Please, have a look at this very interesting news item:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16470166?source=Evening%20Standard


Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden)

by Julian Lee, Marketing Reporter

January 13, 2005

The mobile phone industry has ruled out changes to marketing to children in light of a warning by a leading scientist that the phones could still pose health risks.

The British Government's leading adviser on radiation, Sir William Stewart, has urged parents of children under 10 to deny them access to mobile phones until scientists can say handsets are safe.

His warnings come as the number of six- to nine-year-olds using mobiles in Australia hit 2 per cent, far less than the reported figure of 14 per cent in Britain.

Australia's mobile phone operators claim they are doing enough already to ensure that figure does not rise.

"Our position to not market to under 10s remains solely a social issue. Our resolve in this respect has not changed. The health issues remains a separate issue," a Virgin Mobile spokeswoman said.

"There's nothing new in the research and it confirms that mobile phones do not cause adverse effects," a Telstra spokesman said. Telstra is exploring a handset for the under-10s and promotions in magazines targeting 10- to 14-year-olds are acceptable because Telstra classifies them as "youths" not "children". Vodafone and Optus are not changing their guidelines that prohibit marketing to under-16s.

As chairman of Britain's National Radiation Protection Board, Sir William concluded in 2000 that there were no adverse health effects for the general public but that children should only use mobiles for essential calls.

This week he told the London-based Daily Telegraph that making mobiles available to children under nine was "ludicrous". He was more concerned about the possible health hazards than he was five years ago because the number of mobile phones had doubled, the paper reported.

In October, Stockholm's Karolinska Institute found there was an increased risk of a brain tumour for people who had used mobiles for more than 10 years.

The Federal Government agency that monitors radiation levels, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, is satisfied with the emission levels of handsets but a spokesman admitted there was still a "degree of uncertainty".

A specialist in occupational medicine, Dr Bruce Hocking, said: "There are still major concerns about the safety of handsets so if people are going to be serious where children are concerned then they should urge them to use SMS or a landline in ordinary circumstances."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/No-halt-to-downward-mobile-marketing/2005/01/12/1105423557223.html


Informant: Don Maisch

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050207_tonight.asp


Informant: Gary

From Mast Network


If people read down to the Sitefinder map they will see just how bad London has become: http://www.sitefinder.radio.gov.uk/ to look up UK cell sites.

One primary school in London, in Soho, has about 120 base stations within a 1000 feet circle.

Yes, 120, I am NOT kidding. The world has gone cell-phone mad. They are coming to a place near you soon!

Alasdair


Informant: Don Maisch

Dear Mr Walton,

I note that you are seeking a site for a 3G mast in the Roundhill area of Brighton (ref 51558).

I live near the bottom of Florence Road and do not want to live within 500 metres of any mast, but especially not a 3G one, due to well founded health concerns.

Please do not try to persuade me that these masts are safe or tell me that they operate well within current guidelines. I know they are not safe and I know current guidelines are irrelevant as they do not measure the pulsed microwaves which cause the damage.

I do not think you should be placing these masts so near homes and schools. I believe you need to investrigate current mast technology, research and evidence and not roll out these masts until you and people who will be living nearby are truly convinced they are safe, as well as ensuring they are placed well away from ANY homes, hospital, nursing homes and schools.

Yours Sincerely
Gary Kemp
Florence Road
Brighton



Letter sent to The Argus

A new report from the University of Utah says when motorists between 18 and 25 talk on cell phones - including handsfree - they move and react as slowly as the average seventy year old and increase their risk of accidents.

It found that drivers who talked on mobiles were 18 percent slower which it claims could be the difference to stopping in time to avoid hitting a child.

It also found that motorists who talk on mobiles are more impaired than drunken drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding 0.08.

And on February 1, the head of Russia's national health, Gennadi Onishenko, announced research results showing that mobiles harmed childrens' health in particular and caused child cancer.

He said: "Even if a child uses a mobile phone for two minutes, the child's bioelectric activities remain unstable for two hours."

He also introduced Hungarian research showing that using mobiles from a younger age increased the risks of developing brain tumors in ones twenties.

He refuted phone manufacturers' claims that the products were safe, saying, "Mobile phones cause insomnia, memory failure, and high blood pressure."

He also stated that people who keep mobiles near their bodies - around their necks, in their pockets, or carrying them in their hands - were in more danger.

Thus, he claimed that children, pregnant females, and drivers with cardiac pacemakers should not use mobile phones.

In Russia, which has no mobile phone manufacturer, research regarding mobiles is announced freely, whilst in the UK, the media makes huge amounts of money from the Telecom industry. Two ex Orange CEOs now occupy key positions at the Daily Telegraph.

In Brighton and Hove, T-Mobile has selected sixteen sites for its' third generation masts, which are much more powerful than conventional (GSM) ones, even though ill health clusters around GSMs including cancer, epilepsy and motor neurone disease have been widespread in the UK for years and high quality research has repeatedly shown the masts are to blame.


Gary

Para 16 Electronic Communication Code
http://www.planningsanity.co.uk/forums/masts/comp.html

Informant: Chris Maile

From: Mast Network

----- Original Message -----
From: Milt Bowling

Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 8:41 PM
Subject: Vancouver School Board Motion

The VSB passed this tonight, I am pleased to say.

Milt


Whereas
There is no conclusive evidence that the installation of cellular antenna on or adjacent to schools is safe, and

Whereas
The current standard for maximum allowable exposure levels for radiating energy in Health canada's Safety Code 6 is based on thermal effects only, and

Whereas
Results from active research in this area is not expected to be available In the immediate future to confirm a satisfactory level of student safety, and

Whereas
Part of the core purpose of VSB is to provide a safe learning environment for our students:

Be It Resolved That:

a. no further installations of cellular antenna be permitted on any school building or school grounds regularly used by students, and

b. that VSB policy, KMGA, Incompatible Land Uses Near Schools, be amended to include any installation of cellular antenna within 305 m (1000 feet) of a school as an incompatible use and that VSB be so notified.


Informant: Robert Riedlinger



EM Fields On Brain Tumor Incidence - Chemicals And Cell Phones
http://tinyurl.com/5acnw

San Francisco enacts Precautionary Principal
http://tinyurl.com/6zate

A precautionary tale - US big business is furious
http://tinyurl.com/47oaw


Informant: Pamela Valenti


Comments on Vancouver School Board passes Motion on base stations

by Alasdair Philips to Don Maisch

I know various emails have circulated about this already. I applaud this action but do wonder if it will work in practice.

In the UK various schools / Local Education Authorties have done this over the last 8 years, and what happens is that the mast usually gets put up on private land 100 metres or so from the school whereby the school is actually MORE exposed to microwave radiation in the main beam from the mast that it would have been with the antennas above the roof of the school buildings themselves.

So my questions are:

What realistic chance is there that VSB policy, KMGA, Incompatible Land Uses Near Schools, be amended to include any installation of cellular antenna within 305 m (1000 feet) of a school as an incompatible use?

Would that become enforceable law?

Or is this just a publicity pressure / issue raiser vote?

Alasdair



Dear Alasdair (and Don and Milt),

A very important comment! I have for many years tried to point out the very same. If an operator remove masts and place them further away, the operator will have to increase the transmitting output power, which means that for instance a school will be equally well irradiated (even to a higher level since the local transmitters (=the cellular phones) must increase their output level). So, in essence, this can turn out contra-productive.

But, do not misunderstand me: Since the biologically effective levels are down to 100,000 times below the recommended exposure levels for U.K. citizens, the question is not to move base stations, they questions is:

Should you allow yourself to be irradiated at all?

Furthermore, very much of the scientific thinking is nowadays aimed at "non-thermal, non-SAR, non-ICNIRP"-based hypotheses. We left the thermal noise level many years ago, but certain areas of society does not seem to grasp that...

Olle

(Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden)



Hi Don and Alasdair,

There is only one remaining school with transmitters on the roof. I understand your point about more radiation if it is moved 100 meters away [although it will still be within "international guidelines"].

If I draw a 1,000 foot diameter circle around every school in Vancouver, that is going to encompass a huge number of transmitters which are now "incompatible" due to their proximity. Their main beams are pointing at a number of schools. The Director of Facilities is on holiday until the 21st but I plan to get together with him and see where we can take this legally with the city. I will also tie this in with the firefighters, who want the antennae removed from two firehalls, [the city gets the rent] in keeping with the IAFF resolution passed last August in Boston.

The school board is also planning to raise community awareness about this issue, including a letter of explanation to parents of every student in the district. I expect to help them write that letter.

This wheel keeps squeeking.

Milt

by: PTI

January 21, 2005

New Delhi: Congress MP Murli Deora, who was instrumental in the Supreme Court's orders on a ban on public smoking, has now taken up the issue of hazards of cell phone usage, urging the Central government to initiate a legislation in this regard.

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Deora said that "we should act before it is too late" as the medical research fraternity around the world was now coming alive to the problem of health hazards from mobile phones and the concern was growing wider.

"The range of health hazards identified by the researchers till now is alarmingly scary and mind boggling", he said adding that "this impending threat renders it imperative for the government to initiate urgent legislation".

He said the legislation should make it mandatory for all cell phone companies to have scientists undertake research to "unambiguously establish that cell phone usage does not expose users to health hazards".

Besides, it should ask mobile companies to carry a statutory warning, as in the case of cigarettes, prominently on the phones and in all their publicity materials pending conclusive evidence one way or the other.

Deora said that cell phone companies should be prohibited from establishing base stations on structures owned and occupied by schools, hospitals and on other such public places.

He wanted that high voltage transmissions from all health care centres and hospitals must be banned by legislation as prevalent in the US and some other countries.

"Our government should at the same time keep a constant vigil on what steps other concerned governments take in the wake of newer research findings and implement them here without delay", he said in the letter, a copy of which was sent to Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss.

Making a strong plea for urgent measures on the issue, he said India was already facing several major challenges like combating HIV/AIDS, tobacco consumption, environmental and hygiene related diseases, night blindness from malnutrition and afflictions caused by "legislation-defying environment polluting industries".

"The cell phone hazard would now seem to add yet another major challenge affecting lakhs of people in view of the phenomenal rise in the demand for cell phones in the country within a short time".

He expressed the hope that given the far reaching implications of the threat, the country's initiative would meet with appreciation from the global community.

Noting that "delay in action in the case of tobacco already stands as an important lesson to be learnt from", he hoped that the Prime Minister will give suitable directions to the Ministries concerned so that they press the cell phone companies for early action.

© 2004 Mid-Day Multimedia Ltd. All rights reserved

http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2005/january/102005.htm


Informant: Gotemf

I thank Ian for his response email but didn't expect or need any apology. I have my view; he has his. However, Ian writes: "I am not a spokesman for ecoflow so cannot speak on behalf of the company and only have anecdotal evidence about how the products have helped people affected by mobile phones and other sources of electro pollution."

see: http://www.devon4business.co.uk/magnotech.htm
and: http://www.magnatech.symshop.com/index.php?Screen=abou

These clearly show that Ian Gander owns a major Ecoflow Distribution Company partner (whatever Network Marketing people call them).

I find his quote, above, rather odd seeing he and his company strongly promote Ecoflow products. That is his right, of course, but why is he distancing himself from Ecoflow in this way? I do not find it very reassuring. Surely a major distributor of a product has the evidence to back up his promotional claims? Otherwise it sounds like there may be a Trading Standards problem here. The money-back offer is great, but how do people actually know that it is protecting them and their loved ones from cancer or dementia in 15 years time?

Ian's Magnatech website claims about the Bioguard: "It can be bought as a necklace or badge to provide continuous protection."
... and about the Biophone: "By far the most well documented and worrying threat comes from mobile phones. The Biophone works specifically to neutralise the effects of electro-magnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones."

How will the claims be judged in a High Court case for damages by someone who developed an acoustic neuroma, that have now been solidly been associated with 5+ years mobile phone use, following their mobile phone use, when they thought they were being protected by their Biophone and Bioguard products that they bought and used in good faith?

Will the Court accept that the above claims were just anecdotal and didn't offer any meaningful protection? Time will tell.

I repeat here that I do accept that the Ecolflow magnetic wrist bands for arthritic pain, various magnetic bandages for healing purposes, and the vehicle fuel economy products from Ecoflow all do have some good evidence for their efficacy.

I am specifically concerned about the claims being made for the Biophone and Bioguard.

Alasdair Philips


Informant: Don Maisch

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Validity of the science, promotion and sales of EMR "Protective Devices"

http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=206116
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bioelectromagnetics/message/1046

----- Original Message -----
From: ROY Beavers
To: m.co-di@eic.ictnet.es
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:17 AM
Subject: WHO Flip-Flops on the Precautionary Principle (MicroWaveNews)....

.....................From EMF-L.................

Question: What kind of scientist uses politicians tricks to justify a "scientific" conclusion???

Answer: TWO kinds - A World Health Organization (WHO) "scientist"!!!!
- And a Phony, non scientist!!!!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: WHO Flip-Flops on the Precautionary Principle
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:12:13 -0400
From: Microwave News <info@microwavenews.com>
To: Roy Beavers <guru@emfguru.org>

WHO Flip-Flops on EMFs, Precautionary Principle Now Revoked

June 5, 2003 - The World Health Organization has decided not to invoke the precautionary principle for electromagnetic fields (EMFs), Dr. Michael Repacholi has told Microwave News.

Less than three months after the WHO EMF project told participants at its workshop on the precautionary principle that there is "sufficient evidence" to apply the principle to power-frequency EMFs and radiofrequency and microwave radiation, Repacholi, who runs the project, said that the earlier statement was only a trial balloon.

"The draft we submitted to the Luxembourg workshop was purely a discussion draft to provoke comment....It was very successful at that," Repacholi said.

The move took many of those who had attended the February workshop by surprise. We have full coverage --including reactions of those who went to Luxembourg-- in our May/June 2003 issue, which is now at the printer.

You can order a copy today at a special discount price: For details, go to our Web site,
http://www.microwavenews.com

Order your copy today, and you'll also receive our coverage of these stories, and more:

* In the U.K., Dr. David de Pomerai of the University of Nottingham has shown that very weak microwave radiation can change the shape of proteins, prompting them to clump together or form long strands called fibrils. De Pomerai argues that these changes in turn trigger the production of heat shock proteins, previously reported by his and other labs.

* A proposal from the IEEE's International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety to relax the limits for mobile phone radiation has come in for criticism. The May/June issue explains why.

* Exposure to power-frequency magnetic fields at work increased the risk prostate cancer among utility workers.

* The U.K. government has announced an $8 million long-term study of the possible health effects of radiation from TETRA digital radios, which police throughout the country will soon be using.

* In our main editorial, we look at the Bioelectromagnetics Society on the eve of its 25th birthday, and ask why it has failed to live up to its promise.

Our front page and editorials (including one on the WHO decision) will be posted on our Web site after our subscribers have received their copies of the May/June issue.

Best,

Louis Slesin, PhD
Editor & Publisher


Copyright ©. Miguel Muntané Condeminas. Barcelona.
Industrial Engineer E.T.S.E.I.B. General Manager Consulting Comunicació i Disseny S.L. m.co-di@eic.ictnet.es



Letter to the WHO in response to its Precautionary Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/473990/

WHO comment on Draft EMF Framework
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/497913/

Abstract

Research in the past on the biological effects of microwaves often has been based on faulty assumptions. The major flaw has been the premise that microwaves only produce thermal effects in tissue. This premise easily may be proven physically incorrect.

Furthermore, assuming only thermal effects leads one to an optimist's error of quantification in which calories are counted instead of joules. Past investigations have been misled both by these assumptions and by stereotyped experiments using only narrow­band radiation sources. Recent studies show that wide­band microwaves bring out biological effects which are unrelated to those caused by heat flow. A review by Kenneth Foster provides a basis for criticism and improved understanding.

http://arXiv.org/pdf/physics/0102007


Informant: John



Non thermal effects of exposure to EMF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/538361/

A Break-through in Understanding Non-Thermal Electromagnetic Field Effects
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/522713/

Phasic behavioral and endocrine effects of microwaves of nonthermal intensity
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/252799/

Prof. Sianette Kwee: The effects of radiofrequency fields on cell proliferation are non-thermal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/205735/

Non Thermal Studies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/659124/