Medical director Tore Tynes at the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) said there was no contradiction between warnings and a verdict that phones are currently safe, since possible biological effects cannot be ruled out.
The NRPA recommends that people have shorter conversations, use hands-free sets, hold the phone away from their ear, keep the phone away from the body and use text messaging to reduce radiation, all the more so if the cell user is a child.
"Given what we know today we can assume that the use of mobile phones does not involve a health risk. Meanwhile, it is important to emphasize that this is a relatively new problem and the last word has yet to be said. But as of today we find no reason to warn against using mobile phones," Tynes said.
Tynes said that recent reports indicating a connection between mobile use and, for example, cancer did not change an assessment based on examination of a wider range of existing literature and expert opinion.
A major study examining possible links between mobile phone use and cancer is currently being carried out by the World Health Organization, and the result of this project will be ready some time next year.
