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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

PG&E Caught on Tape Threatening Disconnection / Sermon with type 2b Carcinogen ? / etc

W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

15 June 2011

PG&E Caught on Tape Threatening Disconnection of Service for "Smart"Meter Refusal

June 14, 2011

http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/06/14/pge-caught-on-tape-threatening-disconnection-of-service-for-smartmeter-refusal/#comment-5708

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Sermon with type 2b Carcinogen?

The minister at Roxboro United Church confirmed Monday that the congregation is in negotiations with Telus Mobility, a major Canadian wireless phone company.

http://westislandgazette.com/news/23475

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Teen Texting while driving $100,000 damage

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/06/14/teen-texting-while-driving-barrie_n_876566.html?icid=maing-grid7|canada-toshiba|dl1|sec1_lnk2|70647

Robert

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Electromagnetic radiation should you be worried?

http://goarticles.com/article/Electromagnetic-radiation-should-you-be-worried/4792770/

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Are you afraid of your cell phone now?

New research indicates that most science writers are stupid. (3rd item down)

http://www.salon.com/news/science/?story=/news/feature/2011/06/14/cells_laser_beams

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Risk in the call

Frontline

This is the first time that the IARC has evaluated electromagnetic radiation from mobile phone use for carcinogenicity. Until now, WHO had relied on the evaluations done by the ICNIRP. The ICNIRP has held that there is no link between mobile phone

http://www.frontline.in/stories/20110701281302900.htm

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Crimes Against Children?

Board of Ed to Approve Cell Towers at 6 Schools

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2011/06/board-of-ed-to-approve-cell-towers-at-6.html

David

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http://finchannel.com/news_flash/Corporate_Social_Responsibility/88758_Commission_proposes_to_revamp_rules_to_protect_EU_workers_from_harmful_electromagnetic_fields/

Commission proposes to revamp rules to protect EU workers from harmful electromagnetic fields

The FINANCIAL -- Brussels, 14 June 2011 – A proposal to update and improve EU rules to protect workers from electromagnetic fields in their daily tasks has just been put forward by the European Commission.

The rules are to protect workers like doctors and nurses giving patients magnetic resonance imaging scans (MRI), people working with radar, welders and workers reparing power lines.

The proposal takes account of the 2004 Directive on minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from electromagnetic fields. It would update the current exposure limits to take on board new scientific evidence - particularly in relation to exposure limits of MRI in hospitals. It would also include a number of provisions to help employers in their efforts to carry out the risk assessments required by EU law.

The aim of the proposal is to balance the protection of workers' health and safety with appropriate flexibility and proportionality so as not to unduly hamper the use and development of industrial and medical activities.

Welcoming the adoption of the proposal by the Commission, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor said "After a transparent and open consultation process with the scientific and medical communities, with industry and workers, we have put a proposal on the table that is up-to-date and with practical rules to better protect workers exposed to electromagnetic fields. The new rules are a major step in reducing the burden for SMEs in comparison with the 2004 Directive.."

The proposal clarifies the definitions on adverse effects on health, introduces an updated exposure limits system (frequencies that are recognised as having harmful effects on the human cardiovascular system or the central nervous system), as well as a number of provisions intended to facilitate the work of the employers when carrying out the risk assessments required by law.

As employers are obliged to carry out risk evaluations, the proposal would introduce detailed provisions to ensure a proportionate approach as well as to ensure adequate preventive measures to reduce the exposure of workers to electromagnetic fields. The proposal would require employers to give exposed workers and their representatives the necessary information and training, particularly relating to the outcome of the risk assessment, the measures taken by the employer, safe working practices, the detection of adverse effects and the circumstances in which workers are entitled to health checks.

In the case of a worker maintaining high tension lines, for example, the proposal would require the employer to evaluate the risks of exposure to electromagnetic fields and take measures to reduce them. This could vary from increasing the distance, to reducing the intensity, limiting exposure time etc. For the medical magnetic resonance imaging sector, or MRI scans, the proposal would require appropriate good practices to be developed and disseminated to limit the exposure of workers who carry out of magnetic resonance imaging scans. For the armed forces, harmonised North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) norms for those working with radar would have to be applied in the Member States concerned.

The proposal would foresee specific provisions for workers who wear an Active Implantable Medical Device (AIMD) – like a pacemaker - and pregnant women, who are considered to be especially at risk and need special protection. for such cases.

The proposal only covers workers during their professional activities. All other categories of people, such as consumers, phone users and passengers, are covered by the existing Council Recommendation 1999/519/EEC for the general public and specific legislation in each Member State.

The proposal will be sent to the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers for adoption. The new directive's deadline for implementation will be set by the Parliament and the Council.

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A Higher Cancer Classification?

Dr. Annie Sasco, a cancer researcher at the University of Bordeaux, France, and a distinguished 20-year IARC veteran, feels an even higher classification is warranted: Class 2A,

http://www.lakestevensjournal.com/county-state/article.exm/2011-06-14_scientists_confirm_that_cell_phone_use_increases_risk_for_brain_tumors

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Additional Radiation

It said its system has a range around three times that of 3G, is better at indoor penetration and would cost only $50m (£31m) to deploy across 99 percent of the UK population.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/networking/2011/06/14/uk-start-up-uses-tvs-white-spaces-for-broadband-40093089/

Geoff

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

3NEWS TV Nz WHO: cell phone use as a "possible cancer risk" / etc

W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

14 June 2011

3NEWS TV Nz WHO: cell phone use as a "possible cancer risk"

http://videos.next-up.org/3News/WHO_cell_phone_radiation_alarm/10_06_2011.html

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Sierra Club now mouthpiece for industry?

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Science+doesn+back+campaign+fear+wind+power+Sierra+Club+argues/4920202/story.html

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Are they now Grilling Me?

http://www.faz.net/artikel/C31034/elektrosensibilitaet-sind-das-jetzt-die-webers-die-mich-grillen-30338320.html

Google translation about a German EHS victim

Frank Berner is electrosensitive. The radiation from mobile phones and cordless phones makes him sick according his doctor. And another eleven percent of Germans as well. Can it be?

By Katrin Hummel, Stuttgart

Frank Berner: "I can not come with the meter, that's embarrassing"

26. May 2011 2011-05-26 15:30:03

There are moments when Frank Berner is do not like themselves. "I will not be so, I think that's terrible," he says. "But what's the alternative?" In the moments when he thinks of the forty-five suspects his neighbors, he deliberately inflict harm by switching their wireless channel or turn off if you leave the house. "I see it: Okay, here come the miller's * home, now I would like toasted again. Or I wonder: Do the Meier's actually turned off their transmitters when they are just now gone away? Or are now the Weber grilling me? Where light is on? Where a car in the yard? Terrible. "He shakes his head about how far it has come with him.

None of this was predictable. If someone had it eleven years ago said that he give up his well-paid job as a culinary manager at a major Frankfurt event caterers and move in with his parents in Stuttgart again, would he just laughed. Since November, but he actually lives in the guest room of his parents, his own furniture is stored, his dream home - high ceilings, oak floors, white plaster walls and views - he's quit. Professionally, it is running, Berner is now together with his brother, owner of a company for glass partitions. "But I can actually more than I currently see professionally. I am not who I am normally. "

He has a cold sweat on the legs, violent palpitation

Berner is electrostatic sensitive. This has diagnosed a doctor. She believes that his body is sick of electromagnetic radiation.

Berner has panic attacks, sweating reason he swindled him, he sleeps all night long, despite total exhaustion not, sometimes he formulation gaps. He has a cold sweat on the legs, violent heart palpitations, headaches and constant thirst, he is nervous, tingling arms and legs often, and unconsciously his eyes he pinched together into small slits, as he must protect from bright light. When he did not know what ailed him, he resorted to his doctor's advice with two to three Valiumtabletten a day, with the enlargement of the paranasal sinuses, removal of gallstones, hypnosis and psychotherapy.

Then he quit his job. Nothing helped. Only when he moved into an apartment without electromagnetic pollution, as he stayed away from wireless radiation from cell phones, cordless phones and mobile phone masts, it was better to him suddenly. Until he got new neighbors, who installed a wireless transmitter in her apartment.

He is not alone with his electric sensitivity. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) estimates that six to nine percent of Germans have the same problem. It takes the complaints of these people seriously, but there is not one believes that there really are the rays that make sick. Rather, studies of the BfS has shown that "so far no causal link between the presence of electromagnetic fields and health effects could be determined. make the view of Alexander Lerch, a member of the Radiation Protection Commission and Adviser to the Federal Environment Ministry in terms of mobile, it needs to succeed, the parties concerned "alternative concepts" as the cause of their complaints plausible "without them while the assumed environment, reference is confirmed easily done," and that preferably through a "multidisciplinary diagnosis and risk communication."

In other countries it is different. In Sweden Electrosensitive are considered "physically impaired", they have to pay a right to an electro smog-free workplace for the cost of upgrading the employer. Some hospitals provide radiation-free hospital rooms available in Stockholm and paid the Government the persons concerned to shield their homes by, for example, pays for special paint or special power cable. A small town in France has 2009 as the first community in the world their schools WLAN-free, several British private schools also do without it. Lerch, however, is safe: Protective measures such as "the bedroom of electrical equipment must be kept free to use limited mobile phone or even protect his house from a building biologists to radiation can be - unnecessary."

A scientific proof of the harmfulness of electromagnetic radiation has not been provided. The only thing is proved beyond doubt is a warming of the human body by the radiation. Critics, however, that research results be interpreted by scientists on one side and played down risks were formulated. To illustrate their skepticism is justified, they rely on the World Health Organisation (WHO). The German has not the radiation protector Lerchl included in a new Commission on Risk Assessment of the carcinogenic potential of electromagnetic fields, although Lerchl had even protested against its non-inclusion. The rationale of the WHO: You put there value to a "complete independence from commercial interests" and to members who were not "advocate a pre-position".

The WHO considers Lerchl for bias.

ICE can not take it anymore

Dealing with the results of recent international investigators drying on cell phone, the Interphone study, keep mobile critic also wrong.

But were questioned in the past ten years, more than 5,000 people with brain cancer.

Results: Frequent mobile phone calls will not be detected in cancer. What in the opinion of critics, but not enough attention was: Basically, do not rule out an increase in the risk of brain tumors by intensive mobile phone use, according to the study. And long-term effects of frequent phone calls or the risks for children and young people it says nothing. Many large insurance companies refuse to mobile operators and terminal manufacturers by reason of unpredictable health risks, liability for damages caused by electromagnetic radiation.

Frank Berner followed these discussions only in passing. They encourage him and help him in mastering his everyday life.

Fully he is busy going to the high-frequency electromagnetic from the road. In his company there are wired phones. His cell phone he no longer used. ICE can also take it no more, since the trains are equipped with WLAN. Hotel nights are for him just as taboo as a vacation in unfamiliar territory. And a radiation-free apartment, he shall also not so easy. How could they? "I feel the radiation is most often immediately or after a short time. But what if everything is quiet during the visit, because the neighbors are at work, and then starts the evening of terror? Or when new neighbors move in one day as my last apartment? "In March, he therefore has a flat display in the natural foods magazine abandoned meal and grain". So far without success. There have indeed reported to him about twenty people who describe themselves as well as electro-sensitive. But no one had a suitable residence for him. This is because the coverage in Germany at about 99 per cent and the current expansion of the transmission extremely strong "Long Term Evolution network (LTE) is expected soon to reach 100 percent. So there are fewer and fewer places for a while more and more sensitive electronic concerned.

High blood pressure, diarrhea, muscle tremors, and insomnia
For example, the former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, the newspaper Dagbladet, Oslo ", she told a headache when she was exposed to radio frequency radiation. Or those practicing gynecologist from Bavaria, after six months full of high blood pressure, diarrhea, muscle tremors, and insomnia was back in perfect health after the cordless DECT phone that she and her husband had installed a year ago in a room adjoining the bedroom, only to the basement and had then banned altogether.

Even the federal government recommends to minimize electromagnetic suspension and "traditional cable connections to be preferred if it can be dispensed with the use of radio-based solutions." They, too, has, in a briefing of parliament on health effects of mobile phones from December 2008 point out that there was "relative to the exposure of fetuses and children" open questions, as well as with respect to "potential effects on cognition, mood and sleep." At another point she goes to the "long-term effects on humans", which were also not clarified.

About possible long-term effects while protecting the existing limits anyway. The scientists at the ICNIRP, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, which they have developed close, but also insufficient to establish that there could be such long-term effects. Since these were not yet detected and the residual risk that there could still be some who had very small, the calculated values of them only to protect against "short-term, immediate effects" of radiation.

Anders sees this, the EU Parliament. Particularly in view of possible long-term consequences, it is recommended lowering the legal limits, and the European Environment Agency is also encouraging. Its director Jacqueline McGlade remembers "the harmful effects of substances such as asbestos, nicotine or PCBs, which are only decades after their introduction emerged," and recommends "risk prevention in policy until further clarification by the research." adopted also provides that the Environment Committee of the European Parliament, the beginning of May, a resolution has that certain of a potentially damaging effects of high frequency waves emanating below the applicable limits. "Can wait until a high level of scientific and clinical evidence leading to very high health and economic costs," reads the notice.

A thriving market has to be protected from encroachment
The federal government does, however, is difficult with the reduction of the limits, although the new red-green government in Baden-Württemberg will now operate at the federal level for it. According to Bernd Pfaffenbach, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, is "to protect a thriving market of interventions" that are "scientifically unfounded".

Mobile Critics see it as particularly problematic that the technical radiation now fill out almost the entire spectrum of the so-called non-ionizing radiation, while the naturally occurring radiation levels in part a billion times over stocked. The evolution has taken advantage of the frequency range that will now occupied by the mobile, in order to organize the control of vital processes in the interior of man. "Mobile phone transmits our cells and their exchange of information between each other," said the Consumer Affairs Office Diagnostic radio.

Cell phone radiation leads to the formation of free radicals in cells, this is scientifically proven. The organism being brought into stress. This could lead to many diseases, from fatigue to palpitations to DNA damage.

Many friends have retreated

The Vienna Medical Association warns on its website as before, mobile phones to put in your pocket. Maybe it could "affect fertility in men. Mobile phone radiation is "not as safe, as claimed by the mobile operators and over again." Such warnings, however, come with most people on deaf ears. Sensitive electric can therefore not only report of lack of understanding of their suffering, but even by a degree of social ostracism. As with Frank Berner. He had earlier and more friends. "Many have retired because they were annoyed that I am no longer mobile access, or because they are looking for a spinner to keep," he says as he sits with his parents over coffee and apple pie in the sun-drenched old apartment in Stuttgart residential area geese Heide . Berne tries a laugh, but he does not succeed so well.

After all, dealing with other people is for him has become a balancing act. "I can not go to the neighbors and say: Can you imagine that your DECT phone with us shines on the dining table? Or transmits on my sofa? I can not even come with the meter, that's embarrassing, but there feel they are harassed and oppressed. "

Berner would find it important that the public is more interested in the arguments of the critics mobile. The quote, for example, a meta of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment in 2006 in which a link between electromagnetic radiation and is "non-specific symptoms such as headache" classified as "probable". Or verify the study of a Canadian scientist who is recently managed the harmful influence of DECT phones on the heart in a double-blind trial: Magda Havas, professor of environmental studies at Trent University in Peterborough, published in October last year in the "European Journal of Oncology ", a study in which they demonstrated that there are people whose heart rate is strongly increased as soon as they keep a cordless phone to the head.

A friendship in pause mode
BfS is however disagree with the authors of these two studies. It has conducted its own studies that come to the conclusion that "it threatens to current scientific knowledge, no damage to health by the high-frequency radiation of cell phones and if the limits are met." Research needs also sees the BfS however, still possible long-term consequences and effects on children. Therefore it is advisable to keep one's exposure to radiation as a precaution as low as possible.

The casualty does not help that.

You only have one life would help in the radio hole. Frank Berner has decided to educate his neighbors but on his electric sensitivity - embarrassing or not.

Because he wants to continue his life in his socially developed environment and can not be sent back to a reserve. Equipped with a measuring device for electromagnetic pollution, he decided to direct some residents sought, he let the noise of the electromagnetic fields in their homes listening to them and tells how he is suffering from the radiation. Some have even believed him. A neighbor exchange under Berners visit all conventional DECT phones in his property against low-radiation from cordless telephones. Other roommate of a former apartment turned away baffled - even as the Bern company offered to pay all costs of conversion. And a friendly couple made the trip together covert tests with him. "The secret the WLAN have every fifteen minutes on and off and by the way I always casually asked how I am. This friendship is now in pause mode. "

His family keeps him after all. Tolerate his whims, he has not slept for nights. His emotional tension. His despair. "I see it in him. His eyes, his expression, his charisma are quite different when it is exposed to. A depletion takes place, "says his mother. And then she starts to cry almost. "Him to do so, which hurts me deeply. Because I just can not help him. "

* The names of all the neighbors have been changed.

Text: F.A.Z.
Pictures: Valerie Kirsch

Sind das jetzt die Webers, die mich grillen?

Frank Berner ist elektrosensibel. Die Strahlung von Handys und schnurlosen Telefonen macht ihn nach Meinung seiner Ärztin krank. Und weitere elf Prozent der Deutschen ebenfalls. Kann das sein?

Von Katrin Hummel, Stuttgart

Sylvie

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Nasa finds magnetic foam bubbles in space

The Voyager probes have made a surprising discovery.

http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=158207715

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Mobile Alert

TIME - CNN

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2075133_2075127_2075168,00.html

Magda

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Calculated omissions by cell phone industry citing pickles in IARC Group 2B

The cell phone industry and its proponents are trying to dismiss the IARC's extremely significant rating of radio-frequency radiation as a Group 2B carcinogen. One of the methods they are using is calculated omission. An example of their use of calculated omission is citation of items that are typically considered innocuous but are also classified as Group 2B carcinogens. One of the items they like to mention is pickles.

What they aren't telling us are the specifics of why pickles -- specifically traditional Asian pickles -- have been categorized in Group 2B.

Included below is an extract from the IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Volume 56 (1993), Summary of Data Reported and Evaluation, pages 4-6, PICKLED VEGETABLES. From it we can see that it is certain chemicals commonly found in these types of pickles that are implicated in warranting the Group 2B classification. At the end of the summary is a list of synonyms for the chemicals in question. Even a brief search on the Internet using these synonyms can indicate reasons for concern. References for the IARC summary are also included at the end of this message.

Next time the industry attempts this kind of misdirection, the full facts can set the record straight.

[From

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol56/volume56.pdf

PICKLED VEGETABLES

(Group 2B)

For definition of Groups, see Preamble Evaluation.
VOL.: 56 (1993) (p. 83)

Chemicals found in pickled vegetables

CAS No.: 16071-96-8
Chem. Abstr. Name: Bis[m-(methanethiolato)]tetranitrosodiiron
CAS No.: 90-19-7
Chem. Abstr. Name: 2-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)-3,5-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one
CAS No.: 480-19-3
Chem. Abstr. Name: 3,5,7-Trihydroxy-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one

5. Summary of Data Reported and Evaluation

5.1 Exposure data
Traditional processes for pickling vegetables in some regions of China, Japan and Korea involve fermentation of local vegetables, with or without salting. Such preparations are often eaten daily or several times a week. Among the many compounds found at low levels in pickled vegetables are N-nitrosamines and Roussin red methyl ester, which reacts with secondary amines to form N-nitrosamines.

5.2 Human carcinogenicity data
A cohort study from Japan suggests that intake of pickled vegetables is positively associated with risk for stomach cancer, but further cohort studies from Japan and Hawaii do not support an association. The methods used to determine dietary intake differed in these studies, and the types of pickled vegetables included may also have differed.

Seven case-control studies of stomach cancer have been conducted that included data on consumption of pickled vegetables. Three conducted in Japan gave negative results and another gave positive results.

One study of Japanese in Hawaii showed an association, but two conducted in China did not.

A large case-control study of oesophageal cancer in Hong Kong showed a significant dose-response relationship between consumption of pickled vegetables and oesophageal cancer, after potential confounding factors were taken into account. A study in a high- and an intermediate-risk area in China showed an association with consumption of pickled vegetable juice, although there was no association with consumption of pickled vegetables; a population-based study in a high-risk area of northern China also gave negative results for pickled vegetables.

Intake of salted/pickled vegetables (leafy vegetables, roots and olives) has been investigated in two case control studies of nasopharyngeal carcinoma from China and in one from Tunisia. One of these studies, from Guangxi, China, showed a significant association with eating salted/pickled vegetables.

Two correlation studies carried out in Japan and one carried out in Hawaii suggest a relationship between consumption of pickled vegetables and stomach cancer, but the results are not completely consistent. The results of correlation studies on oesophageal cancer were also inconsistent.

No data were available on pickled vegetables made elsewhere in the world.

5.3 Animal carcinogenicity data
No adequate study on the carcinogenicity of pickled vegetables to experimental animals was available to the Working Group.

5.4 Other relevant data
In a single study, extracts of pickled vegetables from northern China induced morphological transformation of Syrian hamster embryo cells in culture. Extracts of pickled vegetables from northern China and Japan are mutagenic to bacteria.

5.5 Evaluation
There is limited evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of pickled vegetables as prepared traditionally in Asia.

There is inadequate evidence in experimental animals for the carcinogenicity of pickled vegetables.

Overall evaluation

Pickled vegetables (traditional Asian) are possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B).

For definition of the italicized terms, see Preamble Evaluation.

Synonyms for Bis[m-(methanethiolato)]tetranitrosodiiron

Bis(methanethiolato)tetranitrosodiiron
Roussin red methyl ester
Roussin's red methyl ester

Synonyms for 2-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)-3,5-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one

C.I. 75690
7-Methoxyquercetin
7-Methylquercetin
7-O-Methylquercetin
Quercetin 7-methyl ether
Rhamnetin
b-Rhamnocitrin
3,3´,4´,5-Tetrahydroxy-7-methoxyflavone
3,5,3´4´-Tetrahydroxy-7-methoxyflavone

Synonyms for 3,5,7-Trihydroxy-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one

C.I. 75680
Isorhamnetin
Isorhamnetol
3´-Methoxyquercetin
3´-Methylquercetin
3´-O-Methylquercetin
Quercetin 3´-methyl ether
3,4´,5,7-Tetrahydroxy-3´-methoxyflavone

Last updated 08/21/1997

REFERENCES
IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans
Volume 56 (1993)
Some Naturally Occurring Substances: Food Items and Constituents, Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines and Mycotoxins
Full Volume TOC: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol56/index.php
Full Volume PDF: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol56/mono56.pdf
Summary of Data Reported and Evaluation PDF: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol56/volume56.pdf
IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans
Volume 56 (1993)
Pages 83-113
PICKLED VEGETABLES (traditional Asian)
Pickled Vegetables Report Extract PDF: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol56/mono56-7.pdf
IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans
Volume 56 (1993)
Summary of Data Reported and Evaluation
Pages 4-6
PICKLED VEGETABLES (traditional Asian)
Summary PDF: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol56/volume56.pdf

Beau

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Smart Meter Manufacturers' Association of America formed by smart meter makers

Electric Light & Power

Washington, DC, June 13, 2011 —

The Smart Meter Manufacturers' Association of America announced its formation today. SMMAA, composed of American meter manufacturers, is a nonprofit organization with a focus on smart meter advocacy and education. ...

http://www.elp.com/index/display/article-display.articles.electric-light-power.meetering.2011.06.Smart_Meter_Manufacturers__Association_of_America_formed_by_smart_meter_makers.html.html

Interesting - A group of smart meter organisations are trying to make billions of dollars from dangerous meters that are not wanted or needed, which are likely to cause serious harm to public health - then they call themselves a non profit organisation?

Perhaps the US government will see through this scam? But wait - "the association applauded the Obama administration's release of its long-awaited Smart Grid Policy Framework at an event at the White House".

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Video: Georgia Power customers concerned over new "smart meter"

Gamut News

The utility information generated by Wireless smart meters is NOT real-time and it is NOT formatted for customer use so it does NOT assist customers to use less energy or lower their utility bills. The information only assists the Utility Company to ...

http://gamutnews.com/20110613/21929/video-georgia-power-customers-concerned-over-new-smart-meter.html

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Monday, June 13, 2011

Key resolutions/appeals / 'The hum' / Planners shut wind farm down / etc

W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

13 June 2011

Key resolutions/appeals

June 11, 2011. Below are some of the key resolutions/appeals released by expert scientific groups around the world since 1998 regarding the biological and health effects of both low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMF) associated with electricity and radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic radiation (EMR) generated by wireless devices.

Anyone who reads these cannot be left with the illusion (or delusion) that this form of energy is without adverse biological and health consequences at levels well below existing guidelines.

Children are particularly vulnerable. It is irresponsible of governments to maintain the status quo in light of thousands of studies that have been published and statements by these experts.

Here are the resolutions/appeals/reports in reverse chronological order. These are presented in more detail and links are provided for each one at:

www.magdahavas.com

"International Experts' Perspective on the Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Radiation".

1. May 31, 2011: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organization (WHO) reclassified radio frequency electromagnetic fields as a Class 2B carcinogen (possibly carcinogen to humans).

2. May 2011: The Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe (PACE) released Resolution 1815 on the Potential Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields and their effect on the Environment.

3. April 2011: The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (RNCNIRP) released their Resolution entitled "Electromagnetic fields from Mobile Phones: Health Effect on Children and Teenagers".

4. 2010: Seletun Statement, Norway: The International Electromagnetic Field Alliance (IEMFA) released their report entitled Scientific Panel on Electromagnetic Field Health Risks: Consensus Points, Recommendations, and Rationales following a scientific meeting at Seletun Norway November 2009.

5. 2009: EU Parliament Electromagnetic Report and Resolution entitled:European Parliament Resolution on health concerns associated with electromagnetic fields, was adopted February 17, 2009 with 29 recommendations.

6. 2009: Porto Alegre Resolution, Brazil. Scientists and doctors recognize electrohypersensitivity and are concerned that exposure to electromagnetic fields may increase the risk of cancer and chronic diseases; that exposure levels established by international agencies (IEEE, ICNIRP, ICES) are obsolete; and that wireless technology places at risk the health of children, teens, pregnant women and others who are vulnerable.

7. 2008: Venice Resolution, Italy. International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS) Scientists recognize biological effects at non-thermal levels, that standards are inadequate, that electro-sensitivity exists and that there is a need to research mechanisms.

8. 2007: BioInitiative Report, USA. In response to statements that there are no scientific studies showing adverse biological effects of low level electromagnetic fields and radio frequency radiation, a group of researchers produced the BioInitiative Report that documents 2000 studies showing biological effects of extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields and radio frequency (RF) radiation and calling for biologically based exposure guidelines.

9. 2006: Benevento Resolution, Italy. The International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS) organized a conference entitled: The Precautionary EMF Approach: Rationale, Legislation and Implementation.Scientists at this conference signed the Benevento Resolution that consists of 7 major statements.

10. 2005: Helsinki Appeal, Finland. Physicians and researchers presented the Helsinki Appeal to the European Parliament.

11. 2005: Irish Doctors' Environmental Association (IDEA), Ireland.Members of IDEA wrote a position paper on electromagnetic radiation. Doctors recognize electrohypersensitivity (EHS) is increasing and request advice from government on how to treat EHS.

12. 2002. Catania Resolution, Italy. This resolution was signed by scientists at the international conference "State of the Research on Electromagnetic Fields-Scientific and Legal Issues".

13. 2002 : Freiburg Appeal, Germany. Physicians request tougher guidelines for radio frequency exposure. This document was endorsed by thousands of healthcare practitioners.

14. 2002: Salzburg Resolution, Austria. The Salzburg Resolution on Mobile Telecommunication Base Stations makes four recommendations including preliminary guidelines 0f 0.1 microW/cm2 for sum of all emissions from mobile phone stations.

15. 2000: Stewart Report, UK. The Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones (IEGMP) produced a report, Mobile Phones and Health, that is commonly referred to as the Stewart Report, named after its Chairman Sir William Stewart.

16. 1998: Vienna EMF Resolution, Austria. Workshop on Possible Biological and Health Effects of RF Electromagnetic Fields.

Based on these resolutions and appeals from international groups of physicians and scientists immediate action is required to protect public health from continued increasing exposure to radio frequency radiation and electromagnetic fields.

I call on . . .

regulators around the world to reexamine existing guidelines for both EMF and EMR and to reduce them to the lowest possible levels to protect the public and workers. Values above 4 milliGauss (low frequency magnetic fields); above 0.1 microW/cm2 (power density for radio frequency radiation) and above 40 GS units (dirty electricity) have been associated with adverse health effects in peer reviewed scientific publications!

government agencies responsibility for the location of both base stations and power lines to keep distances at least 400 meters (base stations) and 100 meters (transmission lines) from residential properties as well as school and health care facilities.

utilities (water, gas, electricity) to reconsider the use of wireless smart meters and provide wired options for those who are sensitive, for those who do not want to be exposed, and for those in densely populated settings.

manufacturers who are providing technology that uses electricity and/or emits radio frequency radiation to re-engineer their products to provide the minimum radiation possible. This includes light bulbs, computers, wireless home devices like baby monitors and cordless phones, cell phones, smart meters, plasma TVs, among others.

architects, builders, electricians, and plumbers to design and construct buildings that are based on principles of good electromagnetic hygiene. This includes using materials that absorb or shield building interiors from microwave radiation especially near external sources of this radiation and in multi-unit buildings; to provide wired alternatives to wireless devices; to properly wire and ground buildings to minimize low frequency electromagnetic fields and to eliminate ground current problems; and to install filters on electrical panels and/or throughout the building to ensure good power quality.

local, state, federal health authorities to educate medical professions about the potential biological effects of both low frequency and radio frequency electromagnetic energy; about the growing number of people who have electrosensitivity (ES) or electrohypersensitivity (EHS) and to alert them on how they can help their patients in terms of minimizing their exposure and promoting their recovery.

hospitals and health care centres to review their policy on wireless technology and to provided electromagnetically-clean areas within these centres for those who are sensitive to this radiation.

school boards to reopen their policy on the preference of WiFi (wireless technology) over wired internet access and not allow towers/antennas within 400 meters of their school property.

parents to practice good electromagnetic hygiene especially in the bedroom and especially for their children. This involves using wired rather than wireless devices in the home, keeping electric appliances away from the bed, turning off/unplugging devices when not in use.

the media to provide information to the public about the health and safety of using this technology; to rely on "independent experts" who do not receive funding or other benefits based on the outcome of research studies; and to identify experts funded by the industry as "industry representatives". The integrity of many of these scientists leaves much to be desired.

Dr Magda Havas

Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada

www.magdahavas.com

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Tiny village is latest victim of the 'The hum' - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8566281/Tiny-village-is-latest-victim-of-the-The-hum.html

Catherine

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Exasperated planners shut wind farm down

http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/Exasperated-planners-shut-wind-farm-down-6934757.htm

Catherine

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European Leaders Call for Ban of Cell Phones and WiFi in Schools

Dr. Mercola | June 02 2011 | 32,583 views

http://emf.mercola.com/sites/emf/archive/2011/06/02/european-leaders-call-for-ban-of-cell-phones-and-wifi-in-schools.aspx

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Confused about mobile phones and base stations?

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=126980

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Camp Herms Cell Tower Plan Cancelled by T-Mobile

Patch.com

A controversial proposal to erect a cell-phone tower at the Boy Scouts' Camp Herms in El Cerrito has been canceled by T-Mobile, the Boy Scouts announced.

http://elcerrito.patch.com/articles/camp-herms-cell-tower-plan-canceled-by-t-mobile

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Come clean, cell phone companies

Ali Velshi - Video

http://alivelshi.com/newsnow/come-clean-cell-phone-companies/

Ellie

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W.E.E.P. – The Canadian initiative to stop Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Food Apocalypse ? / WEEP Initiative EHS Support / EMF-Omega News / etc.

W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

12 June 2011

Higher food prices on the horizon

International Business Times

Just last week the public was informed by the World Health Organization that cell phones could be a possible carcinogen.

However, brain tumors may not be the immediate problem that needs to be addressed in relation to the dangers of cellular technology ...

http://losangeles.ibtimes.com/articles/160958/20110610/food-apocalypse-higher-food-prices-on-the-horizon-honeybees-famine-cell-phone.htm

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WEEP Initiative EHS Support

http://www.facebook.com/pages/WEEP-Initiative-EHS-Support/199282410110755

Sue

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www.emfandhealth.com

webmaster and ''bad EMF science'' critic Lorne Trottier, who calls Magda Havas and Sam Milham ''alarmists'', owns computer company Matrox.

He donated 12 million $ to McGill's faculties of Engineering and Science in 2006 and 10 million $ in 2000 to its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Computer Science

Details:

http://www.mcgill.ca/campaign/historymakers/trottier/

Andre

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Control systems, smart meters could be vulnerable to smart grid attack

Infosecurity Magazine (US)

Power plant control systems and smart meters are two components of the smart grid that could be particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks, says Ulf Lindqvist, program director at SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. ...

http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/18605/control-systems-smart-meters-could-be-vulnerable-to-smart-grid-attack/

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Face to Face with Dr. Magda Havas

Trent University toxicologist Dr. Magda Havas is our special guest in this episode. Dr. Havas is a leading researcher who has been studying the health effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic energy at the extremely low frequency range (60 Hertz) and at the radio frequency range commonly associated with wireless telecommunication. In this interview, she discusses aspects of wireless technology that the mainstream media, the telecommunications industry and Industry and Health Canada don't want you to know about. Some of what she says is truly shocking ... and a total condemnation of our corrupt governments and media, and the corporations behind them both.
On our community TV station:

Channel 11 in Victoria and Saltspring Island

Saturday June 11 at 11AM and 11:30 PM

Sunday June 12 at 10AM and 9PM

Also on the net at:

http://www.vimeo.com/24733700

and :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBkb1WbuzvI

Sharon

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VIDEO: Smart Meters Spark Debate in Shelby Twp.

Patch.com

Conversation heated up Tuesday at the Shelby Township Board of Trustees meeting when DTE representatives came to speak about smart meters. By Marina Cracchiolo | Email the author | 4:08pm For more information about smart meters in Shelby Township, ...

http://shelby-utica.patch.com/articles/video-smart-meters-spark-debate-in-shelby-twp#video-6518521

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The Great Cancer Hoax:

The Brilliant Cure the FDA Tried Their Best to Shut Down...

Posted By Dr. Mercola

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/11/burzynski-the-movie.aspx

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Presentation of Prof. Dominique Belpomme / more evidence / etc

W.E.E.P. News

Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution News

11 June 2011

Presentation of Prof. Dominique Belpomme at 8^th National Congress on Electrosmog, Berne, 2011

Prof. Belpomme is Professor of Clinical Oncology, University Paris-Descartes. He practices medical Oncology and Environmental Medicine at the Alleray-Labrouste Clinic (Paris). He is also president of ARTAC (Association for Research and Treatment against Cancer) and Chairman of ISDE-France (International Society of Doctors for Environment). http://www.artac.info/

Clinical and biological description of the electromagnetic field intolerance syndrome (EMFIS)

Between May 2008 and March 2010, 425 patients reporting hypersensitivity to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) were examined in a clinical and biological setting. Ninety-five per cent of them clearly reported the repeated occurrence and disappearance of symptoms linked to the presence or absence of EMFs. Three clinical phases were distinguished: an initial stage during which EMF exposure can induce headaches, a sensation of heating in the ear and other parts of the body, especially the upper part of the body, tinnitus, ocular abnormalities, myalgia, and, in some cases, dermatitis and symptoms such as chest tightness, palpitations, tachycardia and nausea. A second phase is characterized by insomnia, chronic fatigue and depressive tendencies, attention deficit, troubles with concentration, immediate memory loss, behavioral problems, and anxiety, during which the initial symptoms may occur every time the patient is exposed to EMF sources.

In addition to the detection of brain vascular hypo-perfusion (decreased blood flow in certain areas of the brain), predominantly in the limbic area, blood tests revealed increased histamine levels in 36% of patients, an increase in heat shock proteins in 45%, a decreased level of melatonin in 33%, and vitamin D deficiency in 70% of patients.

Specific observations and tests were also included, proving that cerebral suffering was due to EMFs. There is a third phase, suggesting that an EMF intolerance syndrome may correspond to a pre-Alzheimer's disease state. In a recent interview (September 2010), Pr Belpomme stated that "there is an important link between electromagnetic fields and neuro-degenerative diseases, notably Alzheimer's. The risk of Alzheimer's, which can arise in young persons from age 45, is moreover much more important than the risk of cancer." The therapy for treating persons suffering from EMFIS includes prescription of omega 3's, anti-oxidants, vitamin D, and anti-histamines.

Excerpts from Metro-France interview with Prof. Dominique Belpomme, President, ARTAC, September 2010

There is a proven link between electromagnetic fields, cancer and leukemia. We (ARTAC and our Swedish colleagues) also studied an important link to neuro-degenerative diseases, notably Alzheimer's. The risk of Alzheimer's, which can appear in young persons from age 45, is much greater than the cancer risk.

Since last year, in my consultations in environmental medicine, I have been seeing between 10-20 sick persons every week. More and more parents are coming to see me for their children who have headaches, memory, concentration and language problems, and dyslexia.

This is a major public health risk. There is a neuro-generative pathology probably linked to the opening of the blood-brain barrier through EM waves and/or toxic substances. These troubles can be minor, such as headaches, or much more serious such as the beginning of Alzheimer's.

Based on the more than 400 persons who have consulted me, we have established a diagnostic test which rests essentially on a cerebral pulsed echodoppler technique and on blood tests. These permit us to see evidence of an increase in certain stress proteins which translate into the existence of brain pathology.

We have established treatment to make these symptoms regress, however this does not prevent a recurrence. Thus, there is the necessity of adding protective measures to this treatment: creation of "white zones", notably in public establishments and in public transport. We must do as for smoking: forbid Wi-Fi in certain zones, as in libraries. We must forbid installation of relay antennas near nurseries and schools. These are urgent protective measures to be taken, but are unfortunately not being applied.

My discourse goes against financial and economic interests, but one should not sacrifice the well-being of these sick persons for the interests of political and public authorities.

A major public health risk exists. Studies show that from 10 to 50% of the population could be affected by intolerance to EM fields in the next 25-50 years. We will have to pay the consequences if we do not take precautionary and preventive measures now.

There are many doctors who do not recognize this pathology and thus, deny the evidence. But a growing number understand that something is happening and refer sick persons to me. It is they whom we should rely on and that is why I am organizing in April 2011, the Third Colloquium of the Paris Appeal at UNESCO, which will be followed by an intensive course to train professionals in environmental pathologies.

(Note: 300 doctors, researchers and health professionals attended the Colloquium on "Children's Health and the Environment" and 43 doctors and health professionals followed the course in environmental medicine.)

Meris

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Mobile phones cause brain tumours - more evidence

The new study claims to be the first to use estimates of RF energy absorbed at the centre of brain tumours as a measure of radio-frequency (RF) dose. An increased risk of glioma was seen in the 20% of users with the highest exposure and also in people with the longest-term use.

Click here for the full news story

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20110610-mobile-phone-tumours-evidence.asp

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Ironically, as many are asking what research should
be done after IARC's decision to designate RF radiation as a possible cancer agent, Australia's RF research center has closed down. We think we know why.

In other news, Anders Ahlbom has resigned from a key Swedish government advisory panel. And two new Interphone papers are now available.

Read all the details on our home page:

http://www.microwavenews.com

Best,
Louis Slesin, PhD
Editor, Microwave News

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Young cancer survivor determined to help others

Niagara Falls Review

Surgeons were able to remove at least half of the tumour. When she woke from surgery, Kelsey was on a breathing tube and unable to speak. She made hand signals to her mother, who quickly realize she was asking for her cell phone. ...

http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3163400

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Towering concern

Standard Freeholder

Citing European studies, Marshall said he is concerned that radio frequency waves emitted from the tower may cause diseases such as cancer.

But according to Health Canada, radio frequency energy from cell phone towers is too low to cause adverse health ...

http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3163658

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To: webmaster@emfandhealth.com

http://www.emfandhealth.com/index.html

Dear EMF & Health:

Dr. Ariel Fenster

Harvey Kofsky

Michel Plante

Dr. Joe Schwarcz

Lorne Trottier (webmaster: combating pseudo-science).

Congratulations collaborator's and contributors.

It has come to my attention many months ago that such a disinformation website is available, not as a real science source in which competent information can be disseminated, but quite the opposite in order to cause confusion to those who know no better. Since I have an open mind and take everything into consideration, and since the title of your website appears to be pertaining to health, I decided to look at your website.

Unfortunately what I found on your website was lower than that of Kindergarten status (no offense to the Kindergarten children intended). It is clear that some links on your website to back up scientific argument are by bloggers with very limited intelligence, if they know what the word "intelligence" actually means, remains a mystery.

Upon further reading of your website, I could not stop laughing at the content which defies logic, reason, and reality by distorting the well known scientific facts (or by explanations which do not relate with the facts). The site is very good for a laugh, but other than that, it is of no value at all, to persons seeking a balanced perspective of the science which has been available for years. Scientists which have proven/shown biological effects from wireless communications are discredited on the website (by some pseudo-scientific explanation, or by the title of being "alarmist") this is a very old tactic to convince the ignorant that all is well. The tactic is synonymous with a broken record which spins around and gets no-where.

Does that also mean that the cellphone industry scientific studies showing biological effects, military scientists showing biological effects, which are also shown as deleterious: Should the website also discredit all of these scientists which go back to the 1950's as well? If the persons on the website decide this, I suggest they work day and night to keep their disinformation campaign going, only ignorant troll bloggers devoid of rational thinking may believe the content of the website?

The International Agency for Research on Cancer [IARC] an arm of the [WHO] issued a press release on 31 May 2011 with regards to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields RF EMR as being a (class 2B carcinogen) just after Anders Ahlbom was found to have "conflicts of interest" hence he was eliminated from participation in the discussions. He also tried to point the finger at Lennart Hardell, however there are no "conflicts of interest" (no surprises there). This was a vain attempt by Anders Ahlbom to try to save his reputation and be part of the [IARC] discussions, the scandal was not anticipated, but opened the eyes of many around the world to the corruption within Industry and their ilk.

It appears that the website now attempts to cause confusion / discredit [IARC] and the [WHO] by stating "this is at odds with the conclusions of expert groups " which when I click on the link it directs me to http://www.emfandhealth.com/Science%20Sources.html which just happens to have the [WHO] listed in the Recent Updates. "It seems like someone wants to have their cake and eat it too"? Very interesting odd behaviour indeed.

It appears that when the [WHO] conforms with the thinking of the website contributors, it is convenient to "jump on the bandwagon and play a tune", but when the [WHO] classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as a (class 2B carcinogen) ... for the website contributors the [WHO] is no longer convenient and so-called conclusions of expert groups are mentioned to be used as a feeble defense mechanism to keep spinning the misinformation. All in all the website has nothing to do with health, it is a poorly devised public relations exercise which even a person with limited intelligence should be able to understand.

Off course this correspondence is in relation to what has been viewed on the so-called Health and EMR website, and also my opinion which I am entitled to.

I wonder if the contributors who write all the rubbish on the EMR and Health website have any "conflicts of interest" to disseminate such rubbish?

EMF & Health (dedicated to discrediting real science).

Yours Sincerely,
Enrico Grani

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On witness stand, Cummings reveals cell-tower role

UID>/INBOX>68069">Scranton Times-Tribune

Last year, as The Times-Tribune was investigating a county cell tower project federal prosecutors say resulted in a kickback to former Commissioner Robert C. Cordaro, Dunmore attorney Thomas P. Cummings refused to say he was an owner of the company ...

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/on-witness-stand-cummings-reveals-cell-tower-role-1.1159964#axzz1OvQm169p

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Shoreline Cell Tower Restrictions Bill Gets Senate Approval

UID>/INBOX>68069">Patch.com

Ed Meyer (D-Guilford) and the entire Senate late today gave final approval to a bill which substantially changes the siting and approval process for cellular telephone towers–a particularly thorny issue for citizens in Branford and other shoreline ...

http://branford.patch.com/articles/shoreline-cell-tower-restrictions-bill-gets-senate-approval

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Report: Phones really could cause planes to crash

UID>/INBOX>68069">CNET

I would believe their results over what the airlines say ! by MEPace (182 comments ) June 9, 2011 3:30 PM PDT Not to mention that cell towers are almost constantly broadcasting their signals. by OniOokamiAlfador (2604 comments ) June 9, ...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20070342-71/report-phones-really-could-cause-planes-to-crash

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Public Meeting regarding WiFi in Schools ?

Please share this email with parents, teachers, trustees, government officials, doctors, the media and others interested in the issue of WiFi in Schools.

The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board is having a public meeting regarding WiFi in schools but only a few select individuals are allowed to present. The list is provided at the end of this email.

Individuals who oppose WiFi installations in favor of wired installations are not allowed to present.

I asked to be a presenter but was not given permission despite the fact that new information from various organizations has been recently made available and that I have scientific expertise regarding the health effects of radio frequency radiation. I was told this is not a debate.

The School Board approved having WiFi installed in all KPRD schools earlier this year, despite the fact that parents and others presented evidence that this form of radiation may not be safe and that it was better to be safe than sorry and to err on the side of caution. Medical Doctors, David Carpenter and Stephen Sinatra, wrote to the school board stating this radiation was not safe.

A recent (May 31, 2011) World Health Organization reclassification of radio frequency electromagnetic fields (which includes WiFi radiation) as a "possible human carcinogen" is being ignored.

The recent recommendations by the Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe (Canada has observer status) that "for children in general, and particularly in schools and classrooms, give preference to wired Internet connections, and strictly regulate the use of mobile phones by schoolchildren on school premises;" is being ignored.

Studies at Queen's University and elsewhere, which show that this radiation (from cell phone and wireless computers) affects sperm quality and may adversely affect reproduction, is being ignored.

Parents are silenced. Trustees are not returning calls. Teachers have been disciplined for questioning school board policy. Teachers who are sensitive to this radiation fear that they will not be able to continue teaching once the WiFi radiation is activated.

We asked that wired internet access be made available (indeed this is already present at many schools). But this request has been ignored.

If WiFi is installed we asked that the system be designed so that the WiFi routers can be turned off when not in use; that WiFi-free areas be established in schools; and that students-whose parents do not want them exposed-be allowed to use wired computers for internet access. While this would not eliminate their exposure it would reduce it since the highest levels of radiation are near the computers. We have yet to hear if any of these recommendations are being seriously considered.

We are told that the level of radiation from WiFi in classrooms is so low it can't possibly have any health effects. Yet, levels of radiation at a school in Collingwood exceeded the Safety Code 6 Guidelines in one classroom nearest the computer! Clearly those making such statements about how low levels are and that they can't possibly have biological effects are unfamiliar with the research.

As I scientist, who knows how harmful this radiation is, it is impossible for me to remain silent. If it weren't for the children, I would walk away from this, allow the school board to install WiFi and then document the changes over time. Some children will remain unaffected but some will become ill immediately and others will become ill over a period of time. How many will develop cancer and have reproductive problems only time will tell. The same will happen to teachers. The question is no longer "if this will happen" but rather "how many will be affected and how quickly".

No University Ethic Board in North America would grant permission for this type of research (i.e. to expose children, grades K to 12, to low level microwave radiation for hours each day for 13 years and to study the biological effects). And while schools and libraries in other parts of the world are removing WiFi, the KPRD School Board is going ahead with this experiment despite International Authorities recommending otherwise!

We exposed children to lead, to asbestos, to DDT, to second hand smoke before we realized this exposure was harmful. Now toys from China with lead paint are returned and make headline news! Yet we are willing to expose children to microwave radiation in the classroom AFTER we are told this radiation is unsafe at levels below existing federal and international guidelines. This is willful ignorance and has legal implications.

Please come to this meeting. Please challenge the decision to expose students in the KPRDSB to microwave radiation for 1200 hours each and every year. Please, if we don't speak out on their behalf . . . who will?

-magda

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Dr. Magda Havas, B.Sc. Ph.D.

Environmental & Resource Studies,

Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8

phone: 705 748-1011 x 7882 fax: 705 748-1569

mhavas@trentu.ca

www.magdahavas.com (general)

www.magdahavas.org (academic)

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June 10, 2011

Ms. Lloyd,

Thank you for sending me this list of presenters at the School Board meeting on June 27th at 7pm at the School Board meeting at Queen Mary Public School in Peterborough.

I will remind you that you have heard from Dr. Wortis before at your Board meetings, so it is odd that you would allow her to speak and not me.

I would also like to inform you that neither Dr. Wortis nor Dr. Shiell are experts on the biological effects of this radiation and I sincerely hope that their contribution will relate to their own area of expertise and not on the biological or health effects.

I will share this list with others. It would be useful if you informed the Peterborough Examiner and others who are interested in attending regarding this list of presenters.

-magda havas

p.s. It is easy to prevent a debate if everyone invited to speak has the same opinion. However, that does not ensure that the opinions expressed are correct or representative. Attempts at silencing those with opposing views seldom works in the end. It simply identifies those among us who fear challenge and shun the truth.

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On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Diane Lloyd wrote:

Dr. Havas, here is the list of presenters that you asked for.

External

Dr. Rosana Pellizzari, Medical Officer of Health, Peterborough County-City Health Unit

Dr. Rachel Wortis, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy at Trent University

Dr. Ralph Shiell, Associate Professor , Department of Physics and Astronomy at Trent University

Internal

Ron Plaizier, Chief Information Officer, Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board

James Rielly, Principal, Crestwood Secondary School, Peterborough

John Goheen, Principal, Percy Centennial Public School, Warkworth

Diane

Chairperson - Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board

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Ahlbom resigns

Please, see today's news from Mona Nilsson, the Swedish digging journalist who unfolded the first scandal about Ahlbom:

Ahlbom resigns as chairman from Swedish Radiation Protection Authority

http://www.stralsakerhetsmyndigheten.se/Om-myndigheten/Aktuellt/Nyheter/Myndigheten-accepterar-Anders-Ahlboms-begaran-om-att-bli-entledigad-som-ordforande-i-vetenskapligt-rad/

There is of course also an urgent need to review and reconsider the reports to the EU commission under the chairmanship of Ahlbom and the other experts relation to ICNIRP and the mobile phone industry. Two other members, Mattsson and Hillert, are at the same time members of Telia Sonera's scientific counsel, and the brother of Ahlbom worked for Telia Sonera for 13 years.

With my very best regards
Yours sincerely
Olle
(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
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Cell Phones Aren't Good for Protozoa

Russia-InfoCenter

In our everyday life we spend a good deal of time being under influence of weak electromagnetic radiation – it can come from mobile phones or microwave ovens, for instance. Active debates about possible danger of this type of radiation take place all ...

The protozoa are one-celled animals and the smallest of all animals. Most of them can only be seen under a microscope. They do breathe, move, and reproduce ...

http://www.russia-ic.com/education_science/science/breakthrough/1376/

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Listen to health experts

Edmonton Journal

When one considers the independent research of numerous experts on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation, the recent WHO warning seems extremely weak. It's clear that Health Canada needs to take a much stronger role in making Canadians aware ...

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/Listen+health+experts/4923462/story.html

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EHS and MCS

Another step forward. Articulating the issues.

Andrew Michrowski

From Sylvie

Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:55 PM

Subject: MEETING AT THE WHO MAY 13th 2011

http://www.infoamica.it/engart.asp?a=10&sa=0&art=418

SUMMARY OF THE MEETING AT THE WHO HEADQUARTERS GENEVA, MAY 13th 2011

04.06.2011

Attendees:

Dr. María Neira. Director of Public Health and Environment Department.

Dr. Annette Prüss-Ustün. Team Leader of Public Health and Environment Department.

Dr. Ivan D. Ivanov. Occupational Health, Public Health and Environment Department.

Dr. T. Bedirhan Üstün. Coordinator: Classifications, Terminology and Standards, Department of Health Statistics and Information.

Ms. Nada Osseiran. Communications Officer, Public Health and Environment Department.

Dr. Anunciación Lafuente. Professor of toxicology at the University of Vigo and Vice-President of the Spanish Association of Toxicology (AETOX).

Dr. Julián Márquez. Clinical neurologist and neurophysiologist specializing in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity patients and Electrohipersensitivity patients.

Mrs. Isabel Daniel. Nurse specializing in neurophysiology.

Mr. Jaume Cortés. Member of the Ronda Lawyers Group. A lawyer specializing in labor law and environmental illnesses (MCS and EHS) and member of the (Spain's) National Committee for the Recognition of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome.

Ms. Sonia Ortiga. Lawyer specialized in environment.

Ms. Francesca R. Orlando. Vice-President of the Italian association AMICA.

Mrs. Francisca Gutiérrez. President of the Spanish association ASQUIFYDE and member of the (Spain's) National Committee for the Recognition of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome.

Jaume Cortés opens the intervention by raising some basic questions to address the issue of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) and Electrohipersensibility (EHS).

a) MCS and EHS are real health problems.

b) There is evidence to confirm this statement:

- Medical diagnostics.

- Reports of work inspections establishing causality between exposure and disease.

- There are scientific studies that confirm its existence.

- There is a recognition by the European Parliament of these diseases, evidence that is provided in the dossier presented today.

- There are 200 judgments in favor in Spain that support this evidence.

- We are getting in Spain (economic) 'compensation' for patients.

c) We need to include these illnesses in the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD), because what makes it more difficult for legal recognition is precisely the lack of code for these diseases in the ICD.

Then, Dr. Julián Márquez intervened, expressing how one of the problems faced by patients is the lack of understanding of the medical staff because these pathologies are little known or are unknown.

Regarding MCS, the cause of the outbreak, in a very high percentage of cases, are organophosphate insecticides. In most patients there is no poisoning, since they do not have the conditions that correspond to a poisoning. Clinical manifestations begin with a exposure and disappear or improve when patients avoid the toxic origin.

MCS is a multisystem disease and in about 90% of cases it affects the nervous system. There is an important neurocognitive disorder with symptoms such as headaches, numbness, muscle weakness, dizziness; all accompanied by multisystem disorders, respiratory, cardiovascular, hormonal, etc. In women, there are common disorders of the menstrual cycle and in an important percentage, a large decrease in libido.

Dr. Márquez recalls that Environmental Intolerance is recognized by the WHO itself by saying that a small dose of a substance is not just annoying, but that it can cause a clinical problem: irritation, burning, headaches, etc.

The adverse reactions to chemicals or electromagnetic radiation vary in duration according to each patient, and the manifestations differ too. When the patient is again exposed, symptoms usually worsen or result in the appearance of new symptoms.

The diagnosis, both in MCS and in the EHS is clinical. In the case of MCS it can be used a test that helps the clinician, which is the QEESI. Through this test there an attempt to objectify the patient's symptoms.

However, these diagnoses require a protocol which takes a trial run, a complete neurological examination, both central and peripheral, a neurophysiological examination (EEG, Visual Evoked Potentials, Acoustic Evoked Potentials of the brainstem, Somesthetic Potentials and Cognitive Potential P.300), neuroimaging studies (especially cranial and pituitary MRI and SPECT), specific analytical studies, hormone studies, etc. It is also of great interest to do a Neuropsychological study conducted by expert personnel in search of a frontal dysfunction, fronto-temporal, etc. as well as evaluating the degree of neuropsicological injury. The more serious the neuropsicological problem is, the higher the level of disturbance and therefore the data provided by the neurophysiological and neuropsychological examinations and, to a lesser degree, of Neuroimaging. It is necessary that such studies are conducted by experts in neurophysiology.

The process of these diseases (MCS and EHS) is chronic and the patient's situation is exacerbated if he/she lives in a toxic environment, such as near Tarragona petrochemical industry or subjected to electromagnetic radiation: emissions in the neighborhood, mobile phone antennas , etc. The patient has to avoid re-exposure.

It is essential that the patient has a clinical reference center where he/she can be diagnosed, to solve doubts and to provide counseling and social and labor help, and wher he/she can obtain medical reports timely.

By the time constraints, Dr. Neira gave the floor to Dr. Üstün, coordinator of the ICD of the Statistics Department at WHO.

Since 1948, WHO is responsible for the international classification of diseases and every 10 years a review of this classification takes place. Currently the WHO is working on the next review that should be completed by the year 2015.

WHO is aware of the relationship that exists between certain diseases and environmental problems. At present, there is a strong debate on the inclusion/non inclusion of certain diseases, and WHO recognizes the controversy that is being generated.

The 2010 revisions are being made by a group of experts. Between 2001 and 2009 annual reviews are made by expert groups in the presence of the health ministries of the Member States. This model has been widely criticized since it was said that only national delegations could participate and the proposals did not correspond to real needs. We reviewed the methodology of work, while respecting the needs and allowing participation to the public through a virtual platform.

The ICD is an instrument of scientific evidence, following a methodology very specific about the scientific studies presented. Should be given several requirements: causality, etiology, diagnostic test, etc.

Dr. Neira intervenes to explain that the documentation provided by the Committee of Representatives (thus, our delegation) should follow this methodology.

Dr. Lafuente, from his experience in basic science, indicates that there are scientific literature that supports the appropriateness of both diseases to be recognized and included in the ICD.

Dr. Üstün explained that the revisions are being made by groups of scientific advisors. First, one must know which are the environmental illnesses and if they are occupational diseases and, second, to quantify the level of morbidity.

Francisca Gutiérrez asked Dr. Üstun how can it be that some countries like Germany, Japan, Austria and Luxembourg have recognized MCS, in their ICD, but the rest of the countries don't. This creates a situation of inequality between patients in different countries.

Dr. Üstün explained that the ICD is a global level, but nevertheless all countries, in exercise of its sovereignty, may exercise any necessary changes.

In the words of Dr. Üstün, on May 16th 2011, a very generic first draft of this review would take place, and in May 2012 they may have a much more detailed draft prepared. In 2015, during the World Health Assembly, they will announce the results.

In the course of the work, there will be a scientific debate about where to place these kind of diseases. This is a complex issue, because often there are no agreements regarding the medical specialty as to where to classify a concrete pathology, especially in the case of MCS and EHS, because they are multisystemic diseases.

The draft classification will be open and transparent, and information will be available on the WHO website.

Dr. Neira believes that it would be interesting for groups with these diseases (MCS and EHS) to get in contact with other working groups, such as those being developed in relation to REACH (REACH is the Regulation on "Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals". It entered into force on 1st June 2007. It streamlines and improves the former legislative framework on chemicals of the European Union).

Both Francisca Gutiérrez and Francesca R. Orlando intervene to make it clear to Dr. Neira their full agreement that from the scientific evidence the organic and acquired origin of these patologies are being shown, and that only through this evidence appropriate solutions could be found, and that is also useful to work on prevention, since these are preventable diseases.

Francisca Gutiérrez transmits to Dr. Neira the concern of patient associations by the growing number of young people affected, including children; some also with school problems. Mrs. Gutiérrez explains that this issue is connected with the prevalence of gender in these diseases, the female reproductive function and the transmission of the toxic load that the mother has acquired throughout her life, and especially exposure during the pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Francesca R. Orlando asked the WHO officials if there is any WHO position paper on MCS and Dr. Neira and Dr. Üstün replayed that, as far as they know, there isn't any document from their respective departments.

This looks quite important for those countries where the recognition of MCS was stopped by the quotation of a "presumed" IPCS-WHO position on the adoption of the definition of "Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance" or "IEI", which came out of the Berlin workshop in 1996.

Dr. Neira proposed that the associations concerned do establish contact with the various working groups of WHO all over the world that are working in the ICD 11.

Dr. Lafuente confirms the representatives of WHO that patients with MCS and EHS are hypersensitive individuals, as they respond to very low doses of xenobiotics to which most of the population do not react. That is to say, in the graphical representation of the relationship dose-response these patients are in the leftmost tail of the Gauss (bell) curve.

Francisca Gutiérrez explains to Dr. Neira, that what was explained by Dr. Lafuente does not mean a low number of affected people, but quite the opposite. We are facing very high numbers of people already diagnosed, and also between 12% and 15% of the population has some kind of disturbance in the presence of a chemical substance. In the EHS, figures of affected people are between 3 and 6% of the population, but these numbers are growing continuously.

Dr. María Neira, who always showed great kindness, and spent more time than expected, still acompanied us (the delegation) to the exterior of the building as she had to attend the next meeting. She told us that she remains at our disposal.

The Representatives Committee is thankful to Dr. Neira and her team for their kindness and attention, given the importance of the subject matter.

SOME FINDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1 .- The rules to update the ICD changed. Before, only national health delegates could participate. Nowadays, there is more openness re: the participation to develop the new code through the virtual platform, which can be positive. From the "WHO Campaign 2011", working groups worldwide can be arranged to participate, in a coordinated way and with agreed criteria, for both diseases.

2 .- We believe that there are enough scientific studies that show the existence of MCS and EHS, so to have an access code (ICD) like other countries that already have it, should not be too problematic. We have to systematize the information in accordance with WHO methodology to be evaluated positively.

3 .- Perhaps the most delicate aspect is the fact that MCS and EHS are multisystemic diseases and could be placed in different fields of classification (medical specialities), although we must not forget the great importance of the neurological symptoms. We need to establish a new medical paradigm that answers some questions referring to these emerging diseases, including their classification in the ICD.

4 .- The WHO knows that these conditions exist.

5 .- Within WHO the emergence of these diseases has generated a controversy, but the explanation of changes in the methodology of work for the development of the ICD for calendar 2015 and possible participation in working groups opens new possibilities for recognition.

6 .- Each country can recognize these diseases and include them in their ICE, independently of WHO, since according to the WHO countries have sovereignty on this issue.

Source: http://www.asquifyde.es/noticia-detalle.aspx?noticia=1330

Andrew

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