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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10391

2 June 2011
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) ep/mobile phones
Michèle Rivasi from Greens welcomes WHO conclusions

Brussels, 01/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - On 31 May, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organisation (WHO), stated that the electromagnetic field in category 2B, potentially contains carcinogenic elements. This decision now puts mobile phone waves in the same category as glass wool and petrol fumes. Michèle Rivasi (Greens/EFA, France) said that this “was better late than never”. She also underlined that this recognition must be immediately...

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