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Sky
News, January 12, 2005
(By: unknown)
NEW PHONE SAFETY WARNING
Parents should limit the time children spend on mobile phones, according to the chairman of an official safety study.
Recent reports from Europe have raised concern over possible links between mobile use and tumours in the ear, and any health risk - if it exists - is certain to be greater for children than for adults, he said.
In 2000, an NRPB report recommended a "precautionary" approach to mobiles, urging adults to keep conversations short - and to discourage children from using handsets.
Prof Stewart recommends that no child under eight years old should be given a mobile.
He said "We are still recommending a precautionary approach.
"There is still no hard evidence that the health of the public is affected (by mobile phones). But we have to take account of more recent reports that there might be a risk.
"We can't put our hands on our hearts and say 'mobile phones are safe'."
"If there are risks then the people who are going to be most affected are children, and the younger the child, the greater the danger."
