Concern over the potential long-term adverse health effects associated with new 5G mobile phone technology will be the focus of a public lecture today (Thursday August 17) at Griffith University.
“The health effect issue of 5G is potentially very controversial as the communications industry is massive and 5G technology will be quite pervasive but its long-term health effects on humans are largely unknown,” says Professor Dariusz Leszczynski, the keynote speaker at the public lecture co-hosted by Griffith’s Centre for Environment and Population Health and the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists.
Professor Leszczynski was one of the thirty experts on the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)/WHO 2011 evaluation group that classified all radio frequency (RF-EMF) emissions as a possible carcinogen.
Current safety limits could be insufficient
Professor Leszczynski suggests that the current safety limits imposed on wireless communication devices (WCD) are insufficient to protect all users of such devices. “Besides carcinogenicity, there are
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