The Health Security Agency (ANSES) confirms in a new opinion that 5G technology does not, in its opinion, present a health risk.
- According to some associations, the deployment of the 5G telephony network could present a health risk
- The Health Security Agency has just published a new opinion in which it describes this risk as “unlikely”
Does the deployment of 5G mobile phone technology lead to health risks? The subject is debated and divided to the point that in September 2020 it provoked a scathing reply from Emmanuel Macron to opponents of 5G whom he had called “Amish” and accused of wanting “to return to the model of the lamp. oil”. ANSES, the national health security agency, which had already published an opinion in this direction in 2021has just confirmed that 5G is “unlikely to cause new health risks.
Probable absence of risk
In its 2021 position paper, the Agency opened a consultation intended to provide any additional information to the elements on which it relied to reject the health risk of this technology. It is from the analysis of the responses to this consultation but also from the first exposure measurements in the vicinity of the relay antennas that it reaffirms today the probable absence of risk.
“The overall levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields are comparable to those of existing technologies”, specifies the new opinion of ANSES.
A “rational use” recommended
Obviously, these conclusions are disputed by those who continue to denounce the dangers of 5G for which several tens of thousands of antennas have already been deployed throughout France. Various associations denounce “the lack of data and the difficulty in assessing the risks” recognized by ANSES and speak of a “political instrumentalization” of the Agency.
Although its opinion rules out the presence of a health risk linked to the deployment of 5G, ANSES nevertheless recommends adopting “reasoned use”, especially for children.
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