What many did want published

THE SUNDAY TIMES, APRIL 15, 2007, IRISH EDITION, PAGE 11

"T-MOBILE 'BURIED' CANCER REPORT

by Daniel Foggo

T-Mobile, the mobile phone giant, has been accused of 'burying' a scientific report it commissioned which concluded that handsets and masts contribute to cancer and genetic damage. The report argued that officially recommended limits on radiation exposure should be cut to 1/1,000th of those in force. The suggestion has not been taken up by the company or by regulators. Campaigners said T-Mobile's handling of the report was part of a wider pattern of behaviour by the industry in its efforts to keep health risks off the agenda. The Ecolog Institute, which has been researching mobile phone technology since 1992, was paid by T-Mobile to evaluate evidence on its potential dangers. But Dr Peter Neitzke, one of the authors of the report, has accused T-Mobile of diluting the findings by commissioning other studies from which it knew "no critical results or recommendations were to be expected." Ecolog's report states: "Electromagnetic fields with frequencies in the mobile telecommunications range do play a role in the development of cancer. This is particularly notable for tumours of the central nervous system."