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"..In this respect, any statement by industry or official sources that claims (or suggests) that:
(a) There is no evidence of ill-health effects from masts; or
(b) The overwhelming evidence is that masts do not cause ill-health effects;
is completely and blatantly untrue."
Dr Grahame Blackwell
Prof. Guido Zimmer, Arzt u. Biochemiker, Berater der Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt am Main)
"Was unser aller Gesundheit belastet und bedroht, kann unmöglich dem Gemeinwohl dienen"
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 neu hinzu | 60 Krebscluster | 60 Krebscluster2,old | 60 Krebscluster3,old | 60 Krebscluster4,old | 60 Krebscluster5,old | 60 Krebscluster6,old | 60 Krebscluster7,old | 60 Krebscluster8,old | 60 Krebscluster9,old | 60 Krebscluster10,old | 60 Krebscluster11,old | 60 Krebscluster12,old | Umrechner | Grenzwerte | suchen | Interphone | Kinder, Schule und Mobilfunk | Masuren lieben ohne es zu besitzen | mails an WHO | Protestbriefe | prywatnie do WHO | persönlich an WHO | one's own opinion to WHO | Direkte Demokratie | Umfrage Direkte Demokratie für das Volk? | Die Liste Slupsk mit 60 Toten und mit 53 Erkrankten in der Nähe des Mobilfunkturms in Stolp / Polen | 4 mal höhere Sterberate im Umkreis um den Mobilfunkturm in Stolp | Zahl Hodenkrebserkrankter steigt | Handys können die Fruchtbarkeit von Männern um 30% reduzieren | Heat Shock Proteins (HSP) EN | Badania Reflex przyniosly bardzo solidne wyniki (PL) | Interesting details about the Interphone study | Das Schlimmste an der derzeitigen Mobilfunktechnologie | Strahlenschutz beruht auf unbewiesenen Annahmen | Die Unfähigkeit des TÜV | Structural and kinetic effects of mobile phone microwaves on acetylcholinesterase activity | Der elektrosensible Mensch | Time-slot modulated emf of wireless communication systems: Is there a health risk for man? | Sperm damage claims over phone radiation | Aby ludzie byli zdrowi | SCANDAL: WHO denied Prof. Olle Johansson the democratic right to participate in a workshop | Permanent mutations in fruit flies by cell phone radiation | Experts confirm effects of mobile telephone radiation | The report of the Jülich Institute has been ordered and financed by T-Mobile | Keep mobile phone calls short | Two single blind experiences | Krebserkrankungen in Wernstein | Dokumentierte Gesundheitsschäden unter dem Einfluss hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Felder | Who - Repacholi Advice To Governments / WHO-Repacholi Ratschläge für Regierungen | Time To Stop the WHO Charade | Yess! | show us the money, Mike | Your position please | from Mike Repacholi | Who - Repacholi update | WHO says that phones are dangerous to children | Mobile phone cancer link rejected | Mobile phone use and risk of acoustic neuroma: results of the Interphone case-control study in five North European countries | Criticism on former Interphone Study | Report on acoustic-neuroma is worthless | Spanien, Villaverde del Río 43 Tote in der Nähe von Sevilla | death of 43 people from electromagnetic radiation WHO, the following petition to your information and relief | A new member/director on the WHO board has been appointed | WHO Welcomes Electric Utility Industry To Key EMF Meeting, Bars the Press
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 Persons with impairments are NOT "a medical condition"
(From Olle Johansson)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2005
Dear All,
In the recent Press Statement (see below) from the Health Protection Agency
(HPA) of England and Wales, a serious mistake can be found (see below at [***]).
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12 September 2005
Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity
Recent newspaper articles about a forthcoming report from the Health Protection Agency are speculative, and various assertions about its contents are inaccurate. (Sunday Times, 11 Sept 2005; Daily Mail, 12 September 2005).
The report will be a scientific review of the topic of electrosensitivity with a public health perspective. It will not be a definitive statement of policy from the Board of the Health Protection Agency. The Board of the Agency is not in a position to make a decision on whether electrosensitivity is a "medical condition" or not. This is for the medical profession to decide on an international basis.
The report will be published next month with a press release summarising its contents. This will be available to news media under embargo. http://www.hpa.org.uk/hpa/news/articles/press_releases/2005/050912_electrosensitivity.htm
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[***] In Sweden, under various international and national handicap laws and regulations - such as the UN 22 Standard Rules and the Swedish action plan for persons with impairments (prop. 1999/2000:79 "Den nationella handlingplanen för handikappolitiken - Från patient till medborgare"), the Swedish Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS-lagen), the Swedish Social Services Act (Socialtjänstlagen), and the Human Rights Act of the EU - or elsewhere in the world among all UN nations, impairments are NOT "for the medical profession to decide on an international basis". Persons with impairments are NOT "a medical condition". This is very important to realize and understand.
Best regards
Olle Johansson
olle.johanssonbyki.se
(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden)
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HPA Press Statement on the HPA Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity
(From Alasdair Philips)
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005
Message With regard to the below, According to the Israeli news they will write a full list of symptoms in the report, and the medical community will have to study this more in order to find drugs. Just today I read that 40 companies are trying to find the magic bullets for memmory loss. They want to create "a better brain", they don't care that cell phones can create "a worse brain". It's in the new issue of "popular science" Sep. 2005, there are pills for concentration, sleep, cognitive performance etc
From: Press Office
Sent: 12 September 2005 15:25
HPA Press Statement on the HPA Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity
Dear all,
Advance media coverage of the forthcoming HPA RPD Report on electrosensitivity in various newspapers over the weekend and today has lead to considerable follow-on media interest. As such, we felt it beneficial to issue a holding press statement. This will appear on the HPA website shortly (http://hpa.org.uk). The RPD Report is scheduled for publication at the beginning of October.
Press Office
Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards
Health Protection Agency
Chilton, Didcot
Oxfordshire, OX11 0RQ
Tel: (01235) 822744/5
Fax: (01235) 822746
Email: pressoffice@hpa-rp.org.uk
Website: http://hpa.org.uk/radiation
Text of HPA Press Statement follows:
(12 September 2005)
Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity
Recent newspaper articles about a forthcoming report from the Health Protection Agency are speculative, and various assertions about its contents are inaccurate. (Sunday Times, 11 Sept 2005; Daily Mail, 12 September 2005).
The report will be a scientific review of the topic of electrosensitivity with a public health perspective. It will not be a definitive statement of policy from the Board of the Health Protection Agency. The Board of the Agency is not in a position to make a decision on whether electrosensitivity is a "medical condition" or not. This is for the medical profession to decide on an international basis.
The report will be published next month with a press release summarising its contents. This will be available to news media under embargo.
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Do radiofrequency energy fields cause cancer?
27 Sep 2005, By Dr. Ralph Moss
(from Iris Atzmon)
- Here at the moss reports
- Part one
- Effects on Melatonin
- Part 2:
- What the Science Shows
- Part 3: Some Studies Find a Link
- What To Do
- REFERENCES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dr. Ralph Moss is usually very focused on cancer treatments, so that's an important move. He is read widely.
 Here at the moss reports
This week I begin a three-part series concerning the safety of devices such as cell phones that emit radiofrequency energy fields. Do these energy fields cause or predispose to the development of cancer? Controversy still swirls around the issue. While some researchers have concluded that the risk is minimal, others are less sanguine. A weak but statistically significant link has been established between residential exposure to energy emissions from nearby power lines and the development of a small percentage of childhood leukemias, for example (Greenland 2000; Ahlbom 2000). Researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields are capable of disrupting physiological processes at the cellular level, leading, among other things, to the accumulation of free radicals within the cell, and have proposed that such disturbances may in turn create conditions in which malignant change can more easily take place.
Yet agencies such as the American Cancer Society continue to issue blanket reassurances that cell phones, microwave ovens, power lines and other radiofrequency energy-emitting devices are safe, and do not contribute to the incidence of cancer.
What are we to make of these contradictory pronouncements? This is not the only sphere in which the research suggests cause for concern while the agencies charged with protecting the publicís safety insist that there is nothing to worry about. While research is still in progress the debate should remain open, yet all too often the attitude of these agencies can suggest at best a willful complacency, and at worst a stubborn and paternalistic refusal to acknowledge even the need for a continued dialog on the subject.
DO RADIOFREQUENCY ENERGY FIELDS CAUSE CANCER?
Part one
Do devices such as cell or mobile phones, that emit radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RFEMF), cause cancer? According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), this is just another widespread "cancer myth" that is befuddling the minds of the American public. A recent ACS "cancer literacy" poll found that 30 percent of the general public agrees with the proposition that electronic devices, like cell phones, can cause cancer in people who use them.
Ted Gansler, MD, MBA, Director of Medical Content, American Cancer Society, blames the persistence of this belief on litigious lawyers and the sensationalist media. "Alarming front-page coverage," he says, is primarily to blame. The reality, says Dr. Gansler, is that although "a few studies have suggested a link with certain rare types of brain tumors the consensus among well-designed population studies is that there is no consistent association between cell phone use and brain cancer" (Gansler 2005).
"What has been proven," Dr. Gansler adds, "is that using a cell phone while driving increases the risk of having a car accident. So, keeping your hands free and your eyes on the road is a more significant issue for people who use cell phones" (Gansler 2005b) - as if one potential danger canceled out the other!
Furthermore, according to Dr. Gansler, "considerable research has also found no clear association between any other electronic consumer products and cancer."
Dr. Gansler points out that while ionizing radiation such as gamma rays and X-rays can increase cancer risk by causing changes to DNA in cells of the body, low frequency, non-ionizing radiation [such as that emitted by cell phones, ed.] does not cause these DNA changes.
This statement, as far as it goes, is true. However, direct damage to the DNA is not the only way in which harm could be done. Dr. Gansler ignores the possibility that exposure to radiofrequency energy might bring about damage indirectly, through subtle physiological effects on cellular functions. It has been established, for example, that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields can induce a wide variety of physiological changes in cell membranes, signaling pathways, cell growth cycle regulation, and other metabolic processes within the cell.
It has also been suggested that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields may cause what are called 'epigeneticí changes. Epigenetic changes are minute alterations in gene expression, which are brought about by environmental influences. Such alterations in the settings of individual genes can have far-reaching results ñ as, for example, when a protective gene is deactivated, or a dormant gene switched on. Epigenetic changes, in other words, even though they do not involve direct damage to the DNA, can cause radical alterations in gene expression and cellular functions that can last a lifetime, and that may result in a significantly increased risk of an individual developing cancer and other diseases.
Effects on Melatonin
Furthermore, radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure may possibly exert a disruptive effect on the bodyís hormonal systems, with wide-ranging consequences. As researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have shown, RFEMF is capable of suppressing pineal gland production of the hormone, melatonin. Melatonin may exert a protective effect against cancer, and depressed melatonin levels may in turn predispose towards the development of cancer (Davis 2001).
Other subtle changes in metabolic norms may also be induced by radiofrequency emissions. This summer, Turkish scientists at Suleyman Demirel University published a paper showing that exposure to 900 MHz electrical fields (the kind typically emitted by cellular telephones) suppresses production of TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) and thyroid hormones in rats (Koyu 2005).
They have also shown that long term RFEMF exposure can lead to chronically increased levels of free radicals, which, coupled with a concomitant decrease in key antioxidant systems in the brain, can lead to a heightened risk of brain cancer. Interestingly, these researchers found that the increased risk of brain cancer could be substantially offset by administration of the dietary supplement, gingko biloba (Ilhan 2004).
A weak but consistent association between exposure to RFEMF and the development of childhood leukemia has been demonstrated. In 1999, the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) concluded that although the evidence was not strong, there were still reasons for caution. The NIEHS rationale, according to its own website, was that "no individual epidemiological study provided convincing evidence linking magnetic field exposure with childhood leukemia, but the overall pattern of results for some methods of measuring exposure suggested a weak association between increasing exposure to EMF and increasing risk of childhood leukemia. The small number of cases in these studies made it impossible to firmly demonstrate this association. However, the fact that similar results had been observed in studies of different populations using a variety of study designs supported this observation."
Clearly therefore, even though the association between RFEMF and disease is still very much under investigation, there are definite grounds for concern.
http://cancerdecisions.com/091105_page.html
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Part 2:
Last week we spoke about the possible link between radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RFEMF), such as are emitted by cell/mobile phones, and cancer. We continue the discussion this week.
Dr. Ted Gansler, with the full authority of the American Cancer Society (ACS) behind him, confidently assures us that people who worry that there may be an association between cell phone use and cancer are victims of an urban myth. Why, then, does Dr. Gansler feel the need to provide a website address for the Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), which "offers advice to people concerned about their risk." He continues: "Experts from the CDRH explain practical ways to minimize exposure to radio frequency radiation while using a cell phone. Also, thereís the option of using digital rather than analog telephones."
I find this rather strange. If cell phones and other electronic devices are as innocuous as Dr. Gansler asserts then why does he encourage people to learn how to minimize their risk? Dr. Gansler and his ACS colleagues appear to be unaware that the FDAís stated position is that "[i]t is generally agreed that further research is needed to determine what effects actually occur [from RFEMF exposure, ed.] and whether they are dangerous to people" (FDA 2002).
What the Science Shows
There are hundreds of published articles on the subject of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and the possible association with diseases including cancer. Scientists in this field primarily must rely on laboratory and epidemiological data (i.e., population-based studies), but these often reach ambiguous or contradictory conclusions. For instance, a recent review by scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Madison, was generally dismissive of a causal link between RFEMF and cancer, calling evidence for such a link "weak."
However, while the authors felt that a straightforward cause and effect link remained unproven, the article concluded: "...the existing epidemiology is limited and the possibility of epigenetic effects has not been thoroughly evaluated, so that additional research in those areas will be required for a more thorough assessment of the possibility of a causal connection between cancer and the RF energy from mobile telecommunications" (Moulder 2005).
The key word in my opinion is "limited." The bottom line is this: almost all reputable researchers in this area concede that it is really not yet definitively known whether or not radiofrequency electromagnetic fields do increase the risk of cancer. Some people take this as confirmation of their view that such devices are safe. But one would think that while the issue is still very much under investigation it would be wisest for the ACS not to brand concern about RFEMF prematurely as just another "cancer myth." It seems to me to be arrogant to declare the debate closed while the near unanimous opinion in the scientific world is that the issue is still far from settled.
Part 3:
Some Studies Find a Link
Many scientists dismiss the possibility that RFEMFs can cause cancer. But a minority disagrees. Briefly, here are just three of the current and recent studies that have indicated a link between radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and malignancy.
In the eyes of some researchers, in fact, "there is a growing amount of evidence about the harmful effects of EMFs [electromagnetic fields, ed.] on the human body, the most dangerous of which is the possible carcinogenic effect." So wrote Israeli scientists in reviewing the overall field in the spring of 2005 (Beniashvili 2005).
Drs. Leeka I. Kheifets and C. Chantal Matkin, of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, California agree with many others that "most of the epidemiologic data do not provide strong support for an association between EMF and breast cancer." However they also state that because of the limited statistical power and the possibility of bias in much of the existing data, "it is not possible to rule out a relationship between EMF and breast cancer" (Kheifets 1999).
Significantly, EPRI is generally a pro-industry group, which includes almost 1,000 energy producers as members. As of 2001, 27 of its 30-member Board of Directors represented utility companies. Some people turn up their noses at such overtly partisan institutions. But my feeling is that pro-industry researchers would on the whole be less likely than more independent scientists to warn of the potential risks of EMF exposure, so the fact that these researchers acknowledge the possibility of a breast cancer/EMF link is very significant.
Again, I want to emphasize that most research in this field concludes that electromagnetic field exposure, at least that emanating from power lines, is harmless. Yet even among this body of literature there are a few disturbing trends in some of the data. For example, in a meta-analysis performed at the University of Cologne, Germany, Prof. Thomas C. Erren found a 12 percent increased risk of cancer in women and a 37 percent increase in men that seemed attributable to EMF exposure. Yet, like most scientists in the field, he adds a note of caution, noting "probable misclassification of exposure and the possible misclassification of the disease itself."(Erren 2001)
Scandinavian researchers have identified an increased risk for acoustic neuroma (i.e., a benign tumor of the eighth cranial nerve) in cell phone users, and a slightly increased risk of malignant brain tumors such as astrocytoma and meningioma on the same side of the brain as the cell phone was habitually held. However, the authors of this latter study have acknowledged some methodological concerns, and further investigations are planned in order to determine whether such an association can be definitively established with statistical significance (Hardell 2004 and 2005).
Most recently, the aforementioned Dr. Djemal Beniashvili and other scientists at the Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel postulated a link between exposure to power frequency fields and breast cancer in elderly women. They made an extensive study of medical records extending over a period of 26 years, involving the analysis of over 200,000 biopsy and surgery samples. They then compared the breast cancer rates in elderly women from an earlier period (1978-1990) to a more recent period (1991-2003), which has been characterized by a much more extensive use of personal computers (more than 3 hours a day), mobile/cell telephones, television sets, air conditioners and other household electrical appliances.
Among the elderly women who developed breast cancer in the first time frame, 19.5 percent were regularly exposed to power frequency fields. But in the more modern period 51.1 percent were so exposed, mainly through the use of personal computers. The authors conclude: "There was a statistically significant influence of EMF [electromagnetic fields, ed.] on the formation of all observed epithelial mammary tumors in Group II." This represented a more than two-fold increase, which was considered highly significant (Beniashvili 2005).
Of course, many other environmental factors have changed since the period 1978-1990, but increased environmental exposure to power frequency fields is among the more conspicuous changes to have taken place. And while there is a body of evidence that contradicts the findings of Dr. Beniashvili and his colleagues, again, there are many aspects of this question that remain to be clarified. The issue is far from conclusively settled.
It is therefore highly inappropriate for the ACS to deride the misgivings of the public on the question of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and their possible association with cancer. I have seen the credentials and motivation of those who raise doubts about the safety of RFEMF questioned. However, the researchers who have raised doubts about the safety of RFEMFs are neither avaricious lawyers nor sensation-seeking journalists, but serious scientists, trying to do an important job in a rational, dispassionate way. For example, the senior author of this Israeli paper, Dr. Itzhak Zusman, is himself the author of 139 PubMed-listed articles, 80 of which relate to cancer. S. Ozen, who coauthored the paper on EMFs and thyroid function, is similarly well established, with 212 PubMed-listed papers to his credit.
What To Do
While it is far from clear that there is a cause and effect relationship between cell phones (or RFEMF in general) and cancer, too little is known about the actual effects to dismiss the possibility out of hand, the way the ACS does. Caution would therefore be advised. History is filled with examples of "perfectly safe" environmental factors that later turned out to be harmful, if not disastrous. As a child, I badgered my mother to let me have my feet fluoroscoped in the local shoe store. A cautious lady, she limited my exposure to a single occasion during which I got a brief and eerie glimpse of the bones in my feet. These machines were later banned after some were found to be pumping out as much as 116 roentgens of radiation - a huge dose for a trivial purpose.
As a young man I also listened to advertisements touting the health benefits of tobacco by TV personality Arthur "Buy 'Em By the Carton" Godfrey, among many others. Even the American Medical Association (AMA) accepted tobacco advertising in its journals, with such statements as, "They won't harm anybody. They will prove enjoyable." Arthur Godfrey himself later died of emphysema, a disease most commonly caused by smoking.
And even though I am generally cautious when it comes to prescription medications, I succumbed to the blandishments of the pharmaceutical companies and took Vioxx for a backache ñ and even prevailed upon a naturopathic physician friend to do the same. Everyone now knows that Vioxx turned out to greatly increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Click on or go the the following address for my earlier newsletter on Vioxx:
http://cancerdecisions.com/010905.html
However, one is never too old to learn caution. Thus, while I am writing this newsletter on a laptop computer that is literally on my knee, I have placed between it and my body a thick sheet of lead from the hardware store, encased in a comfortable flannel sleeve. I have even bent the front of the shield into a wide lip, because tests with a hand-held Gaussmeter tell me that much of the electromagnetic radiation leaks from the front of the machine, although the intensity of the reading drops off dramatically within a few inches from the screen. In general, I try to reduce all unnecessary exposures to electromagnetic fields, especially while I am sleeping, by switching off the electric blanket and keeping electric appliances such as radios, clocks, etc., away from my bed.
I do own and sometimes use a cell phone, but limit my exposure to its electromagnetic fields. I generally try to use it in speakerphone mode and limit the length of conversations as much as possible. And I take supplemental antioxidants with the intention of reducing free radical damage.
In this, as in other matters, I think the Precautionary Principle applies. If the consequences of an action concerning the use of technology are unknown, but are possibly highly negative, then it is better to limit exposure rather than risk the uncertain, but possibly very negative, consequences.
In my opinion, the ACS has insulted the thinking public and done a disservice to honest scientists who are trying to study the possible link of EMF exposure and cancer. The issue is hugely important. Cell/mobile phone use has doubled since 2000, and at present there are 1.5 billion subscribers worldwide (Garfield 2004).
By attaching derogatory labels to those who are on the opposite side of the debate from themselves, the researchers at ACS will no doubt please the $112 billion cell phone industry. But this does not advance public understanding. It merely stigmatizes as irrational all those who oppose unrestricted technological change and thereby hampers a necessary scientific and public dialogue.
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Ahlbom A, Day N, Feychting M et al. A pooled analysis of magnetic fields and childhood leukemia. Br J Cancer. 2000;83:692-8
Beniashvili D, Avinoach'm I, Baasov D, et al. The role of household electromagnetic fields in the development of mammary tumors in women: clinical case-record observations. Med Sci Monit. 2005;11:CR10-3.
Davis S, Kaune WT, Mirick DK, et al. Residential magnetic fields, light-at-night, and nocturnal urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin concentration in women. Am J Epidemiol. 2001;154:591-600.
Erren TC. A meta-analysis of epidemiological studies of electric and magnetic fields and breast cancer in women and men. Bioelectromagnetics, 2001;5:105ñ19.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA). What biological effects can be caused by RF energy? Last updated April 3, 2002. Retrieved July 30, 2005 from:
http://fda.gov/cellphones/rf-energy.html#2
Gansler T, Henley SJ, Stein K, et al. Sociodemographic determinants of cancer treatment health literacy. Cancer. 2005;104:653-60.
Gansler, T. Do cell phones cause cancer? American Cancer Society website, 2005b. Retrieved from: http://cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_11_1_Do_Cell_Phones_Cause_Cancer.asp
Garfield, Larry. Mobile phone usage doubles since 2000, but growth to slow. Infosync World News Centre, Dec. 15, 2004. Retrieved from: http://infosyncworld.com/news/n/5636.html
Greenland S, Sheppard AR, Kaune WT, et al. A pooled analysis of magnetic fields, wire codes, and childhood leukemia. Childhood Leukemia-EMF Study Group. Epidemiology. 2000;11:624-34
Hardell L, Mild KH, Carlberg M, et al. Cellular and cordless telephone use and the association with brain tumors in different age groups. Arch Environ Health. 2004;59(3):132-7
Hardell L, Carlberg M, Mild KH. Case-control study of the association between the use of cellular and cordless telephones and malignant brain tumors diagnosed during 2000-2003. Environ Res. 2005 Jul 12
Ilhan A, Gurel A, Arcutcu F, et al. Ginkgo biloba prevents mobile phone-induced oxidative stress in rat brain. Clin Chim Acta. 2004;340:153-62.
Kheifets LI, Matkin CC. Industrialization, electromagnetic fields and breast cancer risk. Environ Health Perspect. 1999;107:145:154.
Koyu A, Cesur G, Ozguner F, et al. Effects of 900 MHz electromagnetic field on TSH and thyroid hormones in rats. Toxicol Lett. 2005;157:257-62.
McCurdy AL, Wijnberg L, Loomis D, et al. Exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields among working women and homemakers. Ann Occup Hyg. 2001;45:643-50.
Moulder JE, Foster KR, Erdreich LS, et al. Mobile phones, mobile phone base stations and cancer: a review. Int J Radiat Biol. 2005;8:189-203.
Scott A, Dana KM, Stevens RY: Residential magnetic fields and risk of breast cancer. Am J Epidemiol, 2002;155:446ñ54.
Information on EPRI retrieved July 30, 2005 from:
http://cspinet.org/integrity/nonprofits/electric_power_research_institute.html
Information on fluoroscopes retrieved July 31, 2005 from:
http://straightdope.com/classics/a2_414a.html
Information on American Medical Association and tobacco retrieved July 31, 2005 from:
http://thoracic.org/chapters/ california_adobe/TobaccoHx.pd
(NIEHS website: http://niehs.nih.gov/emfrapid/booklet/results.htm )
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to the following for reading and commenting on all or parts of this article:
D.S. Beniashvili, MD, of the Department of Pathology, E Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel; Scott Davis, PhD, MS, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington; and Professor John E. Moulder, PhD, Director of Radiation Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin.
umtsno: see The Moss report
17 Dec 2006, Hardell, Richter et al - at The Moss report
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A new study
10 Sep 2005
Dr Igor Y Belyaev who is one of the researchers of this study below, also participates in the WHO EMF project, but he clearly states that there are non- thermal effects, in contrast to the manager of the WHO project, and in this study one can read the criticism of the researchers on the ICNIRP standards that ignore effects below the standard.
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/7561/7561.pdf
Hopefully they will publish soon their study on 3G genetic effects
that was presented in two conferences (in Prague and Russia).
From: "Iris Atzmon" <atzmonh@bezeqint.net>
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My hypothesis on TETRA and esophagus cancer
In a book that documents the distribution and mortality of cancer from the geographical (geology and hydrology) perspective, I learnt that consistenly - esophagus cancer appears in areas that are deficient in calcium.
I didn't read the book with relation to the radiation, but it immediately rang a bell: TETRA and esophagus cancer in British policemen----> TETRA and calcium efflux ------> TETRA and esophagus cancer. Can the calcium efflux be the explanation to esophagus cancer that Bary Trower predicted several years ago among British policemen?
I wrote him asking him what he thinks about it, and this is what he wrote me: "I think you are correct in your hypotheses concerning calcium/ oesophagus. I think notes on calcium efflux appear in starwave.com... if you affect one part of a body- all others are involved"..
From: "Iris Atzmon" atzmonh@bezeqint.net
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 12:15:18 +0200
see more about -Tetra-
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From Dr John Walker
Abstract
There is now very self sustaining and well agreeing information over several countries:-
To answer question 1 Is there any effect of mobile telephone base station radiation on living beings e.g. human and animal health?
There are results of ill people in houses in beam patches (7 patches) so far tested (120 ill people by 2005) There is about 3 times the average rate of Cancer. in the beam patches.
Ill people in flats in mast beams in Midlands (600 ill people)
Ill people in a school near mast (75 ill pupils and teachers)
To answer question 2 How is the incidence of ill health related to the strength of the radiation?
In Spain Navarro & Oldfield 0.13 volts/metre for an Odds ratio of 39 for increased depressive tendency.
In UK Beam patches about 1,5 volts/metre outside correspond to about 0.5 volts/metre inside buildings
In Germany Bamberger <0.06 volts/metre give 30% illness, 0.06 -0.2 volts/metre gives 60% illness
These values are relatively close compared to ICNRP 41 volts/metre!
"An Unofficial View" of Health v Mobile phone Mast Non Ionizing Radiation September 2005
Introduction
Newspaper cuttings were collected a few years ago, of illness near mobile telephone base station masts around this country and some from Europe. The worst case was 4 cancers in 5 adjacent houses by an old mast; this seemed to be too much of a coincidence.[Evening Standard 20 February 2002] Most of the articles were followed up by a visit, to find the extent of the illnesses at each location.
A more scientific approach was needed.
It was found that three pole mast beams, 120 degrees apart, often hit the ground at a distance away from the mast equal to 10 times the height of the mast and it is here, at the area of highest field intensity, that the illness patches occur.
Question 1
Is there any effect of mobile telephone base station radiation on living beings e.g. human and animal health?
Human Data available
A HOUSES
(1) 7 patches of illness were found in the highest signal level of the radiation (non ionizing) near masts around the country. Approximate simulated average fields were used,. this is of the order of 1.5 Volts/metre.outdoors and corresponds to 0.5 Volts/metre indoors
1a) The number of ill people:-
1a1) in a single beam patch is proportional to the cumulative integrated dose of radiation received over the years e.g. 8 ill after 8 years, 21 ill after 13 years and
1a2) in a two beam crossing patch, 31 ill.after 11 years.
1b) The radius away from the mast of both beam patch and illness patch agrees well.
1c) The angular phase of the illness patch relates to the angular position of the poles of the mast e.g. 120 degrees or 240 degrees (maximum error so far only 12 degrees).
B) FLATS
600 people were found to be ill in flats which were at high field levels. Note: - in multistorey flats, each person’s rooms are all on the same side of the building, so the inhabitants cannot escape the radiation unless they sleep in the corridor!
C SCHOOLS
Surveys in schools
A survey in a Warwickshire school, close to a multi array mast 11 years old, showed the teachers to be twice as ill as the pupils (The teachers have more years at the school and therefore get a larger integrated cumulative dose of radiation) and the pupils to be twice as ill as the population in a West Midlands town with a merely 2 year old mast.
If the data answers Question 1 in the affirmative, then the next question is:
Question 2
How is the incidence of ill health related to the strength of the radiation?
The latest Bamberger study from Germany shows well (at 4 levels of radiation) the relation between the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection) Guidelines, the local Salzburg Guidelines and the levels for 60% illness at 0.06 – 0.2 volts/metre and 94% illness at 0.21 – 0.6 volts/metre in the 356 people studied
Note - the level in the beam patches in Question 1 is 1.5 volts per metre externally which is of the order of 0.5 volts/metre internally in houses. This agrees fairly well with the more detailed Bamberger study.
This also agrees well with the Oldfield Navarro results of 0.13 volts/metre for an Odds ratio of 39 for increased depressive tendency.
The remaining question is:-
Question 3
What are the mechanisms by which illness are caused?
If over time, radiation suppresses our nightly melatonin cycle, evolved by all vertebrae (humans and animals) etc over many millennia, then our immune system protection against cosmic rays is seriously compromised.
I have not yet found an old mast that has not got an illness patch. If you have any data which disagrees with the above, if there is any, I would be glad to receive it.
"An Unofficial View" of Official Views
About 1997, ICNIRP (International Commission for Non Ionizing Radiation Protection) took a very narrow view of the reasons for susceptibility of the bodies of living beings to Non Ionizing Radiation. They merely considered the heating effect and ignored the most important effects. They persuaded most governments and institutions with plausible arguments to their view. They did not know then what we know now. They had no feel that on this earth "we see through glass as but darkly".
It is easy to think that, although some of us can stand a few years of radiation without any obvious effects, that there is no effect. However this is really living in myth land and ignoring what is going on.
1) An Establishment statement
The balance of evidence to date suggests that exposures to RF radiation below NRPB and ICNRP guidelines do not cause adverse health effects to the general population
This is a non quantitative statement that has been static for several years. It is more political than scientific. It is a chameleon, depending on the population which is being considered.
A) If this is applied to the general population of UK then it is apparently True. But highly diluted results are being obtained due to averaging many people outside beam patches with a few people inside beam patches.
B) But if this is applied to the general population of a Beam Patch, then it is False. The illness applies to up to 50% of the people, with an illness density of about 3 times that of the surrounding area which is at a much lower radiated field level.
2) An Establishment view
There are so many masts about that there is sure to be some coincidences with random cancer clusters.
The data on the previous page shows that mast induced illness is very far from being random and is in fact extremely determinate.
Note - if mast induced illness is random, then it is out of control of the establishment and from an economic viewpoint, then maximum wealth should be generated by the expansion of the mobile telephone industry.
3) A Consensus view.
People feel they are safer if their views agree with the "general consensus" however it is possible on odd occasions that this view may be erroneous particularly when:-
A) A new situation occurs - much higher frequency, digital, squarer waves, as compared to the old lower frequency sinusoidal waves of broadcasting.
The establishment will pretend it is not a new situation.
B) And from my work so far, I feel that ICNIRP’s decision was extremely misleading, because they had not got the data then that we have now.
The establishment will attempt to defend the old consensus by calling new scientific data merely anecdotal and by destructively fastening on unimportant points and neglecting important points. Defence of an old consensus can be very unfair scientifically.
4) Paralysis of advancement of knowledge by cutting funding
Several scientists have said that there was no funding for key work.
1) At Universities students who wanted to do worthwhile work were dissuaded because it would be controversial (Universities depend on Government for their funding.).
2) This means that any real work must be done voluntarily by a retired scientist within the cost limits of the volunteer.
5) The Suppresion of anti policy statements has maintained the myth for several years.
6) Generalisations and logicality not rooted in actuality do not help health.
John Walker
Instrumentation
The Acousticom makes one aware of radiation, but it does to a certain extent indicate the source.However a digital frequency analyser is much more versatile and about one tenth of the cost of the old analogue versions. TheSpectran HF 6080 has a directional aerial and can detect amongst other things GSM 900, GSM1800, UMTS, Dect etc
It can be hand held and gives an Acousticom sound of the wave modulation and % of ICNIRP level as well as the spectra etc and two channel storage of signals.etc.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Subject: Latest Info from Dr John Walker
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New Italian study: Cell phone and brain function
from: "Sylvie" sylvie_ehs@yahoo.fr
Is the brain influenced by a phone call?
An EEG study of resting wakefulness
G. Curcioa, M. Ferrarab, F. Moronia, G. D’Inzeoc, M. Bertinia and L. De Gennaroa
a Department of Psychology, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, I-00185 Rome, Italy
b Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio, I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy
c Department of Electronic Engineering, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, I-00184 Rome, Italy
Received 17 March 2005; accepted 7 July 2005. Available online 15 August 2005.
Abstract
We recorded the resting electroencephalogram of 20 healthy subjects in order to investigate the effect of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure on EEG waking activity and its temporal development. The subjects were randomly assigned to two groups and exposed, in double-blind conditions, to a typical mobile phone signal (902.40 MHz, modulated at 217 Hz, with an average power of 0.25 W) before or during the EEG recording session. The results show that, under real exposure as compared to baseline and sham conditions, EEG spectral power was influenced in some bins of the alpha band. This effect was greater when the EMF was on during the EEG recording session than before it. The present data lend further support to the idea that pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic fields can affect normal brain functioning, also if no conclusions can be drawn about the possible health effects.
Keywords: GSM; EEG; Spectral analysis; Electromagnetic fields; Mobile phones; Resting wakefulness; Radio-frequency radiation
Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 06 49917508; fax: +39 06 4451667.
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Exposure assessment of ELF magnetic fields in urban environments in Extremadura (Spain)
From: "Sylvie" sylvie_ehs@yahoo.fr
http://www.terra.es/personal/kirke1/noti67/epdf.htm
Exposure assessment of ELF magnetic fields in urban
environments in Extremadura (Spain).
Paniagua JM, Jimenez A, Rufo M, Antolin A.
Departamento de Fisica, Escuela Politecnica,
Universidad de Extremadura, Caceres, Spain.
paniagua@unex.es
We present the results of a study of the extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic fields in urban environments of the Extremadura region (Spain). The study included a spectral analysis, an analysis of the temporal variation, and spot measurements in the streets of four cities. The spectral analysis showed that the main source of magnetic field exposure was that corresponding to the principal power frequency (50 Hz) and its third harmonic. The magnetic flux density measured at one point over 24 h presented rapid fluctuations in short time periods. Smoothing the time series eliminated these fluctuations, showing a temporal evolution associated with the differing levels of power consumption over the course of the day. The values of the spot measurements taken in the streets were all below the ICNIRP reference level, although 30% surpassed 0.2 microT, the value that some epidemiological studies take as the threshold above which there exist risks of effects that could be harmful to health.
The values found for the magnetic flux density in these urban settings were generally greater than values reported in the literature for residential areas, and similar to, although in some cases less than those in workplace environments.
Publication Types:
Evaluation Studies
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Case-Control Study on Cellular and Cordless Telephones and the Risk for Acoustic Neuroma or Meningioma in Patients Diagnosed 2000-2003
L. Hardell a, M. Carlberg b, K. H. Mild c, M. Eriksson d, C. Sundström e
a Department of Oncology, University Hospital, and Department of Natural Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
b Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden
c National Institute for Working Life, Umeå and Department of Natural Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
d Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
e Department of Pathology, Akademiska Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract
We performed a case-control study on the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk for brain tumors. We report the results for benign brain tumors with data from 413 cases (89% response rate), 305 with meningioma, 84 with acoustic neuroma, 24 with other types and 692 controls (84% response rate). For meningioma, analogue phones yielded odds ratio (OR) = 1.7, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.97-3.0, increasing to OR = 2.1, 95% CI = 1.1-4.3 with a >10-year latency period. Also digital cellular phones and cordless phones increased the risk to some extent. For acoustic neuroma, analogue phones gave OR = 4.2, 95% CI = 1.8-10 increasing to OR = 8.4, 95% CI = 1.6-45 with a >15-year latency period, but based on low numbers. Digital phones yielded OR = 2.0, 95% CI = 1.05-3.8, whereas for cordless phones OR was not significantly increased. In the multivariate analysis, analogue phones represented a significant risk factor for acoustic neuroma.
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Original Article (.pdf, 190 KB)
Dr. Lennart Hardell
University Hospital
SE-701 85 Örebro (Sweden)
Tel. +46 19 602 10 00, Fax +46 19 10 17 68
E-Mail lennart.hardell@orebroll.se
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Cell phones and eyesight
A new Israeli study is presented in the Israeli media as strong evidence for damage in the eyes by cellular phones, a mainstream journalist in a very mainstream newspaper writes "the findings were conclusive", the lens (of calves) exposed to the radiation lost focus.
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Abstract
A novel experimental system was used to investigate the localized effects of microwave radiation on bovine eye lenses in culture for over 2 weeks.
Using this setup, we found clear evidence that this radiation has a significant impact on the eye lens. At the macroscopic level, it is demonstrated that exposure to a few mW at 1 GHz for over 36 h affects the optical function of the lens.
Most importantly, self-recovery occurs if the exposure is interrupted. At the microscopic level, close examination of the lens indicates that the interaction mechanism is completely different from the mechanism-causing cataract via temperature increase.
Contrary to the latters effect, that is particularly pronounced in the vicinity of the sutures and it is assumed to be a result of local friction between the edges of the fibers consisting the lens. Even if macroscopically the lens has recovered from the irradiation, microscopically the indicators of radiation impact remain.
Bioelectromagnetics 26:398-405, 2005. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Received: 15 July 2004; Revised: 18 January 2005
From: Iris Atzmon, atzmonh@bezeqint.net
Sat, 2 Jul 2005
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How the study on power lines was presented on TV
Still about power lines. What is the meaning of the results of the new study
on power lines?
The meaning was explained on TV to the viewers (former Friday night),
by Dr. Sigal Sadezki, who leads the Israeli Interphone study.
I saw it slowly on video to write the exact words:
Sadezki:"This study joins to a line of other studies, that already supported
the existence of connection between power lines and risk for childhood
leukemia.
On the other hand, it is very important, as always, to understand that one
single study, even if it's a big study, and even if it's relatively a good
study, of course doesn't prove the connection, and certainly doesn't prove
the causality of the connection".
No wonder there is so much confusion among the public about health effects
from power lines!
Iris
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The issue of power lines
In The Netherlands the policy of the government now is not to build where the magnetic field is more than 400 nT. TenneT (the Transmission System Operator (TSO) in the Netherlands) has introduced a new high voltage system:
http://tennet.nl/english/news/archive/8693.asp#0
The magnetic fields by the Wintrack powerline system are decreased, because the lines are always six in a perfect circle (before, they were in triangles). The magnetic fields neutralize each other extensively. Moreover there are conductors in the ground, I don't understand exactly how, I think they take stray fields away. Ask them: servicecentrum@tennet.org
Regards, Frans
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Israeli experts committee on power lines
About a week ago, in a famous israeli TV programme called "Popolitics", which deals with everything that concerns the public, the issue of power lines was discussed, after the publication of the new study about power lines was reported widely in the newspapers and TV.
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Iris Atzmon
atzmonh@bezeqint.net
Tue, 14 Jun 2005
Notice umtsno: see advices to Governments from Repacholi-WHO
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Von Krampfanfällen bei Kleinkindern und von Belastungen durch Mobilfunk und Schnurlostelefon
Immer wieder wird erreichen mich Berichte über Säuglinge und Kleinkinder, bei denen unvermittelt Krampfanfälle auftreten. Relativ häufig handelt es sich dabei um Fälle atypischer Epilepsien, die mit üblichen Antikonsulfiva nur schwer oder ungenügend einstellbar sind. Ebenso auffällig ist, dass die übliche EEG-Diagnostik oft leer ausgeht oder atypische Befunde liefert.
Fraglos gibt es Fälle erblich bedingter oder durch Geburtsvorgänge ausgelöster Säuglings und Kleinkinder-Epilepsien, und die betroffenen Kinder bedürfen einer qualifizierten konsequenten antiepileptischen Führung. Auch fieberhafte Infekte mit jähem Temperaturanstieg können einen (als Fieberkrampf bezeichneten) Krampfanfall auslösen (der situativ bleibt, meist keine eigenständige Erkrankung darstellt und eher harmlos ist). Diese beiden Ursachen stehen hier nicht zur Diskussion. Es geht um die auffällige in den letzten Jahren zu beobachtende Vermehrung dieser Fälle.
Die Häufung frühkindlicher Krampfanfälle etwa in den letzten zehn Jahren ist auffällig kongruent zur weiteren Verbreitung der Mobilfunk- und DECT-Schnurlos-Telefonie.
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Motorola Funded Counter Research on Microwave DNA Damage
Dr Neil Cherry
Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Lincoln University
9th December 2002
Abstract
Dr Henry Lai and Dr Narendra Singh used a DNA Comet Assay developed by Dr
Singh to determine the microwaves damaged DNA-strands. They found that nonthermal
microwave exposures significantly caused single and double DNA stranded
breakage in living mice brains. The cellphone company Motorola wanted to prove
that these studies were wrong and that microwaves and cell phone radiation do not
cause DNA strand breakage. They funded Dr Roti Roti at Washington University, St
Louis to replicate the Lai and Singh studies to try to show that they do not produce
these effects. Dr Roti Roti used a different, much less sensitive assessment
method and used a cell-line not living mice. Hence it is not a replicate study. They
claimed not to show any DNA strand breakage from radiation exposures. The
analysis of their own published data shows that they actually did show that
microwaves and cellphone non-thermal radiation significantly damages DNAstrands
and enhances significant repair rates in human cells.
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Please consider my research on this subject.
We need absolute proof positive of the harmful effects of EM radiation on living systems.
We have it. The key is that the effects of radiation are CUMULATIVE - I repeat CUMULATIVE !!! IT CAN TAKE 10 - 20 - 30 or even more years for the damage to become apparent. It can even be handed down through generations.
These things we know.
Between the years of aproximately 1995 and 2005 (ten years) a poultry factory existed directly across the road from a very high power, multi-frequency (probably including micro-wave) transmitter site. The site has been there since 1943 but the poultry factories just began congregating in the early 90s. The factory where it all began (the virus outbreak in 2004) is directly across the road and to the east of the transmitter site.
Radiation alone will not cause a biological virus outbreak but it will weaken the living systems and prepare them for being vulnerable to biological and/or chemical attack and infection. Once ignited the virus becomes self-generating.
With help we can prove this - 19 million dead chickens and all of them disposed of without investigating the cause.
Is this a cover-up? I don't think so. It is just plain simple stupidity on behalf of people that pretend to be scientists.
I have shared my research with many knowledgeable people as well as many concerned people that don't understand EM radiation. I presented it to a Parliamentary Investigative committee. I have shared it with Louis Slesin, Olle Johannsen, Magda Havas and Henry Lai.
My point is?
I see this as a long term project beginning with a system of constant monitoring of background radiation in selected areas. It may take ten years but eventually HONEST epidemiologists will make the connection.
And ALWAYS we must keep in mind that the results of radiation are CUMULATIVE over time.
We need measurements of total accumulated radiation over a specified period of time. Just as we did in the 60s when we wore personal dosimeters in the field locating sources of radiation. Just as Xray technicians and also people required to work in the Chernobyl (1986?) area must. We need to measure accumulated radiation.
Motorola and Nokia - Siemens et al are not going to do it for us - but then - perhaps they already are?
Larry
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Das Verhältnis zwischen Leukämie-Risiko bei Kindern und Hochspannungsleitungen
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Kinder, die in der Nähe von Hochspannungsleitungen aufwachsen, erkranken häufiger an Leukämie als Kinder, deren Zuhause weit von Starkstromleitungen entfernt liegt.
Zu diesem Ergebnis kommen Wissenschaftler der Universität Oxford in der Studie "Childhood cancer in relation to distance from high voltage power lines in England and Wales: a case-control study". Die Wissenschaftler hatten dazu die Wohnorte von 29.000 krebskranken Kindern - 9700 mit Leukämie auf der Insel untersucht und festgestellt, daß überdurchschnittlich viele an Leukämie erkrankte Kinder in der Nähe von Überlandleitungen leben.
Kinder, die weniger als 200 Meter entfernt von einer Hochspannungsleitung auf die Welt kommen, haben demnach ein 69 Prozent höheres Risiko an Leukämie zu erkranken als Kinder, die mehr als 600 Meter entfernt von einem Starkstrommasten geboren wurden.
Leben Kinder in einer räumlichen Entfernung von 200 bis 600 Metern zu den Überlandleitungen, ist das Risiko einer Leukämie-Erkrankung gegenüber der weiter entfernt wohnenden Vergleichsgruppe laut Studie um 23 Prozent größer. Für andere Krebsformen wurde kein erhöhtes Risiko gefunden.
Die Autoren, die ihre epidemiologischen Erkenntnisse jetzt in der Fachzeitschrift British Medical Journal veröffentlicht haben, weisen allerdings darauf hin, daß es für die statistischen Daten derzeit keine akzeptierten biologischen Wirkmechanismen gebe.
9.6.05, Anm. von Krzysztof Puzyna (umtsno)
Es gibt verschiedene Theorien über die Wirkung der elektromagnetischen Felder auf Lebewesen: Manczarski - Plasma-Theorie, die Tesla-Resonanz-Theorie oder die Studie von Bo Sernelius. siehe auch die Erklärung von Dr. Hyland während der Konferenz der Whistleblower am 07.09.2003 in Starnbek
Ihrer gemeinsame Nenner ist, daß die elektromagnetischen Felder in der Milliarden mal kleineren Stärke als die Grenzwerte der ICNIRP-Maffia ( und durch diese Maffia unterwanderte WHO-Organisation in Genf) die lebenden Organismen schädigen. Keine dieser Theorien hat jemals eine Chance auf Anerkennung solange die Verbrecher und Lobbyisten von Vodafone bei WHO in Genf ihr Unwesen treiben dürfen. Übrigens der von Dr Hyland zitierte Direktor von WHO hat einen Namen- er heißt Repacholi
siehe dazu Gebote für Regierungen von WHO-Repacholi und Zusammenhang zwischen niederfrequenten Magnetfeldern und Brustkrebs
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Association between childhood leukaemia and high voltage power lines
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Childhood cancer in relation to distance from high voltage power lines in England and Wales: a case-control study Gerald Draper, honorary senior research fellow1, Tim Vincent, research officer1, Mary E Kroll, statistician1, John Swanson, scientific adviser2
1 Childhood Cancer Research Group, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HJ, 2 National Grid Transco plc, London WC2N 5EH
Correspondence to: G J Draper gerald.draper@ccrg.ox.ac.uk
Objective To determine whether there is an association between distance of home address at birth from high voltage power lines and the incidence of leukaemia and other cancers in children in England and Wales.
Design Case-control study.
Setting Cancer registry and National Grid records.
Subjects Records of 29 081 children with cancer, including 9700 with leukaemia. Children were aged 0-14 years and born in England and Wales, 1962-95. Controls were individually matched for sex, approximate date of birth, and birth registration district. No active participation was required.
Main outcome measures Distance from home address at birth to the nearest high voltage overhead power line in existence at the time.
Results Compared with those who lived > 600 m from a line at birth, children who lived within 200 m had a relative risk of leukaemia of 1.69 (95% confidence interval 1.13 to 2.53); those born between 200 and 600 m had a relative risk of 1.23 (1.02 to 1.49). There was a significant (P < 0.01) trend in risk in relation to the reciprocal of distance from the line. No excess risk in relation to proximity to lines was found for other childhood cancers.
Conclusions There is an association between childhood leukaemia and proximity of home address at birth to high voltage power lines, and the apparent risk extends to a greater distance than would have been expected from previous studies. About 4% of children in England and Wales live within 600 m of high voltage lines at birth. If the association is causal, about 1% of childhood leukaemia in England and Wales would be attributable to these lines, though this estimate has considerable statistical uncertainty. There is no accepted biological mechanism to explain the epidemiological results; indeed, the relation may be due to chance or confounding.
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see also ex Residential and Occupational Exposures to 50-Hz Magnetic Fields and Breast Cancer in Women
see Advice to Governments from Repacholi-WHO
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Prof.Trzaska: SAR ? the present protection standards are illogical and nonrealiazable.
23.05.05
Abstract
The paper discusses several aspects of the practical application of the SAR. It is shown that the unit is an ideal solution for basic research and laboratory experiments. SAR is directly nonmeasurable unit. Although methods and devices based upon indirect SAR measurements may widen our knowledge about EM energy distribution and absorption within a body. It is shown that for practical applications the temperature SAR measurement methods are not sensitive enough while methods based upon E (H) measurement are less accurate than traditional approaches. As a result of assumption SAR = 4 W/kg as a basic restriction the present protection standards are illogical and nonrealiazable. A return to traditional units (E,H,S) in the standards and surveying metrology is suggested.
Introduction
Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) has been widely accepted as an indicator of the ElectroMagnetic (EM) energy absorption by a living organism and among others, due to it, it was assumed as a good baseground for many protection standards and SAR was introduced to them as the basic restriction. Two introductory remarks:
- SAR is almost ideal unit showing quantity of energy absorbed from the electromagnetic field (EMF),
- the magnitude of SAR is a function of parameters characterising the EMF (frequency, modulation, polarization), the exposure conditions (temperature, humidity) and individual properties of the exposed animal or person (fatness, psychophysiological status, effectiveness of the thermoregulation system).
Evident conclusion:
- SAR may be excellent measure of correlation between exposure and thermal effects caused by it,
Anm. umtsno: (siehe auch Berechnung der spezifischen Absorptionsrate (SAR) dielektrischer Körper mit FEKO, in De, .pdf, 1,01 MB)- Info am 28.7.05 von: webmaster@elektrosmognews.de
- the magnitude of the SAR, assumed as permissible, is a result of conditions in which experiments were carried out, thus: the magnitudes suggested by different authors erformed in different conditions, differ more than in one order of magnitude [1]. As a result of a compromise, in famous paper [2] as the basic restriction was accepted SAR = 4 W/kg, that is approximately equal to the geometric mean of the magnitudes given in the literature. The compromise is here evident because for a standard formulation an introductory level assumption was necessary. However, it well illustrates that the assumed SAR, and the basic restriction, is not a physical constant but a magnitude chosen in more or less arbitrary way thus: approach to it should be flexible.
quotation: " It is possible to generate several simple examples, however, their final shape should be prepared by biologists and medical doctors, not by engineers or physicists; the latter represent a tendency to formal perfection, and the results of it
we have as the present standards."
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Prof. Szmigielski ex1, 2, 3, 4, Prof. Trzaska 1, 2, 3, Dr. van Velden 1, 2, Dipl.-Ing. Puzyna 1, 2, 3.
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watch !
with reference to the article published hier
Mrs. Sianette Kwee: "...Poland, as one of the countries that recently has joined the EU, has now to change their safety limits. Their original safety limits were much stricter than EU’s ICNIRP limits, so for them it is also a step backwards."
Mr. Hubert Trzaska /Poland provides completely different evidence please see his letter from 23.5.05
"Dear Sirs:
With no regard to my opinion on the Polish Protection Standards My presentation during meeting in Greece last year has nothing common with the standards and it was devoted to the sense of the Western World protection standards at all and to the sense of the SAR applications in particular.
With the best regards:
Hubert Trzaska
PS: a copy of my paper is enclosed herewith"
According to Mr. Stanislaw Szmigielski, see mail from 19 Nov 2004, Prof. Trzaska is only partially right describing entire situation. Prof. Szmigielski says that things look slightly different
"...this work has been taken over by special commission of Polish experts.
For sure this commission of Polish bioelectromagnetism will not vote for adaptation of polish standards to ICNIRP-values and will propose much lower safety limits."
Greetings
Krzysztof Puzyna
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24.05.2005
I forward your letter to Professor Szmigielski and to Professor Trzaska. Please
concentrate at differences between results of Prof. Szmigielski long term
research and results made in his summary.
http://iddd.de/umtsno/odpsejm/hum1.htm#31
http://iddd.de/umtsno/odpsejm/humR.htm#31tab1
http://iddd.de/umtsno/odpsejm/humR.htm#31tab2
Greetings
Krzysztof Puzyna
webmaster@umtsno.de
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25 May 2005
Dear Olle Johansson,
from: Krzysztof Puzyna
Exisiting standards you will be able to find here
http://who.int/docstore/peh-emf/EMFStandards/
(or Grenzwerte)
see also below of this site:
A comparison of new EMF public safety regulations in Poland with ICNIRP recommendations
(1998).
The public limits are not based on INCIRP however its been told in Poland that they
originate from it..
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in polish, perhaps in english:
A. Bortkiewicz, M. Zmyslony, A. Szyjkowska, E. Gadzicka from Zaklad Zagrozen Fizycznych
Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. prof. J. Nofera w Lodzi:
"Subjective symptoms reported by people living in the vicinity of cellular phone base
stations: a review of the studies"
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Standards to be recommended to the government are currently constructed
by commission consisting of following members: see
http://ptbr.org.pl/PTBR_bioel.htm
Greetings
Krzysztof Puzyna
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30 May 2005
From: Stanislaw Szmigielski, Szmigielski(przy)acn.waw.pl
To: webmaster@umtsno.de
Subject: Johansson to Szmigielski, Trzaska versus Kwee
Dear Professor Johansson;
Thank you for interest in EMF safety guidelines and limits being in force in Poland. In fact, we follow from 1972 an original form of EMF safety guidelines with separate permissible exposure levels (PEL) for workers and for general public.
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24 May 2005
From: Frans van Velden
fransp(bei)dds.nl
To: webmaster@umtsno.de
Dear Krzysztof Puzyna
What is the stand of Mr. S. Szmigielski about radiofrequency radiation by
send masts (GSM and UMTS/3G, TETRA, DECT, WLAN, WIFI)?
In my view 100 mikro Watt/m2 is the maximum limit. That is 0,2 V/m.
What does he propose?
kind regards
Frans van Velden
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30 May 2005
From: Stanislaw Szmigielski
szmigielski(przy)wihe.waw.pl
To: webmaster@umtsno.de
Dear Dr van Velden;
In Poland we have a permissible exposure level to microwave radiation (300 MHz - 300 GHz) for general public set at 0.1 W/sq.m. (mean power density), being equivalent of 6 V/m for electric field component. In our opinion this level provides adequate protection for continous exposures, in fact the real exposure levels for majority of the population are considerably lower.
Concerning the exposures from mobile phone base stations, being well below the permissible level of 0.1 W/sq.m., it is our strong feeling that, in view of the present state of art, no health risks of effects could be related to these exposures.
Best wishes and regards.
Professor dr med. Stanislaw Szmigielski,
Department of Microwave Safety,
Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Warsaw, Poland.
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31 May 2005
From: Hubert Trzaska
Hubert.Trzaska(przy)pwr.wroc.pl
To: webmaster@umtsno.de
Dear Mr. van Velden:
Than you so much for your question. I'll try to comment it as I'm unable to answer it.
I can't answer your question as I'm not a biologists nor a doctor. To tell you the truth an answer of such a nation would be unclear and within range from absolute zero to infinity, depending upon point of setting (point of view) of a person.
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31 May 2005
From: Frans van Velden
fransp(bei)dds.nl
To: webmaster@umtsno.de
Dear Krzysztof Puzyna,
I do not agree with Professor dr med. Stanislaw Szmigielski. He writes it is 'their strong feeling', so not scientifically based. Epidemiology shows effects around 100 mikroWatt/m2, some in vitro research even at 1 mikroWatt/m2. I attach some things.
Grüßt,
Frans van Velden
Original documents (.doc)
The report of the Jülich Institute has been ordered and financed by T-Mobile
Two single blind experiences
Scientific research concerning human well-being and health in the vicinity of phone masts.
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Tumour risk for rural mobile users
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent
17/05/2005
Mobile phone users who live in the countryside are more likely to develop brain tumours than those in towns and cities, a study published today shows.
Researchers found that people from rural areas who had used a digital mobile for five years or more were up to four times more likely to be diagnosed with a tumour.
They claimed the finding was due to handsets operating at greater power levels when they are further away from transmitters.
Mobile phone manufacturers rejected the findings, pointing out that all mobile phones operate at power levels that are within international safety limits.
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Adlkofer's study from REFLEX
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Non-thermal DNA breakage by mobile-phone radiation (1800MHz) in human fibroblasts and in transformed GFSH-R17 rat granulosa cells in vitro.
Diem E, Schwarz C, Adlkofer F, Jahn O, Rudiger H.
Division of Occupational Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, Vienna 1090, Austria.
Cultured human diploid fibroblasts and cultured rat granulosa cells were exposed to intermittent and continuous radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) used in mobile phones, with different specific absorption rates (SAR) and different mobile-phone modulations. DNA strand breaks were determined by means of the alkaline and neutral comet assay. RF-EMF exposure (1800MHz; SAR 1.2 or 2W/kg; different modulations; during 4, 16 and 24h; intermittent 5min on/10min off or continuous wave) induced DNA single- and double-strand breaks. Effects occurred after 16h exposure in both cell types and after different mobile-phone modulations. The intermittent exposure showed a stronger effect in the comet assay than continuous exposure. Therefore we conclude that the induced DNA damage cannot be based on thermal effects.
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17.05.2005
Weitere Teilstudie im Rahmen des Europäischen REFLEX-Projekts.
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Nicht-thermische DNA-Brüche durch Mobilfunkstrahlung (1800 MHz) in
menschlichen Fibroblasten und in veränderten GFSH-R17 Granulosazellen
von Ratten in vitro
Studie
Abstract: Rattenkulturzellen (diploide Fibroblasten und Granulosazellen) wurden in intermittierender und kontinuierlicher hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Strahlung (RF-EMF) mit verschiedenen spezifischen Absorptionsraten (SAR) und unterschiedlichen mobilfunktypischen Modulationen exponiert. Die Brüche der DNA-Stränge wurden mit Hilfe der
alkalischen und neutralen Comet Assay-Methode bestimmt. Die RF-EMF Exposition (1800MHz; SAR 1,2 oder 2W/kg; unterschiedliche Modulationen; während 4, 16 und 24 Stunden; intermittierend 5 min an / 10 min aus oder kontinuierliche Wellen) bewirkte DNA Einzel- und Doppelstrangbrüche.
Diese Wirkungen traten nach einer Exposition von 16 Stunden in beiden Zelltypen auf und nach unterschiedlichen Mobilfunkmodulationen. Die intermittierende Exposition zeigte stärkere Auswirkungen beim Comet Assay als die kontinuierliche Exposition, woraus die Autoren schließen,daß die Schädigung der DNA nicht durch thermische Effekte verursacht wird.
Bibliographische Angaben: Diem E, Schwarz C, Adlkofer F, Jahn O, RudigerH., Mutat Res. 2005 Apr 30;
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A preliminary study on ultra high frequency electromagnetic fields effect on black locust chlorophylls.
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Sandu DD, Goiceanu IC, Ispas A, Creanga I, Miclaus S, Creanga DE.
Faculty of Physics, "Al I Cuza" University, 6600 lasi.
Chlorophylls were quantitatively studied in the leaves of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) seedlings exposed to electromagnetic fields of high frequency. Exposure system was designed and built up to make possible simultaneous exposure of seedling lots (3 months old) to low power density electromagnetic fields corresponding to a frequency of 400 MHz. After three weeks of daily exposures (1, 2, 3 and 8 hours), chlorophyll levels were measured using adequate spectral device. Statistical analysis of experimental results was performed by means of t-test to identify significant modifications induced by electromagnetic treatment in exposed samples in comparison to the control. Chlorophyll-a as well as chlorophyll-b level was found to decrease except the exposure time of two hours, where a considerable enhancement was noticed.
It was revealed that the ratio of the two main types of chlorophyll was decreasing logarithmically to the increase of daily exposure time.
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Voruntersuchung zur Wirkung elektromagnetischer Felder sehr hoher Frequenzen auf das Chlorophyll der Robinie
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Studie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/691472/
Aus dem Abstract: Die Chlorophylle der Blätter von Robiniensämlingen (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) wurden nach Exposition in hochfrequenten elektromagnetischen Feldern (400 MHz) quantitativ untersucht. Nach dreiwöchiger täglicher Exposition (1, 2, 3 und 8 Stunden) wurde die Menge des Chlorophylls gemessen. Dabei wurde festgestellt, daß die Menge an Chlorophyll-a als auch die an Chlorophyll-b gesunken war, außer bei einer Expositionszeit von zwei Stunden, bei der eine beträchtliche Steigerung zu verzeichnen war.
Der Versuch zeigte, daß das Verhältnis der beiden Haupttypen des Chlorophylls logarithmisch abnahm in dem Maße wie die tägliche Exposition andauerte.
Bibliographische Angaben: Sandu DD, Goiceanu IC, Ispas A, Creanga I,
Miclaus S, Creanga DE., Acta Biol Hung. 2005;56(1-2):109-17.
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Cell phone base stations change brain currents and cause unwellness
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Research in Austria
The radiation of a cell phone base station at a distance of 80 metres causes significant changes of the electrical currents in the brains of testees (measured by electroencefalogram, EEG). All the testees said they felt unwell during the radiation, some of them seriously.
That is the result of an investigation by a team of Austrian scientists. They measured alpha 1 (8 to 10 Hz), alpha 2 (10 to 12 Hz) and beta waves (13 to 20 Hz). A small density of GSM 900 and GSM 1800 radiation already caused several significant changes in these three frequency ranges. This means the body is stressed - temporarily this may have some positive
effect, in the long run however stress certainly reduces the quality of life, capacity for work and state of health.
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Strahlung von Mobilfunksende-Anlagen beeinflussen Gehirnströme
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[27.04.2005]
[Land Salzburg] Salzburger Umweltmediziner Oberfeld stellt Ergebnisse einer neuen Studie vor
(LK) "Die Ergebnisse einer neuen Studie zeigen weltweit erstmals, daß die Einstrahlung einer Mobilfunksendeanlage (GSM 900/1800 MHz) in etwa 80 Metern Entfernung zu signifikanten Veränderungen unterschiedlicher EEG-Parameter führt. Die gemessenen Veränderungen der Gehirnströme sind mit verschiedenen vegetativen und zentralnervösen Störungen, über die die Probanden berichteten, in Zusammenhang zu bringen."
Dies teilte heute, Mittwoch, 27. April, der Salzburger Umweltmediziner Dr. Gerd Oberfeld vom Referat "Gesundheit, Hygiene und Umweltmedizin" des Landes mit.
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REFLEX Studie - aktuelle Situation (19.03.05)
- lt. Prof Adlkofer sind die Ergebnisse der Studie für den Hochfrequenzbereich bereits innerhalb der REFLEX-Studie von verschiedenen Laboratorien reproduziert worden; damit ist das letzte Kriterium für den "wissenschaftlichen Nachweis" erfüllt. Wir sollten das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz jetzt auffordern, zu begründen, warum dieser "wissenschaftliche Nachweis" nicht akzeptiert wird.
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Prof. Dr. Adlkofer schrieb:
Sehr geehrter Herr Schmidt,
haben Sie vielen Dank für die Überlassung Ihres Briefwechsels mit dem Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, das sich - wenn ich dies richtig deute - bei der Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Studien offensichtlich auch der Hilfe der Industrie bedient.
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Studie: Handymast stört Schlaf
Pilotstudie der Grazer TU beweist: Handymasten können Schlafstörungen verursachen – nun wird österreichweit geforscht.
Wer nachts durchs Klingeln seines Handys im Schlaf gestört wird, ist selbst schuld. Handymasten dagegen kann man nicht ausschalten – und auch sie können für Schlafstörungen sorgen. Das ist zumindest das Ergebnis einer weltweit einzigartigen Pilotstudie der Grazer Technischen Universität, welche nun mit der Unterstützung des Lebens- und des Wirtschaftsministeriums österreichweit weitergeführt wird.
Durchgeführt wird die Studie über die Auswirkungen des sogenannten Elektrosmog bzw. dessen Einwirken auf unsere Gesundheit vom „Institut für Krankenhaustechnik" der TU, dessen Leiter Norbert Leitgeb ist.
vom 18.1.2005
Quelle: http://grazerwoche.at/
siehe auch: 40 Prozent der Deutschen schlafen schlecht
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WHO reagiert auf Forderungen nach epidemiologischen Studien und der Anwendung des Vorsorgeprinzips
Quelle: Webseite der Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO
WHO kündigt erneut epidemiologische Untersuchungen HF-belasteter Bevölkerungsgruppen an - wann erfolgt die Umsetzung?
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Die WHO fordert alle interessierten Kreise weiter dazu auf, aktiv an diesem Prozess teilzunehmen
Alle beteiligten und interessierten Kreise (Bürgergruppen, Umweltverbände, Industrie, Kommunen etc.) werden gebeten, ihre Vorstellungen von der Umsetzung des Vorsorgeprinzips an die WHO zu mailen, und zwar an:
emfproject@who.int
Telefon: 0041 22 791 49 76, Fax: 0041 22 791 41 23, Postanschrift: World Health Organization (WHO), Radiation Program Radiation and Environmental Health, 20 Avenue Appia , CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland/Schweiz/Suisse
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Europaparlament will mehr Schutz vor Elektrosmog
BRÜSSEL (taf). Präventive ärztliche Kontrollen zum Schutz von Arbeitnehmern vor elektromagnetischen Feldern sollen verstärkt werden. Dies hat das Europäische Parlament (EP) gefordert und damit grünes Licht für eine geplante Richtlinie gegeben.
Das Regelwerk setzt Expositionsgrenzwerte zum Schutz von Arbeitnehmern fest. Wird ein Grenzwert überschritten, muss der Mitarbeiter ärztlich untersucht werden. Die Richtlinie zielt vor allem auf Beschäftigte in der Stahlindustrie, Metallbearbeitung oder auf Personen, die in der Nähe von Fernseh- oder Radioübertragungsmasten, Radargeräten sowie Mobilfunkantennen arbeiten.
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Ärzte warnen vor Kopfschmerz, Depressionen und Unfruchtbarkeit
Wird Elektrosmog verharmlost?
von Ann Hörath
Schlaflos, unfruchtbar, krank durch elektromagnetische Strahlung? "Durchaus möglich!", meinen Kollegen vom Zentralverband der Ärzte für Naturheilverfahren (ZÄN).
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