W.E.E.P. News
Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News
4 February 2011
International Scientists Recommend Global Governments Adopt New Exposure Guidelines for Electromagnetic Radiation
Please, find enclosed (attached) our recent paper [Fragopoulou A, Grigoriev Y, Johansson O, Margaritis LH, Morgan L, Richter E, Sage C, "Scientific panel on electromagnetic field health risks: Consensus points, recommendations, and rationales. Scientific Meeting: Seletun, Norway, November 17-21, 2009", Rev Environ Health 2010; 25: 307-317] from the workshop in Seletun, november 2009; the press release,
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/seletun-press-release/ ;
and the video from ElectromagneticHealth.org,
This is probably one of the most important papers we have ever published. I warmly thank everyone who supported it's creation!
With my very best regards
Yours
Olle
(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
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Suicide and EMFs
As of 2007, suicide ranked as the third leading cause of death among young people (ages 15 to 24), exceeded only by accidents and homicides
In the past 60 years, the suicide rate has quadrupled for 15-24 year-old males and doubled for females.
Another major problem is the EMF radiation bombarding children day in and day out. For example, cell phones are exposing their brains to dangerous levels of radiation, the damaging effects of which we are only beginning to see.
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CELL PHONE SAFETY BILL LC 1273 INTRODUCED BY OREGON SENATOR CHIP SHIELDS FEBRUARY 3rd THAT WILL REQUIRE WARNING LABELS ON CELL PHONES SOLD IN OREGON.
February 3nd, 2010 the Oregon Senate introduced legislation that will require precautionary information on cell phones and cell phone packaging. The legislation was inspired by similar legislation introduced in the state of Maine in April of 2010 (HP1207, LD 1706) under the name of "The Children's Wireless Protection Act." The bill will require that a warning label be placed on the phone as well as its packaging by the product retailer. The label will be supplied by the manufacturer. This is the first bill in the world to address the effects of a non thermal radiation-emitting device. The FCC and the FDA do not regulate "non-thermal" radiation-emitting devices.
State Senator Chip Shields introduced bill LC 1273 (and amend ORS 646.608) in Oregon. The bill is co-sponsored by the health committee chair Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, Sen. Alan Bates (co-chair human services subcommittee), Sen. Rod Monroe (co-chair education subcommittee), Rep. Jim Thompson (co-chair health committee), Rep. Ben Cannon (health care, co-vice chair). This is the first bill to address the health effects of non-thermal radiation.
The bill is in response to increasing public awareness of many independently funded scientific studies, mostly from Europe, that show a link between cell phone use and brain cancer and other health problems. Cell phones were introduced to market with no pre-market safety testing by the FDA or the FCC. Senator Shields feels that Oregon is obligated to do what it can to protect its citizens from the potential hazards of cell phone use.
Cell phones are considered of particular risk to children. France has banned advertising aimed at children and has taken other precautionary measures to warn against cell phone use by children under 12. Children are different from adults as they have a unique vulnerability. They have "windows of susceptibility" when their organs and systems may be particularly sensitive to the effect of radio frequency radiation . "The W.H.O. Considers the protection of the children's health from possible negative influence of the EMF of mobile phones as a highest priority task." (Russian National Committee on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection)
The need for such legislation is evident when reviewing these quotes from the FCC website and from current manuals (from Motorola) that are supplied with cell phones:--
FCC WEBSITE AS OF OCT, 2010
2) "The Commission has stressed repeatedly that it is not a health and safety agency and would defer to the judgment of these expert agencies with respect to determining appropriate levels of safe exposure to RF energy."
3) "Under the law, FDA does not review the safety of radiation-emitting consumer products such as mobile phones before marketing…"
4) "there is no federally developed national standard for safe levels of exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy"
5) "The Commission has stressed repeatedly that it is not a health and safety agency and would defer to the judgment of these expert agencies with respect to determining appropriate levels of safe exposure to RF energy."
MOTOROLA MANUAL AS OF OCT. 2010
6) Use hands-free if available and keep the Blackberry at least .98 in. from your body, "INCLUDING THE ABDOMEN OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND THE LOWER ABDOMEN OF TEENAGERS"
7) A few animal studies, however, have suggested that low levels of RF could accelerate the development of cancer in laboratory animals. In one study, mice genetically altered to be predisposed to developing one type of cancer developed more than twice as many such cancers when they were exposed to RF energy compared to controls."
8) "When 20 types of tumors were considered separately however, an association was found between mobile phone use and one rare type of glioma, neuroepithelliomatous tumors"
9) "None of these tests showed any effect of the RF except for the micronucleus assay, which detects structural effects on the genetic material. The cells in this assay showed changes after exposure to simulated cell phone radiation"
10) "When tumors did exist in certain locations, however, they were more likely to be on the side of the head where the mobile phone was used."
11) "Some people who have used mobile phones have been diagnosed with brain cancer."
Contact:
David Morrison 503 236 8600
Elizabeth Barris 310 828 6808
contact@americanassociationforcellphonesafety.org
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INDEPENDENT STUDY FINDS 'SMART' METERS CAN VIOLATE FEDERAL SAFETY LIMITS
- Scientific Analysis of New Wireless Meters May Explain Reported Health Symptoms.
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