Rarely do questions regarding public health become the subject of doubt and debate. Nearly fifteen years after the classification, in 2011, of radio frequencies as a “possible carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the National Agency for Food Safety, Environmental and Occupational Health (ANSES) has updated its research on the issue. In a collective expert report published on Wednesday, November 26, the French agency considers that the data collected since then does not allow to identify a link between the development of cancer pathology and radio frequency exposure. And this, including in the strongest exposure conditions, namely in the context of classic cell phone use, where the emission source is very close to the body (in this case the brain).
“The search for the health impacts of radio frequencies remains a big question for public health because all or almost all of the population is exposed to radio frequencies.explains Olivier Merckel, head of the Physical Agents and New Technologies unit at ANSES. In particular through the use of cellular telephones which are used by 98% of the population over 12 years old, but also through transmission infrastructure which continues to increase. » The fifteen experts convened by the agency went on to model their approach after IARC’s approach. They evaluated existing research on three types of evidence for carcinogenic effects: biological mechanisms, studies in laboratory animals, and epidemiological studies in humans.
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