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User ID: 1022919 France 07/02/2010 10:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Full-body scanners could pose cancer risk at airports, U.S. scientists warn Security officials increasingly rely on full-body scanners to screen passengers, but could those machines pose a cancer risk to airline customers?
That's the word from several overseas media outlets this week, all of which report on a possible cancer risk from such machines.
The Daily Mail of London writes "experts say radiation from the scanners has been underestimated and could be particularly risky for children. They say that the low level beam does deliver a small dose of radiation to the body but because the beam concentrates on the skin -- one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body -- that dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated."... [ link to travel.usatoday.com] |