The full PDF: http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
The WHO (http://www.who.int/
In the last 30 years the WHO and IARC, and other bodies, refused to even consider RF radiation has having any health effect other than a heating effect. Even today after the revolutionary resolution was accepted, the IARC and the WHO still do not admit, or accept, the science and proof that point out the facts that low level RF radiation can cause DNA breaks, break blood brain barrier, oxidant stress, and many more influences of RF and ELF radiation. Their view on the matter was that RF radiation that is emitted from cellphones and other wireless equipment does not have enough energy to cause real damages, and for years they continue to argue that (like a broken record) and while people got sick and paid a big price for the WHO lack of understanding. Some people would even say the WHO opinion was shaped by political and financial pressure from the industry.
This resolution of the IARC come out after serious claims where made about conflict of interest of several members of the RF committee of the IARC, and after the chairman, Anders Ahlbom was removed from his position one day before the comity was schedule to meet (http://www.microwavenews.com/
The resolution came few days after the The Council of Europe called for dramatic reduction in EMF exposure ( http://www.powerwatch.org.
The resolution was based on the results of the interphone study (The intephone study that was finished in 2004 and which results were published after more than 5 years of delay in 2010 and which are consider to be a low assessment and show 40% increased risk to people who used the mobile phone for more than 27 minutes per day), 2 additional new studies that were just published and which are part of the interphone study () , several studies that were done by prof. Lennart Hardell, and a study that was done by Yael Stein and Elihu Richter from the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine in Jerusalem (). All of these research showed a link between exposure to RF radiation and cancer.
In the next few years cellphone companies, manufacturers and distributors, backed up by paid science will try to buy more time on the expense of our health. They will argue that "cell phones today emit less RF radiation that they used to, and that new generations of cell phones will emit even less". They will try to discredit the science that shows the link between RF radiation and cancer, and will try to prove otherwise. They will do anything in their power to stop new laws and regulations that could protect the public and will then say that they act within laws and regulation. They will try to buy their way into committees and decision making boards and will try to influence the future, all so they can make an extra dollar before the public will understand the truth. We must do our best to show the truth and to prevent this from happening.
The WHO's old view from the WHO RF fact sheet: " To date, the only health effect from RF fields identified in scientific reviews has been related to an increase in body temperature (> 1 °C) from exposure at very high field intensity found only in certain industrial facilities, such as RF heaters. The levels of RF exposure from base stations and wireless networks are so low that the temperature increases are insignificant and do not affect human health."(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs304/en/).
Read more about it:
Moricowave news - http://www.microwavenews.com/
The washinton Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The New York times - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/
The Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/article/
The Sydney Morning Herald - http://www.smh.com.au/digital-
The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
TV3 – New Zealand http://www.3news.co.nz/Should-
An article about reduction and prevention of exposure of students to EMR was published today on Israeli Internet newspaper.
The environmental and health committee in the KNESSET (Israel parliament) called the government to adopt the recommendations of a technical committee to reduce and to prevent exposure to electromagnetic radiation of students in schools to, due to the possible health effect of electromagnetic radiation might have on their health.
An automatically Hebrew to English translated (google translate) can be found on the following link: http://translate.google.com/
I did my best to summaries the article:
The electromagnetic radiation sources that were addressed are:
· Mobile Phones
· Wireless computer network systems, WLAN, WIFI
· Laptops
· Power lines
· Electrical power transformers
· Electrical cabinets
· Additional sources.
The Recommendations:
· Compose a habit changing educational plan that will explain about Electromagnetic radiation, and about the possible related health risk. The plan will also cover tools and means to reduce the exposure to EMR like the right way to use mobile phones, reduction of the usage, limiting the number and length of calls, using a wired earpiece, sending SMS rather than talking and will discuss also the usage of cellphones while driving, using cellphone before going to sleep and additional aspects.
· Schools should Place of wired landline telephones for students to use.
· Consider establishment of special areas in schools in which mobile phone can be used and limiting the use of mobile phone elsewhere (similar to smoking areas).
· Ensuring that teachers will use cell phones only in the staff room or areas that will be allocate.
· The Ministry of Transport will ban cell phone use for young drivers and public transportation drivers (because of the serious impact on driving even when using headsets or handfree kits).
· Wired computer network in schools will be preferred over wireless networks.
· Reduce and limit students' exposure to radiation sources from the electricity network.
· Radiation tests will be mandatory at the end of construction or maintenance work done on the electricity network and infrastructure in schools.
· The Ministry of Environment Protection will present a schedule for radiation tests in all schools and educational institutions to be completed within one year.
· The Ministry of Education will map all the classrooms and schools to find classrooms that are located near or next to a possible electrical radiation source and will deliver this info to the Ministry of Environment Protection who will use it to priorities these classes to be tested first (for radiation).
· Radiation Hazards found in schools will be reported to the construction department in the Ministry of Education.
· The report will include a description of the hazard, methods of treatment and repair.
· The construction department in the Ministry of Education will be responsible to deal with the problems found, including in some cases evacuation of students from problematic classrooms, and reporting the problems to the Israeli eclectic company and to the school in question so they will fix the problems.
· After fixing the problem the Ministry of Environment Protection may make a second test.
I hope that the government will soon adopt these recommendations.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/295085
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The researchers from the Nasocentis reproductive medicine center in cordoba, Argentina found that electromagnetic radiation emitted from a wireless laptop using WiFi reduce sperm motility and fragment it’s DNA.
The study will be presented at the 66 congress of the American Socievy from reproductive medicine later this year at October in Denver.
The interphone study that was published this week and made a lot of headlines. After the dust of the battle slowly disappear the facts and problems of the study are shown clearly at the light of day.
Problems in the study:
My conclusion is that this study has 2 final true results:
