The European Environment Agency advises limiting the use of laptops in the car. Our brain would be sensitive to changes of relay antennas.
Do not phone in the car. This is the first piece of advice given by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in a report on the subject published this week. The cause, during each passage from one relay antenna to another, our brain would pick up particularly harmful waves. If other research has established a link between mobile phone and brain cancer, this is the first time that a report from an international agency points to the perverse effect of the change of relay. In order to reduce the risks associated with exposure to waves that are harmful to the human body, very specific recommendations for use are issued by the EEA.
Resulting from a 750-page book on the theme of the precautionary principle, this study is cause for concern among regular users of laptops in the car. Even if the debate remains open, the precautionary principle must prevail, believes the European Agency. This is why it asks owners of cell phones to use them with the utmost caution. For example, she advises changing ears every 2 minutes to be less receptive to waves that promote tumor development. Wearing headphones is also strongly recommended. Concerns which, however, are not shared by everyone.
The European Commission would like to calm things down. “We have cases, yes, sometimes settled by the courts”, answers Frédéric Vincent, spokesperson for the Commission. “But before we make any decisions, we must first take a more general view.” he concludes.
These recommendations from the European Environment Agency come a few months after the verdict of the Italian Court of Cassation, which ruled that the neuroma of the Gasser’s ganglion, a benign tumor of the trigeminal nerve, from which Innocente Marcolini, ex- Italian financial manager taped all day to his laptop, had been provoked by the intensive use of the latter.
In addition, in June 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), created by the World Health Organization (WHO), classified electromagnetic waves used in mobile telephony as “possible carcinogens for the man”. A year earlier, another study by the same organization already estimated that mobile phone use could potentially increase the risk of developing a tumor.
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