A Finland based scientist today said he has observed that human cells change their structure when exposed to radiation from mobile phones, but could not conclude whether it is harmful or not because funding for the study stopped.
The scientist Dariusz Leszczynski said that he was working on a research for which funding was promised by a Finnish organisation Tekes, where about 70 percent fund for research is public money and rest comes from industry.
"When we found that cell phone effects human body the funding stopped because cell phone manufacturers Nokia and Teliasonnera said they don't like it. The scientific advisory board has industry partners as members. If industry partners doesn't likes a research, it is often not funded by Tekes," he told.
"There is effect of cell phone radiation emitted at present levels of safety standards. Protein structure in human skin changes. We could not conclude whether it is harmful or not because our funding stopped," Leszczynski said.
Nokia refuted allegations levelled by the scientist.
"We refute the claims made by Dr Leszczynski, as we have done when he has raised them before with media in Finland. Nokia believes that an independent research effort is the best way to provide the information which consumers want about the safety of their products," Nokia spokesperson Maija Taimi said.
Taimi said that Microsoft has acquired mobile device business of Nokia and therefore handsets related queries should be send to them.
source:siliconindia
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