Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 11 June 2019.
David Drew
Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what investigations the Government has commissioned on the health and safety implications of the 5G rollout.
Seema Kennedy
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and health evidence reviews have been prepared by scientific expert groups in the United Kingdom and around the world. The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR) published their report in the UK in 2012 and the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) published their report in 2015. The World Health Organization is presently preparing a review. The AGNIR report is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/radiofrequency-electromagnetic-fields-health-effects
The SCENIHR report is available at the following link:
https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/scientific_committees/docs/citizens_emf_en.pdf
Based on the accumulated evidence and reviews, Public Health England (PHE) advises that the guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) should be adopted and there is no convincing evidence that EMF exposures below the ICNIRP guideline levels cause adverse health effects.
PHE has committed to keeping the emerging evidence under review and to preparing another comprehensive review when sufficient new evidence has accumulated.
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