From Eileen O’Connor: I would like to thank John Lincoln from ARPANSA’s ELF working group committee (Australia’s national radiation protection agency) for his response to my open letter which can be viewed at: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=1098 copy of John”s response to my open letter can be viewed at http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=1099 I do understand that electrical induction is as
Read more →From Cindy Sage: Repacholi is still trying to pay a buck and a $50 tip to cover a $1000 bar bill. Risky business. The only precautionary action that will save him from harm here is to vacate the premises before the bouncer catches him. Repacholi invokes the usual “thermalist vs non-thermalist” argument to make this
Read more →From Lyn McLean, EMR Australia: “The June issue of “EMR and Health” is now available and contains all the latest news and research, together with a feature on how EMR affects sleep and subsequently health.” For more information, see www.emraustralia.com.au or contact us on 02 9576 1772.” warm regards Lyn McLean Director EMR Australia PL
Read more →From Alasdair Philips, Powerwatch (UK) They have increased the public max to 300 uT to allow for the latest UK HPA (NRPB) thinking and calculations and to cover public exposure in some trains and trams situations. Actually, I don’t think that is a big issue. The problem is for low-level chronic exposures and even if
Read more →From John Lincoln, ARPANSA ELF Working Group member Hi Don Look I understand the concerns of so many people about the ELF draft, but let me make a few points. 1. There is now a very large inclusion on precaution, both within the body of the standard (Section 6) and in the Annexe (Annexe 6).
Read more →From Eileen O”Connor, Director EM Radiation Research Trust (U.K.): At a time when there are calls for tightening EMF power-frequency exposure standards to address cancer risks, Australia is moving in the opposite direction. Read the whole story at: http://www.microwav enews.com/ EMFConceits. html Comment from Mike Repacholi comment: “People don”t realize that the ICNIRP limits are
Read more →As concerns grow about the possible dangers from cell phones, especially for children, there is a corresponding increase in advertisements for all sorts of so-called protective devices. Purple Angels, Safety Butterflys, BioPro, Q-Link, Delta Shield, Waveshield, etc, etc. The one thing all these wondrous devices have in common, however, is that the only thing they
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: At a time when there are calls for tightening EMF power-frequency exposure standards to address cancer risks, Australia is moving in the opposite direction. In mid-May, a committee working under ARPANSA, the national radiation protection agency, distributed a draft proposal that would triple the permissible exposure levels for the general
Read more →Well worth a visit is the Blog “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” – Opinions on mobile phone safety by Research Professor Dariusz Leszczynski from the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland. http://www.stuk.fi/blog/leszczynski http://www.stuk.fi/blog/leszczynski/fi_FI/15_05_2009/
Read more →A new paper has been added to the www.emfacts.com web site. Titled “Addiction to cell phones: are there neurophysiological mechanisms involved?” ,the paper by Afonso Balmori and Maria Paz de la Puente, looks at cell phone use as an addiction problem, especially for children and young people. Originally published in the Spanish magazine Proyecto, Vol.
Read more →From Elizabeth Kelly: An important development – the Los Angeles Unified School District unanimously passes a resolution calling for repeal of Section 704 of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 that preempts states and local governments from taking environmental (i.e. human health) effects into account when denying a permit to site a FCC licensed wireless
Read more →From Powerwatch: In an unprecedented move, the French Government today announced their decision to take some strongly precautionary measures with regards to mobile telecommunications technology. From an outright ban of mobile phones in primary schools, to a requirement on operators to provide “stripped” down handsets only capable of texting or without a loudspeaker, this is
Read more →I few subscribers to this list have let me know that the web link to the Portland City Council resolution doesn’t work. Libby Kelley indicates that it has been verified and she has provided the text below. There is also the link to the video of the council meeting in which the resolution was approved.
Read more →From Elizabeth Kelly: Dear Colleagues, Watch this video link to see the discussion and affirmative vote by the Portland City Council on a resolution that offers some health protection to neighborhoods from antennas. The City Council asks the FCC to look into health concerns. The video link is below. This vote is an outcome of
Read more →From Powerwatch: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20090518_parkin_school_wifi.asp Philip Parkin, general secretary of “Voice: the union for education professionals”, has spoken out in a comprehensive interview covering a number of controversial areas of the existing education system. The first four questions were based on the proliferation of WiFi in UK primary and secondary schools and whether the rollout is appropriate
Read more →Doing the rounds on EMF internet sites at the moment is an Associated Press release of May 7. Note however that it is from 2007 and so is not new news. Here is the press release as written in the International Journal of Health Services, Volume 37, Number 4, Pages 783″”785, 2007. Also see related
Read more →Comments on last message by Gerald Goldberg: Don Given the nature of the exposure, there will not be a gradual increase but one would expect to see the equivalent of a mushrooming of the incidence of the illness after a lag period of say 5 to 7 years. The incidence will be flat and then
Read more →Recently on Australian TV several prominent neurosurgeons expressed their concerns over the possible connection between their patient’s use of cell phones and brain cancers. An increase in the number of young people coming in with aggressive brain tumours was also briefly mentioned. Now we read from the UK that childhood brain cancers have overtaken childhood
Read more →From Christiane Tourtet: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Connecticut Governor proclaims May 2009 as Electromagnetic Sensitivity (EMS) Awareness Month. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/102308 [See below] The proclamation was obtained by the hard work of CHRISTIANE TOURTET B.A. Founder/President of International MCS/EMS Awareness http://www.nettally.com/prusty/mcs.htm The direct link to the EMS proclamation is as follows: http://www.nettally.com/prusty/JREMS2009.pdf Please circulate the annoncement worldwide. Thank you,
Read more →From Microwave News: The stalemate over Interphone is coming to an end. A project of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on the possible links between mobile phones and tumors, Interphone has been bogged down for over three years while its members feuded over how to interpret their results. Now, Microwave News has
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