Latest ORSAA paper: Comment on “5G mobile networks and health-a state-of-the-science review of the research into low-level RF fields above 6 GHz” by Karipidis et al.
This paper is open access, so that you can download it from the link below….SNIP
Read more →Research review by expert committee (BERENIS) convened by Swiss government concludes that exposure to a “low dose” of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields may cause “severe health effects” in the young and elderly and in people with immune deficiencies or diseases
Meike Mevissen, David Schürmann: Is there evidence for oxidative stress caused by electromagnetic fields? A summary of relevant observations in experimental animal and cell experiments related to health effects in the last ten years. BERENIS – The Swiss expert group on electromagnetic fields and non-ionising radiation Newsletter – Special Issue January 2021…SNIP
Read more →Notice from Microwave News: Updates from NTP, Japan, Korea & WHOAn international briefing on RF health research, known as GLORE 2020, was held online, November 9-12, featuring updates on the second phase of the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) project and the Japanese-Korean partial repeat. The WHO presented a status report on ten ongoing systematic reviews of RF health effects. Government and industry representatives from Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and the U.S. participated, as did an assortment of academics. The public and the press were not invited. Everything about GLORE 2020 is being kept secret. Microwave News has the story. We have the presentations of the NTP and WHO….SNIP
Read more →Excerpt from Victor Leach’s FDA analysis: Comment on the FDA 2020 Report‘ Review of Published Literature between 2008 and 2018 of Relevance to Radiofrequency Radiation and Cancer’ by Victor Leach ORSAA – Oceania Radiofrequency Scientific Advisory Association. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of many consumer products, drugs, vaccines, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation etc. They have a responsibility to protect consumers from biotoxins, and hence this FDA review of wireless radiation.As outlined below I believe this report is inadequate and biased in favour of industry. The following revelations that emerged from my analysis of this report in detail will explain why I have come to this conclusion….SNIP
Read more →From Microwave News:Non-Thermal Effects Hang in the Balance: Repacholi’s Legacy of Industry Cronyism……After eight years of work, the World Health Organization (WHO) is reopening its review of the health effects of RF radiation for a summary report intended to serve as a benchmark for its more than 150 member countries. The move might suggest that the WHO EMF/RF program is poised to reassess its long-held policy of rejecting non-thermal effects, and to loosen its deep ties to ICNIRP, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation with its heat-only dogma.The reputation of both organizations has never recovered from the rampant industry cronyism of Mike Repacholi, who created them in the 1990s. A close look at the WHO radiation program and its approach to this new review show that not much has changed in Geneva. In other words: Don’t count ICNIRP out just yet….SNIP
Read more →Excerpt
Critique of the ICNIRP Note of September 4, 2018 Regarding
Recent Animal Carcinogenesis Studies
Ronald L. Melnick PHD
Senior Scientist (retired), National Toxicology Program, NIEHS, NIH
September 12, 2018
Excerpt:
The International Commission of Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP, 2018) recently
issued a report (dated September 4, 2018) that contains numerous false and misleading
statements, particularly those about the toxicology and carcinogenesis studies on cell phone
radiofrequency radiation by the US National Toxicology Program (NTP). This flawed analysis by
ICNIRP served as the basis for ICNIRP to support their conclusion that existing radiofrequency
exposure guidelines do not need to be revised despite new evidence showing that exposure to
cell phone radiofrequency radiation (RFR) causes cancers in experimental animals….SNIP
From Lennart Hardell’s blog:
Has the WHO EMF Project been hijacked by ICNIRP?
Recently the following appeal has been posted at http://olgasheean.com/who-emf/ .
Sign this VOTE of NO CONFIDENCE in WHO’s EMF Project ….SNIP
[Commentary from Lennart Hardell and Michael Carlberg]
IARC as part of WHO evaluated radiofrequency (RF) radiation in May 2011 and concluded it to be a possible human carcinogen, Group 2B. However, in a fact sheet issued by WHO in June 2011 shortly after the IARC decision it was stated that ‘To date, no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use’.
WHO has still not acknowledged health risks form RF radiation: ‘No major public health risks have emerged from several decades of EMF research, but uncertainties remain’.
WHO plans to publish in 2017 an Environmental Health Criteria Monograph on RF radiation. It has been open for comments and parts of our letter to WHO is shown below: SNIP
Read more →Excerpt
Report of the Standing Committee on Health
HESA 2015 Recommendations on Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation and the Health of Canadians
On Tuesday June 9th, 2015 the Standing Committee on Health, whose mandate is to study and report on all matters relating to the mandate, management, and operation of Health Canada, unanimously adopted the final report into their study of Health Canada’s Safety Code 6. During three full days of hearings spread over two months, the ten MP member panel heard from both sides of the issue including leading scientists and doctors from around the world, Health Canada and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. (Full testimony and recaps can be found further down on this page)
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NOTE: David Mercer, the author of this paper was my supervisor at Wollongong University for my thesis The Procrustean Approach.This is well worth a read!
Don
The WHO EMF Project: Legitimating the Imaginary of Global Harmonization of EMF Safety Standards
DAVID MERCER
UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2 (2016), 88-105
Abstract (excerpt)
An important topic for studies of STS and globalization are the ways “global” institutions create
and attempt to implement health guidelines and safety standards to address risks associated with
new technologies. In the following discussion this topic is examined through a case study of the
activities of the World Health Organization’s Electric and Magnetic Field Project (WHO EMF
Project). EMF exposures are associated with telecommunications and electrical infrastructure,
most notably high voltage power-lines, radio and cell towers and the use of mobile telephones.
The controversy over setting international safety standards and health guidelines has simmered
for a number of decades. The mainstream “regulatory science” position has been that it is
unlikely EMF’s constitute a significant health risk and therefore minimal regulatory intervention
or significant precautionary considerations are required. A small but persistent stream of
scientific studies nevertheless have continued to raise significant health concerns and have led to
calls for regulators to build stronger precautionary approaches into EMF standards and
guidelines. SNIP
For some months the International EMF Alliance (IEMFA) has been examining the activities of the SCENIHR working group on Potential health effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields. This supposedly expert group has given the all-clear to telecommunications technology. What stands out with SCENIHR’s risk assessment process is a striking lack of pluralism and transparency. The analysis by a number of IEMFA members has found that SCENIHR’d expert opinion is strongly biased towards corporate, military and economic interests with a strategic need for wireless techniques.- Or as I would put it, SCENIHR follows a classic Procrustean Approach.
Following are links to IEMFA’s assessment of the SCENIHR spin.
SNIP
From Dariusz Leszczynski’s blog, Between a Rock and a Hard Place:
Excerpt
ARPANSA Report: No epiphany, just déj vu, all over again
Gallery
Posted on April 14, 2014
From time to time are published new reports, reviewing scientific evidence on possible health risks of cell phone and cell-phone-like radiation. Reading them, I do not experience epiphany feeling but, often, I experience déj vu feeling. I often have the feeling that the authors of new reports use extensively texts and opinions of earlier reports. It means that instead of duly reviewing also older original studies they rely on the opinions of others.
This is not a good development. Reading older original studies and evaluating them in the context of new original studies, it may together bring this very welcome feeling of epiphany. Instead, authors of new review reports bring us, readers, often the feeling of déj vu.
The just published ARPANSA report is no exception. No epiphany, just déj vu.
SNIP
Read more →From the EMR Policy Institute, http://www.EMRPolicy.org
For Distribution –
March 29, 2013 – FCC Releases the first report and order, further notice of proposed rulemaking, and notice of inquiry adopted March 27 and released today in ET dockets 13-84 and 03-137 found at:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-13-39A1.pdf
From Louis Slesin at Microwave News:
Late today, the FCC issued a package of rules and information requests
related to RF health and safety. The document is long and complex.
Learn more about it in our latest Short Take:
http://microwavenews.com/short-takes-archive/fcc-updating-rfrules
From Paul Kirby at TR Daily:
FCC RELEASES LONG-AWAITED
ITEM ON RF EXPOSURE STANDARDS
The FCC this afternoon released its long-awaited item opening a proceeding to explore whether it should modify its radio frequency exposure standards. The review will be the first time the FCC has considered whether to reexamine its RF standards since they were adopted in 1996.
SNIP
Read more →From the blog “Between A Rock And A Hard Place by Dariusz Leszczynski: Posted on September 14, 2012 On Wednesday, September 12, 2012, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health published a report: “Low-level radiofrequency electromagnetic fields “” an assessment of health risks and evaluation of regulatory practice” (full report; English summary). The 204-pages long report
Read more →Anders Ahlbom, former consultant to the tobacco industry and a director of Gunnar Ahlbom AB, a telecom PR firm specializing in environmental and energy regulations (which resulted in Ahlbom being kicked off the IARC panel for this huge and undeclared conflict of interest) -Also see this link- is lead author of a new report that
Read more →From the International EMF Alliance: Professor Yury Grigoriev calls for order and the world needs to listen: “Man conquered the Black Plague, but he has created new problems – EMF pollution” The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection has agreed to provide a detailed report for the world containing clear information on the most
Read more →Commentary from Dariusz Leszczynski: Excerpt: MELBOURNE, Australia, August 9, 2012–In 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration asked the US National Academies of Science to organize a workshop: ‘Identification of Research Needs Relating to Potential Biological or Adverse Health Effects of Wireless Communication’. Presentations at the workshop were invited from leading US and international scientists.
Read more →A paper that claims to objectively evaluate the basis for the Russian RF standard has just been published in Bioelectromagnetics online. Titled, Scientific Basis for the Soviet and Russian Radiofrequency Standards for the General Public, the authors are Michael Repacholi, Yuri Grigoriev, Jochen Buschmann, and Claudio Pioli. Abstract here I find it interesting that the
Read more →From the Blog, Between A Rock and a Hard Place by Dariusz Leszczynski: A new review has been accepted by journal PROTEOMICS. Its uncorrected proof is already available on accepted articles site of PROTEOMICS. The corrected final version of the article will be published shortly. From the abstract: “”The World Health Organization”s and Radiation and
Read more →Previously if you wanted to study the US IEEE C95.1 RF standard you had to pay for the privilege. Now, thanks to the kind sponsorship of the United States Navy, United States Air Force, and United States Army, it is now available as a free download. With wider availability hopefully there will be more of
Read more →Study Tracks Australian Climate Denial Echo Chamber Back to Think Tank Graham Readfearn 24 January 2012 Excerpt: EVER heard the one about climate scientists being a bunch of rent-seekers just out to chase taxpayers money, or the one where climate change scientists are just part of an elite left-wing conspiracy out to trample on the
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