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Answer to Question #1716 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"Category: Cell Phones The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q
What effects of cell phones will there be on younger people opposed to older people? Will the age or state of development effect the dangers of a cell phone?
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Physical size of the subject affects the fraction of the total radiofrequency energy that is absorbed in the body. To account for this known effect, the maximum permissible exposure standards for radiofrequency energy were set for the worst-case condition, that is assuming the body size for maximal absorption at a given frequency. Thus the maximum permissible exposure standards are fully protective for bodies of different sizes.
For more detailed information, see the answers and the cited references to questions 79, 109, 694, and 893 under the Nonionizing Radiation section of the Health Physics Society Ask The Expert Web page.
Gary H. Zeman, ScD, CHP
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