Tuesday, November 8, 2011

How safe are you from Cell Tower Radiation ?

Most of the cell tower radiation risk is because the cell phone towers are in residential colonies when they  should be  away from such places the antennae on the towers are too low when they ought to be at greater height, they are far too many when there should be fewer & they are in wrong  places  though guide lines specifically state where there should not be.
EMR safety standards in India are based largely on a 1996 document called 'Health Assessment Statement' by the  International Commission on Non- ionising Radiation Protection ( ICNIRP ), an international independent  non-profit registered  in Germany, ICNIRP  has science experts who "address the possible adverse  effects on human health exposure to non- ionising radiation". In their assessment , the ICNIRP said 600 milliwatt/meter square was a safe limit of radiation for the general public. The ICNIRP also issued separate guide lines on maintaining safe limits for cell phone towers, which India telecom wing adopted in 2008. In India, Cogent classifies emr levels upto 600mw/msq. as safe. Border line is from 601 to 1000mw/msq., unsafe is from 1001 to 4000 mw/msqm. & extreme anomaly  is above 4000 mw/msqm.
In the  long term, we need to find ways of providing cell phone convenience without exposing people to the existing dangers of cell tower radiation.
In recent past there are  lot of discussion on this issue are taking place in India to have more safe application  of Cell tower to restrict its installation out of residential , commercial , hospital & school zone.It is very essential to save human health from effects of huge radiations from cell towers either by making  land bank or specific Zones to be  made throughout the country like  USA, Canada, UK & other developed countries to save huge population of Human to make a pollution free/radiation free environment with ecological balance to save our Planet.
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