Doubts have been cast over whether mobile phone use can be linked to brain tumours.
Doubts have been cast over whether mobile phone use can be linked to brain tumours.
It follows a ruling in an Italian court in which Telecoms worker Roberto Romeo was awarded 500 euros a month in compensation after a connection was found between incorrect mobile use and the onset of a benign growth.
Alessandro Polichetti, physicist and first researcher at the Italian National Institute of Health said:
“The totality of all the studies on this topic does not allow us to conclude that mobile phones are carcinogenic, or that there is a causal link between the use of mobile phone and the onset of brain tumour or tumour elsewhere.”
The England-based Brain Tumour Charity also says there is insufficient scientific evidence.
However, Romeo claimed his tumour was the result of using his business mobile for three to four hours a day over a period of 15 years.
“There were no warnings. Nobody told us not to keep it close, nobody told us to put conversations on speakerphone, to make short telephone calls; we did not have these warnings and we used the phones for all we needed,” he said.
An appeal could still be filed against the court ruling.