Does your heart sink when you are hoping to enjoy a relaxing train journey and someone proceeds to make a long list of calls on their mobile?  Do you realise that, as well as being irritating, this is also risking your health?  Every time someone makes a mobile call in a train, they are effectively sending out harmful rays. 

Research carried out at Japan’s Tohuka University by a team of scientists, has shown that using a mobile in the confined space of a train carriage puts the health of other passengers at risk, particularly regular commuters who are at a serious disadvantage, since they spend a lot of time in this unhealthy environment and usually don’t have the option of changing seats.  A big difficulty for most of us is accepting that something that is invisible, tasteless and odourless can present a health hazard. 

How does it happen? 

Research results have shown that as train windows are usually closed, the microwaves become trapped in the carriage.  They have nowhere to go and so bounce on to the metal sides of the carriage and then back on to the unsuspecting passengers.

The Japanese scientists determined that the microwaves build up in the carriages and suggested that their cumulative effect is a new environmental issue which needs to be recognised.  The levels measured were above the International Committee of Non-Ionising Radiation’s safety Limit, even when only a few passengers were on board.  There is even a knock-on effect for subsequent passengers since the microwaves are still present in the train long after their perpetrators have left.

Does it all sound a bit far-fetched?  This is not just an over-reaction, but a genuine concern expressed in the Journal of the Physician Society of Japan, also reported in the New Scientist.             

 

wilma.davidson@virgin.net  and www.wilmadavidson.co.uk

 

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