The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has removed information about the health safety of mobile phone radiation from its website. This was reported by a ministry spokesperson, Andrew Nixon.

“The FDA has removed pages containing outdated data on radiation from mobile phones,” he told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Nixon explained that the removal is linked to the launch of a new study on electromagnetic radiation and its impact on health, initiated by the U.S. Department of Health. The study is intended to “identify knowledge gaps” related to new technologies and to improve public safety. At the same time, as the newspaper notes, he did not specify who exactly is conducting the research.

According to the newspaper, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims that mobile phone use can cause various diseases, including cancer. However, many scientists in the past—including experts from the World Health Organization and FDA staff—have found no evidence that radiation from phones and other gadgets leads to cancer or other diseases.

The newspaper recalled that in 2020 Kennedy Jr. succeeded in pushing for a review of electromagnetic radiation standards approved by the Federal Communications Commission. Three years later, he and his supporters opposed the rollout of 5G infrastructure. He has also claimed that phones can cause chronic illnesses in children and that they are “swimming in a toxic soup” due to radiation from Wi-Fi.

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