A research committee funded by Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection studied radiation emitted from various hybrid vehicles over the past nine months and determined that the current generation Prius is safe, but the Honda Insight, Civic Hybrid, and previous generations of Prius’s all emit “surplus” radiation. Any extended exposure to electromagnetic fields higher than 2 mG can possibly cause cancer, according to The International Agency for Research on Cancer, while the Israeli Ministry of Health believes 4 mG is the maximum amount of allowable radiation.
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