Britain’s Consumers’ Association is to run further tests on the microwave
output of hands-free sets for cellphones, following its controversial tests on
two phones in April. The CA found that hands-free units did not reduce radiation
reaching the ear and brain
(New Scientist, 8 April, p 5).
But separate tests by New Scientist and the cellphone networks Vodafone and
One-2-One have found the opposite. The CA’s new tests will look at six makes of
phone and 12 makes of hands-free set, says CA researcher Antonia Chitty. “Since
there’s so much interest in this, we felt that the original two we looked at was…
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