14:18 -0800
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Bead 'slashes mobile radiation'

  Bead 'slashes mobile radiation'

Radiation from hands-free mobile phones can be reduced to virtually
zero by a simple tiny magnetic bead which costs a few pence, a
government adviser says.

  Professor Lawrie Challis said clipping a ferrite bead on kits stops
the radio waves travelling up the wire and into the head.

  He called on the mobile phone industry to start using them "as
standard".

  The beads, which often measure less than 1cm in diameter, are commonly
used to stop data interference in computers.

  Professor Challis, who is chairman of the Mobile Telecommunications
and Health Research Programme, told BBC News: "There is no evidence yet
that mobile phones are harmful to health but people have not been using
them long enough for us to be sure.

  "Using a ferrite bead effectively reduces emissions to the head to
zero but as yet manufacturers do not put them on hands-free kits."

  And Professor Challis, who was also on the Stewart committee which
looked into mobile phone safety in 2000, added: "I am not sure why, but
I wish they would. They could use it as a marketing technique, you
would think they would like to promote it."

  While studies have shown hands-free kits reduce radiation, emissions
still travel up the wires on the outside and are absorbed by the head.

  The beads work by absorbing these "unintentional" emissions.

  Wires

  Dr Stuart Porter, of the department of electronics at the University
of York, said he agreed with Professor Challis's comments.

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  Story from BBC NEWS:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/4203077.stm

  Published: 2005/01/25 08:27:20 GMT


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