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Government to carry out Wi-Fi investigation

Results will be "reassuring"

15 October 2007 10:30 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has announced it will carry out "systematic" research into how wireless networks are being used.

The agency has said in advance it expects the results to be "reassuring", and said there was "no scientific evidence to date" that Wi-Fi networks could have an adverse effect on the health of the general population.

The research will look at the average exposure to the low level radiation emitted by Wi-Fi access points and wireless links on computers.

Despite fears raised about the use of Wi-Fi in schools, the signals used are well within guidelines issued by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation.

The Government has previously said there is no problem with Wi-Fi.

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