The national academy of medicine in France reacted to the call to the caution thrown lately by 20 scientists as for the use of the cellular telephone. According to the French institution that acts as councilwoman concerning public health by the government, this initiative does not rest on a scientific gait.
"The principle of precaution would not know how to turn into alarmist machine, especially when several billions of portable are used in the world, without obvious sanitary consequences since 15 years", sustains the academy in a release.
The potential risk to contract a cancer associated to the use of a cell phone is not demonstrated and the only studies that do not arrive to make such a conclusion that state of a weak risk after at least 10 years of use, underline the members of The Academy.
According to them, the partial results of the survey vast Intercom, driven in 13 countries and based on 6 600 cases of tumors, "are at present make reassuring and suggest the possibility of a risk only for uses of 10 years or more", they add.
The institution recommends "to value the risks evoked seriously, while privileging in every case a big unassailable survey on his / her / its methodology (what is the case nor of intercom nor the big number of study on the same topic that preceded it). "
She / it also suggests to the privilege of cohort studies that "permit an a lot more reliable evaluation of the exhibitions
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