Dec 22 2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on October 26, 2009 that
its 10 year study has shown a proven link between long term cell phone
usage and increased risks in brain cancer and tumors. The ten year study
headed by Dr. Elisabeth Cardis shows a 18% increase in brain tumor
development with long term cell phone usage.
“Are our cell phones a serious
health hazard?”
In the United States, which did not participate in the Interphone study,
there are 270 million cell phones in use. Senator Tom Harkin, now head
of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has
promised to probe more deeply into the question of a link between cell
phones and brain cancer.
Safe
Cell Phone, LLC will be the sole marketer and distributor of the SAR
Shield, which attaches to any cell phone and can reduce potentially
harmful radiation waves by upwards of 89%.
The SAR
Shield retails for $15, and the company will also donate a
percentage of profits from the sales to brain cancer awareness and
further studies on cell phone radiation.
The SAR Shield is a culmination of work from a Canadian scientist and
the world renowned PAM Technologies. They have combined technology from
the material used to shield Stealth Bombers from radar detection and
telecommunications fields to create a pliable, flexible sticker no
larger than the size of a nickel that absorbs the electromagnetic waves
(radiation) emitted while your phone is in use.
The SAR Shield then deflects the waves away from the user’s ear and
skull, reducing the specific
absorption rate (SAR) upwards of 89%. It’s the only tested,
FCC-approved device proven to lessen SAR by that much, and it’s now
being made available in all 50 states. Plans are already in the works
for Central and South America.
"This is the first generation that has put relatively high-powered
transmitters against the head, day after day," says Dr. Ross Adey, who
has been studying microwave radiation for decades, and is one of the
most respected scientists in the field.
Tests conducted by the ABC show 20/20 have found that some of the
country's most popular cell phones can exceed the radiation limit. 20/20
reported that government-testing guidelines are so vague that a phone
can pass the Federal Communications Commission's requirements when
tested in one position and exceed those maximum levels when held in
another position.
Experts say it's particularly hard to predict the long-term impact of
cell phone radiation, especially since most of the 300 million Americans
who now have cell phones began using them in the past five to ten years.