The Canadian standard for human exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, Safety Code 6, was established by Health Canada in 1999.
In 2004, a Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel reviewed Safety Code 6. It concluded that "all of the authoritative reviews completed within the last two years have concluded that there is no clear evidence of adverse health effects associated with RF fields."
Electromagnetic radiation and cancer?
Studies have not yielded any convincing evidence that electromagnetic radiation is mutagenic or able to initiate cancer.
The Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden found that 10 or more years of mobile phone use increased the risk of acoustic neuroma and that the risk increase was confined to the side of the head where the phone was usually held. However, a parallel study about mobile phone use and the risk of brain tumors did not indicate any increased risk of brain tumors in relation to mobile phone use.
The World Health Organization has an International Agency for Research on Cancer. This organization coordinates and conducts research on cancer through epidemiological and laboratory research. In March 2010, they published the "Interphone Study Results".
The Interphone study is a mostly population-based case–control study that involved 13 countries. The study focused on people 30-59 years old who were high users of mobile phones and who resided mostly in large urban areas. It is the largest study of brain tumors and mobile phone use to date. The study did not find an increase in brain cancer related to cell phone use, but the study group feels that further studies are needed related to phone use and cancer.
