{"id":415414,"date":"2026-01-17T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415414\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:44:11","slug":"rfk-jr-orders-study-on-cellphone-radiation-as-fda-drops-assurance-that-phones-are-not-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415414\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Orders Study on Cellphone Radiation as FDA Drops Assurance That Phones Are Not Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Food and Drug Administration has removed webpages saying wireless phones are not dangerous as the Department of Health and Human Services conducts new safety studies.<\/p>\n

One of the removed pages \u2014 titled: Do Cell Phones Post a Health Hazard? \u2014 can still be found<\/a> on an internet site that archives websites. It states, \u201cBased on the evaluation of the currently available information, the FDA believes that the weight of scientific evidence has not linked exposure to radio frequency energy from cell phone use with any health problems at or below the radio frequency exposure limits set by the FCC.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has previously claimed that radiation emitted by wireless phones can cause neurological damage in children and even cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FDA removed webpages with old conclusions about cell phone radiation while HHS undertakes a study on electromagnetic radiation and health research to identify gaps in knowledge, including on new technologies, to ensure safety and efficacy,\u201d an agency spokesman, Andrew Nixon, said in an emailed statement to The New York Sun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe study was directed by President Trump\u2019s MAHA Commission in its strategy report,\u201d Mr. Nixon added.<\/p>\n

Critics of the old language are celebrating the change.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetter late than never,\u201d the president and general counsel of Environmental Health Trust, Joseph Sandri, tells the Sun. Mr. Sandri\u2019s organization has fought for years for health safety initiatives involving the wireless phone industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther countries have been studying this for decades with vigor,\u201d Mr. Sandri says.<\/p>\n

The FDA works with the Federal Communications Commission to regulate wireless phone safety. Mr. Sandri says the current FCC standards are \u201cpathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FCC has an outmoded standard compared to other countries,\u201d Mr. Sandri says. He notes that most advanced countries have much stricter standards and have just as strong and reliable phone networks as America.<\/p>\n

But the CTIA, which represents the American wireless communications industry, says the current standards are adequate.<\/p>\n

\u201cRadiofrequency energy from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices, mobile phones and wireless infrastructure, has not been shown to cause health problems, according to the consensus of the international scientific community and independent expert organizations around the world,\u201d the association says in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

Many medical associations agree. Studies have shown no link between wireless phone use and cancer, a cancer epidemiologist and professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Elizabeth Platz, told the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, which first reported on the changes to the FDA website. Ms. Platz added that wireless phones don\u2019t emit the type of radiation that causes cancer.<\/p>\n

Mr. Sandri, however, says the federal government cut all funding for studies in America decades ago. He says there needs to be a transparent and open discussion within the government and wireless industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want wide welcoming offramps for terrible and unsafe behaviors and we want wide welcoming onramps for competing on safety and encouraging the best of U.S. industry and the U.S. medical community and research community to compete on safety and make safer networks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Food and Drug Administration has removed webpages saying wireless phones are not dangerous as the Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,190,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-415414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}