TO: safetycode6codedesecurite6@hc-sc.gc.ca, rona.ambrose@parl.gc.ca
CC: stephen.harper@parl.gc.ca, Info@hc-sc.gc.ca,
July 9, 2014
CC: stephen.harper@parl.gc.ca, Info@hc-sc.gc.ca,
| perry.kendall@gov.bc.ca, hlth.minister@gov.bc.ca, "john.horgan.mla@leg.bc.ca" <john.horgan.mla@leg.bc.ca>, randall.garrison@parl.gc.ca, elizabeth.may@parl.gc.ca, Richard.Stanwick@viha.ca |
July 9, 2014
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
I am calling on Health Canada to recognize the biological effects from the microwave radiation this is being emitted from the unregulated wireless technology in our schools.
I am calling on Health Canada to recognize the biological effects from the microwave radiation this is being emitted from the unregulated wireless technology in our schools.
I
don’t need ‘more research’ to prove that the microwave radiation from
wireless technology is making our children sick. In April of 2012, my
proof was my 7-year-old grandson coming home from school with severe headaches.
The first few times I asked Tyler to place his finger where it hurt and he
would touch the top of his head. But later, as the headaches increasingly
became worse to the point of nausea, Tyler was unable to touch the pain, crying
it was in the middle of his head.
Tyler suffers from severe headaches accompanied with nausea, extreme fatigue and insomnia when exposed to commercial WiFi transmitters 6 hours a day 5 days a week in his school. It took two applications of Advil and Tylenol to stop him from crying from the pain inside his head, to finally stop hurting. After seeking medical help from specialists who could find nothing wrong with him, we found that all his symptoms disappeared when we took him out of the school environment. This was all the proof I needed.
Children with an environmental intolerance are medically known to be electromagnetic hypersensitive (EHS). EHS is caused by prolonged exposure to Wi-Fi and wireless devices emitting microwave, radio frequency radiation. Symptoms commonly associated with microwave sickness include headaches, fast heart rate, chest pain, dizziness, nausea, concentration and memory problems, anxiety, sleep disorders, extreme fatigue, skin rash, facial flushing, nosebleeds, ringing in the ears, and more.
The Canadian Human Rights recognizes EHS as a disability and says “Given the seriousness of the adverse effects and the availability of alternative technologies, a precautionary approach is warranted.”
School Boards across the country have decided for the parents without full disclosure or parental consent that it is now mandatory that all children will be exposed to microwave radiation that is emitting from commercial Wi-Fi transmitters and wireless devices. Health Canada has robbed parents of the right to protect their children from this irreversible and permanent damage done by the low frequency microwave radiation by not acknowledging the biological effects it has on the human body.
Parents must conform to the decision made by the School Boards or be dismissed from the School District. We are now driving 40 minutes a day to our third School District for a ‘Wi-Fi free’ school even though Tyler’s home school is only 2 blocks from my home.
By willfully closing your eyes to the thousands of peer reviewed non-industry funded studies by scientists and medical experts and allowing the wireless industry to influence your decision, you have taken on the responsibility of the health effects occurred by exposing these children to microwave radiation. The burden of proving this wireless technology is safe for children and the unborn, should be put upon the industry, not upon the public to prove that it is not safe.
All children have the right to access public education in a safe learning environment free of known carcinogens, especially when safer hard-wired connections to the Internet already exist.
If Health Canada is not going to protect of our children from these health risks, then who is?
Janis Hoffmann
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Comment 1-Safety Code 6 Needs Protect Against Non-Thermal Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Comment 2- Safety Code 6 Needs to Protect Against Non-Thermal Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 does not protect the public's health and does not protect against non-thermal effects as reported in the massive EPA report referenced in the attached showing EMF causes Cancer, Immune System Disorders, Reproductive Problems, Neurological Problems, and Cardiac dysfunction just as we are seeing now and is being reported by citizens being increasingly exposed to this innately harmful agent by all forms of wireless device.
The fact that recommendations by this report that additional studies be carried out that never were shows our governments disinterest in looking at health effects and protecting the public and instead accepting the influence of wireless companies. With billions of dollars being spent on expanding wireless infrastructure countrywide by government health Canada could spend one billion dollars funding research to ensure that this technology is safe especially as we expand this technology into environments where our most vulnerable reside such as hospitals, schools and residences.
Health Canada's reluctance to look at the problem of wireless health effects and fund studies is unacceptable as these vulnerable populations are summarily exposed.
Kevin Mottus
Tyler suffers from severe headaches accompanied with nausea, extreme fatigue and insomnia when exposed to commercial WiFi transmitters 6 hours a day 5 days a week in his school. It took two applications of Advil and Tylenol to stop him from crying from the pain inside his head, to finally stop hurting. After seeking medical help from specialists who could find nothing wrong with him, we found that all his symptoms disappeared when we took him out of the school environment. This was all the proof I needed.
Children with an environmental intolerance are medically known to be electromagnetic hypersensitive (EHS). EHS is caused by prolonged exposure to Wi-Fi and wireless devices emitting microwave, radio frequency radiation. Symptoms commonly associated with microwave sickness include headaches, fast heart rate, chest pain, dizziness, nausea, concentration and memory problems, anxiety, sleep disorders, extreme fatigue, skin rash, facial flushing, nosebleeds, ringing in the ears, and more.
The Canadian Human Rights recognizes EHS as a disability and says “Given the seriousness of the adverse effects and the availability of alternative technologies, a precautionary approach is warranted.”
School Boards across the country have decided for the parents without full disclosure or parental consent that it is now mandatory that all children will be exposed to microwave radiation that is emitting from commercial Wi-Fi transmitters and wireless devices. Health Canada has robbed parents of the right to protect their children from this irreversible and permanent damage done by the low frequency microwave radiation by not acknowledging the biological effects it has on the human body.
Parents must conform to the decision made by the School Boards or be dismissed from the School District. We are now driving 40 minutes a day to our third School District for a ‘Wi-Fi free’ school even though Tyler’s home school is only 2 blocks from my home.
By willfully closing your eyes to the thousands of peer reviewed non-industry funded studies by scientists and medical experts and allowing the wireless industry to influence your decision, you have taken on the responsibility of the health effects occurred by exposing these children to microwave radiation. The burden of proving this wireless technology is safe for children and the unborn, should be put upon the industry, not upon the public to prove that it is not safe.
All children have the right to access public education in a safe learning environment free of known carcinogens, especially when safer hard-wired connections to the Internet already exist.
If Health Canada is not going to protect of our children from these health risks, then who is?
Janis Hoffmann
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July 7, 2014
Dear Minister Ambrose: As Wellness Advocate for People and the Earth Biosphere, I have been watching for 20 years. During this time, I have created a bio-safe home, work and sleeping environment in our home for our family and young son, while he grew up during the unbridled proliferation many layers pulsed LRF microwaves. He chose himself self-directed studies |
at home, to avoid increasing LRF pulsed
microwaves at High School.
You have already received the body of my thoughts in a letter from Gina Shimoda which you have
received, therefore I will not repeat herein. For your convenience, here again is her letter.
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“I am writing this letter to you I response to Health Canada’s request for public input regarding Safety Code 6, Canada’s
safety standard for wireless technology, such as WiFi in schools, smart meters and cell towers.
I am very, very concerned regarding the use of WiFi in schools and in city, Edmonton, there is not ONE school that does not have WiFi and therefore parents do not have a choice regarding whether or not they want their child exposed to this type of radiation. Children and teachers who are electrosensitive have NO options.
What is most concerning is that there are many scientific studies that show adverse health effects at very low levels of WiFi radiation and these are not being considered.
I am very, very concerned regarding the use of WiFi in schools and in city, Edmonton, there is not ONE school that does not have WiFi and therefore parents do not have a choice regarding whether or not they want their child exposed to this type of radiation. Children and teachers who are electrosensitive have NO options.
What is most concerning is that there are many scientific studies that show adverse health effects at very low levels of WiFi radiation and these are not being considered.
To date, Health Canada has not followed international best practices in its updates of Safety Code 6 which includes; 1)
Listing the studies included and excluded [with reasons], evidence tables, grading of study quality to permit meaningful
public participation to ensure a “rigorous, transparent” review 2) For the weight of evidence, adapting and adopting a
framework such as that proposed by the US National Toxicology Program with complete transparency on assumptions,
interpretations and decisions 3) Review the original research publications, not just review articles 3) Ensure the panel has
the mandate, capability and resources to validate and further update the literature searches 4) For the first time, publish a
monograph from the SC6 update.
As well, the statement, “... Certain members of the general public may be more susceptible to harm from RF and microwave exposure", was removed from the 2009 update to Safety Code 6. As electrosensitivity is in the Canadian Human Rights Act, it should be put back in Safety Code 6.
Safety Code 6 was developed by exposing a 200 lb. male mannequin to 6 minutes of radiation. What scientific evidence is there that this provides safety for children and fetuses? How is that relevant to today’s constant exposure?
SC6 was created in 1979 to protect workers and visitors to federal buildings. What scientific proof is there to justify expanding this to cell towers and antennae? Smart meters? Wi-Fi? Cell and portable phones? Baby monitors? Game consoles? Tablets? Wireless: laptops, printers, mice, keyboards?
As well, the statement, “... Certain members of the general public may be more susceptible to harm from RF and microwave exposure", was removed from the 2009 update to Safety Code 6. As electrosensitivity is in the Canadian Human Rights Act, it should be put back in Safety Code 6.
Safety Code 6 was developed by exposing a 200 lb. male mannequin to 6 minutes of radiation. What scientific evidence is there that this provides safety for children and fetuses? How is that relevant to today’s constant exposure?
SC6 was created in 1979 to protect workers and visitors to federal buildings. What scientific proof is there to justify expanding this to cell towers and antennae? Smart meters? Wi-Fi? Cell and portable phones? Baby monitors? Game consoles? Tablets? Wireless: laptops, printers, mice, keyboards?
Research now shows that damage occurs at very low levels of radiation exposure, yet Safety Code 6 is based on the heating
of tissue. Biological damage occurring at these low levels MUST be considered! Recently I tested the WiFi reading under a
router in two local schools and the readings were double that of the measurements I took 100 yards from a local cell
tower. We would never want to live near a cell tower because of the well-established research linking them to leukemia’s
and other cancers, yet our children are exposed to much more than this when in school!!
Minister Ambrose, we need you to take action to protect our children. We do not want to have an epidemic of cancers and infertility 10 years from now. Please consider all the relevant research and ensure that the scientists that participate in these review panels are unbiased.”
Minister Ambrose, we need you to take action to protect our children. We do not want to have an epidemic of cancers and infertility 10 years from now. Please consider all the relevant research and ensure that the scientists that participate in these review panels are unbiased.”
Thank you for reading that which my feelings and thoughts, namely, Gina Shimoda’s succinct
analysis and perfected request for immediate bio-safety and protection for the children.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Idle LLB JD
Wellness Advocate for People and Earth’s Biosphere Self-Care Author
Marilyn Idle LLB JD
Wellness Advocate for People and Earth’s Biosphere Self-Care Author
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Comment 1-Safety Code 6 Needs Protect Against Non-Thermal Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 is inadequate because it is based
on the false assumption that biological effects can only result from
thermal heating. Thousands of studies have shown that there are
biological effects due to sub-thermal or non-thermal effects. In order
for Safety Code 6 to be protective it must protect against these
non-thermal effects as stated clearly in the attached letter from the US
EPA stating that current thermal guidelines are inadequate are not
protective from all effects and do not adequately protect special
populations such as children, pregnant women, and the elderly. See the
attached.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.aemc.gov.au/Media/docs/Market-Review-Submission-EPR0022---Helen-Weir---121009---Supporting-document-3-85f00cf2-edec-4fb3-9ce4-d3166da1e356-0.PDF
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Comment 2- Safety Code 6 Needs to Protect Against Non-Thermal Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 does not protect the public's health and does not protect against non-thermal effects as reported in the massive EPA report referenced in the attached showing EMF causes Cancer, Immune System Disorders, Reproductive Problems, Neurological Problems, and Cardiac dysfunction just as we are seeing now and is being reported by citizens being increasingly exposed to this innately harmful agent by all forms of wireless device.
The fact that recommendations by this report that additional studies be carried out that never were shows our governments disinterest in looking at health effects and protecting the public and instead accepting the influence of wireless companies. With billions of dollars being spent on expanding wireless infrastructure countrywide by government health Canada could spend one billion dollars funding research to ensure that this technology is safe especially as we expand this technology into environments where our most vulnerable reside such as hospitals, schools and residences.
Health Canada's reluctance to look at the problem of wireless health effects and fund studies is unacceptable as these vulnerable populations are summarily exposed.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/assets/docs_p_z
/results_of_emf_research_emf_questions_answers_booklet.pdf
/results_of_emf_research_emf_questions_answers_booklet.pdf
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Comment 3 - Safety Code 6 Needs to Protect Against Non-Thermal Effects
Dear
Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 is inadequate; it does not recognize or protect against non-thermal effects such as neurological effects classified Electro Hyper Sensitivity or EHS which is reported by more and more people as innocent citizens are RF radiated in their homes with smart meters and other wireless devices. See attached study from LSU showing that EHS does exist and the way we have been examining it has been faulty. See attached medical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of EHS from Austria where they have recognized and treated EHS for years.
Austria had wireless for years before Canada and the US as a society and we should learn and protect our population based on what they have learned rather than ignore it and learn by making our citizens suffer, lose their homes, jobs and communities often. People with EHS are like canaries in the coal mines letting us know that we are exposing ourselves to a harmful agent. We should protect EHS suffers and protect our society as a whole by minimizing our populations exposure to Radio Frequency Radiation exposure from all things wireless rather than maximizing it as we are now.
Kevin Mottus
Safety Code 6 is inadequate; it does not recognize or protect against non-thermal effects such as neurological effects classified Electro Hyper Sensitivity or EHS which is reported by more and more people as innocent citizens are RF radiated in their homes with smart meters and other wireless devices. See attached study from LSU showing that EHS does exist and the way we have been examining it has been faulty. See attached medical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of EHS from Austria where they have recognized and treated EHS for years.
Austria had wireless for years before Canada and the US as a society and we should learn and protect our population based on what they have learned rather than ignore it and learn by making our citizens suffer, lose their homes, jobs and communities often. People with EHS are like canaries in the coal mines letting us know that we are exposing ourselves to a harmful agent. We should protect EHS suffers and protect our society as a whole by minimizing our populations exposure to Radio Frequency Radiation exposure from all things wireless rather than maximizing it as we are now.
Kevin Mottus
http://andrewamarino.com/PDFs/165-IntJNeurosci2011.pdf
http://freiburger-appell-2012.info/media/EMF%20Guideline%20OAK-AG%20%202012%2003%2003.pdf
http://buildingbiology.ca/wd/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2007-Environmental_-Medicine_Evaluation_VDB.pdf
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Comment 4 - Safety Code 6 Needs to Protect Against Non-Thermal Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 does not reflect the latest research showing non-thermal biological health effects to children well below current standards. Health Canada and the US have funded a paucity of studies looking at health effects which is criminal given the billions of dollars being spent installing wireless infrastructure. Attached are two studies from Yale University and UCLA which is a replication of a study already done in Europe showing biological effects to infants with the exposure of mothers to cell phone radiation.
NONE OF THESE STUDIES LOOK AT THE EFFECT OF MULTIPLE EXPOSURES FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES (WIFI ROUTERS, CELL PHONES, TABLETS, WIFI IN AUTOMOBILES, WIRELESS CAR KEYS, WEARABLE WIRELESS DEVICES, WIRELESS VIDEO GAMES) WHICH MANY IN OUR SOCIETY ARE NOW EXPERIENCING IN AN INTENSE AND CONTINUOUS WAY INCREASING EXPOSURES EXPODENTIALLY AND MULTIPLYING THE NEGATIVE HEALTH IMPACTS.
IT IS TIME HEALTH CANADA STOP HIDING BEHIND THE PAUCITY OF RESEARCH BEING DONE AND THE INADEQUATE NATURE OF STUDIES BEING DONE AND PROTECT OUR CITIZENS IN A PREVENTATIVE AND PRECAUTIONARY WAY. HEALTH CANADA NEEDS TO WARN OUR CITIZENS OF POSSIBLE HEALTH EFFECTS, FUND MUCH MORE RESEARCH AND RESEARCH THAT LOOKS AT MULTIPLE EXPOSURES AND SET STANDARDS TO MINIMIZE RATHER THAN MAXIMIZE OUR EXPOSURE AS CURRENT STANDARDS DO BY NOT ACCOUNTING FOR NON-THERMAL EFFECTS.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PROTECTING THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF ALL OF OUR SOCIETY AND FUTURE GENERATIONS TO COME. THIS IS CRIMINAL GOVERNMENTAL NEGLIGENCE.
I join the Academy of Pediatricians and its 60,000 members of pediatricians in calling for the establishment of actual real safety standards for RF radiation exposure which adequately account for children and take into account non-thermal effects which have been well documented in thousands of studies-see attached letter.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/srep00312
http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2010/11/11/jech.2010.115402.abstract
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520941318
Comment 6 - Safety Code 6 Not Protecting Brain from Non-Thermal Biological Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 does not reflect the latest research showing non-thermal biological health effects to children well below current standards. Health Canada and the US have funded a paucity of studies looking at health effects which is criminal given the billions of dollars being spent installing wireless infrastructure. Attached are two studies from Yale University and UCLA which is a replication of a study already done in Europe showing biological effects to infants with the exposure of mothers to cell phone radiation.
NONE OF THESE STUDIES LOOK AT THE EFFECT OF MULTIPLE EXPOSURES FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES (WIFI ROUTERS, CELL PHONES, TABLETS, WIFI IN AUTOMOBILES, WIRELESS CAR KEYS, WEARABLE WIRELESS DEVICES, WIRELESS VIDEO GAMES) WHICH MANY IN OUR SOCIETY ARE NOW EXPERIENCING IN AN INTENSE AND CONTINUOUS WAY INCREASING EXPOSURES EXPODENTIALLY AND MULTIPLYING THE NEGATIVE HEALTH IMPACTS.
IT IS TIME HEALTH CANADA STOP HIDING BEHIND THE PAUCITY OF RESEARCH BEING DONE AND THE INADEQUATE NATURE OF STUDIES BEING DONE AND PROTECT OUR CITIZENS IN A PREVENTATIVE AND PRECAUTIONARY WAY. HEALTH CANADA NEEDS TO WARN OUR CITIZENS OF POSSIBLE HEALTH EFFECTS, FUND MUCH MORE RESEARCH AND RESEARCH THAT LOOKS AT MULTIPLE EXPOSURES AND SET STANDARDS TO MINIMIZE RATHER THAN MAXIMIZE OUR EXPOSURE AS CURRENT STANDARDS DO BY NOT ACCOUNTING FOR NON-THERMAL EFFECTS.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT PROTECTING THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF ALL OF OUR SOCIETY AND FUTURE GENERATIONS TO COME. THIS IS CRIMINAL GOVERNMENTAL NEGLIGENCE.
I join the Academy of Pediatricians and its 60,000 members of pediatricians in calling for the establishment of actual real safety standards for RF radiation exposure which adequately account for children and take into account non-thermal effects which have been well documented in thousands of studies-see attached letter.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/srep00312
http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2010/11/11/jech.2010.115402.abstract
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520941318
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Comment 5 - Safety Code 6 Not Protecting Brain from Non-Thermal Biological Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 needs to take into account non-thermal biological effects and clearly recommend wired versus wireless technology for internet and communication purposes to protect our people from harmful health effects due to Radio Frequency Radiation exposure. Thus far this has clearly been a case of financial and political might over doing what is right which is to protect our population from disease caused by EMF exposure.
How many more people have to develop tumors unnecessarily and suffer like dogs before we protect our people? We are striking down our young in the prime of their lives, effecting the productivity of our workers and effecting the health and well being of future generations. It is appropriate to look at individual stories of disease because with our government refusing to do adequate research in the area of health effects associated with RF radiation exposure, we become the research study, a massive human experiment into the heath effects from RF radiation as we recklessly expose our population more intensely.
Already Lebron James had a tumor removed from his salivary gland where he holds his cell phone-see attached. Jim Kelly NFL Quarterback is dying right now from a tumor on his jaw where he holds his cell phone. Singer Sheryl Crow had a brain tumor removed and attributed it to her cell phone use. Actor Mark Ruffalo had a brain tumor removed that almost killed him.
These are all young people who are healthy other than the tumors they have developed due to exposure. But thousands upon thousands of lesser known innocent citizens are developing brain, head, neck, salivary gland, eye, throat and chest tumors due to their cell phone use and thousands of others are developing neurological disorder called ElectroHypersensitivity. How many more innnocenet people have to suffer unnecessarily and often die before we protect our people? Just ask Steve Jobs, Johnnie Cochran or Senator Edward Kennedy if wireless is safe. The attached studies from Hardell in Sweden prove that cell phones are causing cancer. Sweden has used wireless decades before we have as a society. We should learn from their experience rather than turning a blind eye to what they are proving and what we are suffering as a society.
TIME FOR HEALTH CANADA TO LISTEN TO WHAT HARDELL HAS PROVEN AND WHAT THOUSANDS ACROSS CANADA ARE EXPERIENCING IN TERMS OF HEALTH EFFECTS FROM WIRELESS. TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT WE REALLY HAVE.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2009/10/lebron_james_remembers_his_spr.html
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 needs to take into account non-thermal biological effects and clearly recommend wired versus wireless technology for internet and communication purposes to protect our people from harmful health effects due to Radio Frequency Radiation exposure. Thus far this has clearly been a case of financial and political might over doing what is right which is to protect our population from disease caused by EMF exposure.
How many more people have to develop tumors unnecessarily and suffer like dogs before we protect our people? We are striking down our young in the prime of their lives, effecting the productivity of our workers and effecting the health and well being of future generations. It is appropriate to look at individual stories of disease because with our government refusing to do adequate research in the area of health effects associated with RF radiation exposure, we become the research study, a massive human experiment into the heath effects from RF radiation as we recklessly expose our population more intensely.
Already Lebron James had a tumor removed from his salivary gland where he holds his cell phone-see attached. Jim Kelly NFL Quarterback is dying right now from a tumor on his jaw where he holds his cell phone. Singer Sheryl Crow had a brain tumor removed and attributed it to her cell phone use. Actor Mark Ruffalo had a brain tumor removed that almost killed him.
These are all young people who are healthy other than the tumors they have developed due to exposure. But thousands upon thousands of lesser known innocent citizens are developing brain, head, neck, salivary gland, eye, throat and chest tumors due to their cell phone use and thousands of others are developing neurological disorder called ElectroHypersensitivity. How many more innnocenet people have to suffer unnecessarily and often die before we protect our people? Just ask Steve Jobs, Johnnie Cochran or Senator Edward Kennedy if wireless is safe. The attached studies from Hardell in Sweden prove that cell phones are causing cancer. Sweden has used wireless decades before we have as a society. We should learn from their experience rather than turning a blind eye to what they are proving and what we are suffering as a society.
TIME FOR HEALTH CANADA TO LISTEN TO WHAT HARDELL HAS PROVEN AND WHAT THOUSANDS ACROSS CANADA ARE EXPERIENCING IN TERMS OF HEALTH EFFECTS FROM WIRELESS. TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT WE REALLY HAVE.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2009/10/lebron_james_remembers_his_spr.html
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9336790/ex-buffalo-bills-qb-jim-kelly-battling-cancer-jaw
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20628596,00.html
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520958095
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Cell-and-Cordless-Phones-risk-for-cancer.pdf
http://www.mast-victims.org/resources/docs/hardell-meta-analysis-2008.pdf
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20628596,00.html
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520958095
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Cell-and-Cordless-Phones-risk-for-cancer.pdf
http://www.mast-victims.org/resources/docs/hardell-meta-analysis-2008.pdf
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Comment 6 - Safety Code 6 Not Protecting Brain from Non-Thermal Biological Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 needs to be updated to protect against non-thermal effects from RF radiation exposure as reported by the US Naval Medical Research Institute which cites 2300 studies of non-thermal biological effects due to RF radiation exposure-see attached. Health Canada's assertion that there is not medical evidence of non-thermal effects simply is not true.
Health Canada and the US have known about these non-thermal health effects for decades and have allowed a wireless industry to grow around this innately harmful technology and now health Canada is allowing for the intense expansion of these exposures in our homes, workplace, hospital and schools where our most vulnerable reside, work and play. This must stop; we need to move toward wired connections and fiber optics which is superior to wireless in terms of speed, security and safety it affords from health effects as stated by the Los Angeles Unified School District in their 2009 resolution to protect children in schools.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Glaser_1972_shortened.pdf
http://www.emrpolicy.org/news/headlines/26may09_lausd_resolution.pdf
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Comment 7 - Safety Code 6 Not Protecting from Class 2A Carcinogen
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 needs to account for the carcinogenic nature of RF radiation emitted by all wireless devices and infrastructure. When the World Health Organization classified the microwaves used by wireless as a Class 2B Carcinogen, they did not differentiate the source since to our cells it does not matter the source. The study focused on by the working group classified heavy users as using wireless 30 mins a day. I do not know anyone who only uses wireless 30 mins a day. With continuous exposures from WiFi, wireless computers and tablets this definition is particularly unrealistic, inappropriate and inaccurate.
By focusing on studies defining heavy users as 30 mins a day we mute by averaging the effect to real heavy users using wireless 3-6 hours a day. Children in our new wireless classrooms will be part of this real heavy user group that is not accounted for and has not been accounted for by other studies. By avoiding examining real heavy users of 3-6 hours a day, we are avoiding the issue of health effects altogether and Health Canada really has no right to claim that this technology is safe especially for real heavy users which are children will now be a part. This is negligent and irresponsible and shows the arrogant, pompous and dangerous way this technology has been rolled out and expanded. It is time Health Canada stops hiding by this type of unrealistic and inadequate research which hides the real human cost and carcinogenic impact of this technology.
Please view this video clip of Anthony Miller one of the WHO scientist stating publicly that the WHO classification is already very much out of date and should be increased to a Class 2A carcinogen given the latest studies of nonthermal effects which Health Canada still continues to deny even exist which places wireless microwaves RF radiation amongst a group of very dangerous agents and certainly not ones that we should be pervasively and thoroughly exposing our population to as we are now exposing our population to the microwaves used by wireless.
Dr. Anthony B Miller, WHO scientist, presented to Toronto Councilors at the Government Management Committee stating wireless radiation would be classified 2A (probable) carcinogen if evaluated today and recommends prudent avoidance.
http://www.c4st.org/dr-anthony-miller (4 min video presentation)
Kevin Mottus
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
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Comment 8 - Safety Code 6 Not Protecting Health Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 needs to be updated to protect against the long term, continuous, harmful biological effects from WiFi sources. Safety Code 6 was never intended to protect against long term continuous exposures like WiFi and Cell Tower emissions. I am sick and tired of people ignorantly stating that there is no health impact due to WiFi because its lack of power compared to cell phones. Attached are 10 pages of studies from around the world showing harmful medical effects due to ordinary WiFi.
The reality is the continuous nature of WiFi is worse from a cellular level because these continuous exposures do not give our cells time to rest, recover and repair and thus lead to a host of medical issues over time. As shown by Mild and Hardell attached, the biological effects from RF radiation exposure are cumulative and increasingly detrimental over time. As well as not accounting for the effect of multiple exposures at once, Safety Code 6 does not account for the detrimental effect of continuous and long term exposure. Safety Code 6 needs to be updated to account for these harmful long term exposures.
To allow for WiFi in airplanes shows our government's blatant disregard for the science and the health of our citizens. It is absurd that we must turn off our cell phones when taking off in an airplane for fear that our devices will interfere with the instrumentation of the airplane and then not think that it will not have a detrimental effect on the people sitting right next to us. To compound the detrimental effect of cell phone use in airplanes now we are going to allow for WiFi on airplanes encouraging passengers to use more devices in close proximity to other passengers? This blatant disregard for our health is criminal.
I only hope you members of health Canada are held responsible for the suffering and damage to our health you are causing in the near future. Ban wireless on airplanes. Lower Safety Code 6 to .00001U/Wcm2 to protect against health effects due to WiFi.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Kesari%20KK%22[Author]
http://www.avaate.org/IMG/pdf/Pooled_analysis_of_case-control_studies_on_malignant_brain_tumours_and_the_use_of_mobile_phone.pdf
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Comment 9 - Safety Code 6 Not Reflective Unbiased Research
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
In reevaluating Safety Code 6, you cannot discuss a review of the literature of health effects associated with RF radiation exposure from wireless devices without discussing the tremendous bias and interference with research by the wireless industry. Joel Moskowitz from UC Berkeley School of Public Health quotes a NY Times article which quotes research by Henry Lai showing that the vast majority of research funded by the wireless industry itself does not show health effects while the vast majority of research funded by non-industry sources shows health effects from exposure to RF radiation from wireless sources-see attached quote. Ketchum in the attached article describes how the wireless industry has used its influence to control the debate and the research regarding health effects caused by wireless.
When the Italian Supreme Court reviewed the research of health effects from RF radiation taking into account the funding source and the quality of research they ruled that cell phones can cause cancer. IT IS TIME HEALTH CANADA TAKES THE SAME CRITICAL LOOK AT THE RESEARCH NOT JUST IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF STUDIES BUT THE QUALITY, DESIGN AND DIRECT AND INDIRECT FUNDING SOURCE OF THE RESEARCH IN DETERMINING THE DANGER TO PUBLIC HEALTH FROM RF RADIATION EXPOSURE-SEE ATTACHED REFERENCE TO ITALIAN SUPREME COURT FINDINGS.
George Carlo in the attached article outlines how the wireless industry in the US has avoided litigation in the past and kept the truth from the public that RF Radiation from wireless causes cancer. He further outlines the wireless industry's cover up of the carcinogenic hazard of cell phones in his book: Cell Phones: Invisible Hazard in the Wireless Age. The wireless industry using their financial might they have kept legal precedents from being set and kept the truth from being revealed meanwhile thousands of young innocent people die.
Health Canada sits by as this modern day Holocaust is carried out and by not revealing the truth to the public Health Canada is as guilt of causing these deaths as the Wireless industry. Allowing and facilitating the expansion of a technology that causes Cancer and other serious diseases is true evil and history will show that Health Canada rather than standing up and protecting its citizens had a significant hand in carrying out this genocide.
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
In reevaluating Safety Code 6, you cannot discuss a review of the literature of health effects associated with RF radiation exposure from wireless devices without discussing the tremendous bias and interference with research by the wireless industry. Joel Moskowitz from UC Berkeley School of Public Health quotes a NY Times article which quotes research by Henry Lai showing that the vast majority of research funded by the wireless industry itself does not show health effects while the vast majority of research funded by non-industry sources shows health effects from exposure to RF radiation from wireless sources-see attached quote. Ketchum in the attached article describes how the wireless industry has used its influence to control the debate and the research regarding health effects caused by wireless.
When the Italian Supreme Court reviewed the research of health effects from RF radiation taking into account the funding source and the quality of research they ruled that cell phones can cause cancer. IT IS TIME HEALTH CANADA TAKES THE SAME CRITICAL LOOK AT THE RESEARCH NOT JUST IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF STUDIES BUT THE QUALITY, DESIGN AND DIRECT AND INDIRECT FUNDING SOURCE OF THE RESEARCH IN DETERMINING THE DANGER TO PUBLIC HEALTH FROM RF RADIATION EXPOSURE-SEE ATTACHED REFERENCE TO ITALIAN SUPREME COURT FINDINGS.
George Carlo in the attached article outlines how the wireless industry in the US has avoided litigation in the past and kept the truth from the public that RF Radiation from wireless causes cancer. He further outlines the wireless industry's cover up of the carcinogenic hazard of cell phones in his book: Cell Phones: Invisible Hazard in the Wireless Age. The wireless industry using their financial might they have kept legal precedents from being set and kept the truth from being revealed meanwhile thousands of young innocent people die.
Health Canada sits by as this modern day Holocaust is carried out and by not revealing the truth to the public Health Canada is as guilt of causing these deaths as the Wireless industry. Allowing and facilitating the expansion of a technology that causes Cancer and other serious diseases is true evil and history will show that Health Canada rather than standing up and protecting its citizens had a significant hand in carrying out this genocide.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/business/14digi.html?_r=0
http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gadgets/201002/warning-cell-phone-radiation
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/19/cellphone-use-linked-to-brain-tumour/
http://cutcat.com/item_images/Cell%20Phones%20Carlo.pdf
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Comment 10 - Safety Code 6 Not Looking Work Dr. Cherry
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Health Canada should take into account the cutting edge research of Dr Neil Cherry regarding health effects from RF radiation from all wireless devices. He is no longer alive but Health Canada should review his accurate, predictive and breakthrough research-See attached studies.
To not take Dr Cherry's research into account is to allow as predicted by the European Union in the attached an epidemic of disease which will surpass asbestos and tobacco due to EMF's ability to cause tumors at 10-15 years of single source exposure compared with tobacco's 30 years.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18762027/Dr-Neil-Cherry-Evidence-That-Electromagnetic-Radiation-is-Genotoxic-2002
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6473560/Dr-Neil-Cherry-Evidence-EMF-Harmful
http://www.stayonthetruth.com/resources/Neil_Cherry/90_m2_EMR_Evidence_That_EMR-EMF_is_genotoxic.pdf
http://www.stayonthetruth.com/resources/Neil_Cherry/90_m3_EMR_Police_brain_tumor_report_02.pdf
http://www.stayonthetruth.com/resources/Neil_Cherry/90_s2_EMR_Brain_cancer_paper09-02.pdf
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/Council_Europe_Report_The_potential_dangers_of_electromagnetic_fields_and_their_effect_on_
the_environment_06_05_2011.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/business/14digi.html?_r=0
http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gadgets/201002/warning-cell-phone-radiation
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/19/cellphone-use-linked-to-brain-tumour/
http://cutcat.com/item_images/Cell%20Phones%20Carlo.pdf
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Comment 10 - Safety Code 6 Not Looking Work Dr. Cherry
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Health Canada should take into account the cutting edge research of Dr Neil Cherry regarding health effects from RF radiation from all wireless devices. He is no longer alive but Health Canada should review his accurate, predictive and breakthrough research-See attached studies.
To not take Dr Cherry's research into account is to allow as predicted by the European Union in the attached an epidemic of disease which will surpass asbestos and tobacco due to EMF's ability to cause tumors at 10-15 years of single source exposure compared with tobacco's 30 years.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18762027/Dr-Neil-Cherry-Evidence-That-Electromagnetic-Radiation-is-Genotoxic-2002
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6473560/Dr-Neil-Cherry-Evidence-EMF-Harmful
http://www.stayonthetruth.com/resources/Neil_Cherry/90_m2_EMR_Evidence_That_EMR-EMF_is_genotoxic.pdf
http://www.stayonthetruth.com/resources/Neil_Cherry/90_m3_EMR_Police_brain_tumor_report_02.pdf
http://www.stayonthetruth.com/resources/Neil_Cherry/90_s2_EMR_Brain_cancer_paper09-02.pdf
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/Council_Europe_Report_The_potential_dangers_of_electromagnetic_fields_and_their_effect_on_
the_environment_06_05_2011.pdf
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Comment 11 - Safety Code 6 Protecting Children
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 is not protecting against Reproductive Harm from RF radiation exposure from wireless. Health Canada should immediately warn the public of reproductive harm from wireless. To not do so is completely irresponsible as our next generations are harmed by our reckless use of wireless. There are many studies showing that male sperm are damaged, mutated and killed by RF radiation exposure from wireless-see attached.
The ovaries of women are particularly sensitive to being microwaved by wireless. Dr Martha Herbert, Pediatric Neurologist from Harvard believes that EMF and RF maybe the environmental trigger for our explosive and devastating increase in Autism-see her two attached studies showing the process of changes in the brain due to EMF exposure and the changes associated with Autism being parallel. She surmises that the chances that the two are not related is highly unlikely. We see an increased incidence of Autism in high tech areas where parents working in high tech companies have higher levels of EMF exposure. Health Canada must act to protect our children as we stupidly increase our children's exposure to RF radiation with our new wireless classrooms and in our homes with smart meters.
Does Health Canada not care about our children? Are we willing to gamble with the health of our children with so many studies showing health effects? Has Health Canada been corrupted by the influence and resources of the invested wireless industry? Are you going to just believe all of the information you are being spoon fed by the industry with the public's health at stake. Shouldn't we favor prevention and examination of studies showing damaging health effects with the health of our children at stake. We cannot afford to wait the decades it took us to realize that asbestos and smoking were carcinogenic with Health Canada allowing for exposures to our population to increase so quickly and time it takes for tumor growth due to RF radiation being so relatively short. Health Canada must act to protect our children.
Kevin Mottus
https://www.andrologyaustralia.org/journal-articles/use-of-laptop-computers-connected-to-internet-through-wi-fi-decreases-human-sperm-motility-and-increases-sperm-dna-fragmentati
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520958030
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520958031
http://www.bioinitiative.org/report/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec20_2012_Findings_in_Autism.pdf
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-011-1302-1#page-1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrVNdbT7hb4 (Wi-Fi Dangers, BBC Part I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewdikNQhjUo (Wi-Fi Dangers, BBC Part II)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN7VetsCR2I (Canadian newscast covering wifi)
Comment 15 - Safety Code 6 Based on Research Suppressed by Industry
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Comment 18 - Safety Code 6 US Dept Interior Knows Insufficient
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Dear Minister Ambrose,
It is unfortunate you were not able to join us at our conference on July 9th. Thank you for sending your well wishes. I would welcome the opportunity to meet with you to review the information presented in either Calgary or Ottawa, whichever is convenient.
While offering public input on Safety Code 6 for the first time is a considerable improvement, we believe there are several underlying issues with the current update for Safety Code 6. Under separate letters, the following submissions have been made from various sources.
Minister, for over two years now, C4ST has expressed concerns over the process that Health Canada is using to update Safety Code 6. The current circumscribed Health Canada evidence base allegedly supporting draft Safety Code 6 is lacking a great deal of information, demonstrating the potential for significant harm from low levels of radiofrequency/microwave radiation. It is necessary to follow modern, established, international best practices to achieve a comprehensive, transparent and systematic review in environmental health.
In the absence of a complete evidence base, it is impossible that Health Canada has founded Safety Code 6 on a “weight of evidence” as claimed. Given the absence of studies showing harm, and suggestions of bias in selection of evidence, we believe that Safety Code 6 as it stands will not protect the health of Canadians.
Minister, projections are that there will be 50 billion wireless devices worldwide by 2019 which equates to over 20 devices per Canadian home. If history repeats, that is about the time of the next update for Safety Code 6. Currently, China, Russia, Italy and Switzerland have better wireless radiation safety standards than Canada. The time is now to invest the proper resources and ensure that Safety Code 6 offers the protection Canadians require and expect.
We very much appreciate you taking the time to address and respond to our concerns. Like us, we know that you want to ensure that Canadians are kept safe and healthy, and we hope that we can work with you to meet that common objective.
Sincerely,
Frank Clegg
CEO, Canadians for Safe Technology
cc: Mr. Terence Young, MP Oakville
Comment 11 - Safety Code 6 Protecting Children
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 is not protecting against Reproductive Harm from RF radiation exposure from wireless. Health Canada should immediately warn the public of reproductive harm from wireless. To not do so is completely irresponsible as our next generations are harmed by our reckless use of wireless. There are many studies showing that male sperm are damaged, mutated and killed by RF radiation exposure from wireless-see attached.
The ovaries of women are particularly sensitive to being microwaved by wireless. Dr Martha Herbert, Pediatric Neurologist from Harvard believes that EMF and RF maybe the environmental trigger for our explosive and devastating increase in Autism-see her two attached studies showing the process of changes in the brain due to EMF exposure and the changes associated with Autism being parallel. She surmises that the chances that the two are not related is highly unlikely. We see an increased incidence of Autism in high tech areas where parents working in high tech companies have higher levels of EMF exposure. Health Canada must act to protect our children as we stupidly increase our children's exposure to RF radiation with our new wireless classrooms and in our homes with smart meters.
Does Health Canada not care about our children? Are we willing to gamble with the health of our children with so many studies showing health effects? Has Health Canada been corrupted by the influence and resources of the invested wireless industry? Are you going to just believe all of the information you are being spoon fed by the industry with the public's health at stake. Shouldn't we favor prevention and examination of studies showing damaging health effects with the health of our children at stake. We cannot afford to wait the decades it took us to realize that asbestos and smoking were carcinogenic with Health Canada allowing for exposures to our population to increase so quickly and time it takes for tumor growth due to RF radiation being so relatively short. Health Canada must act to protect our children.
Kevin Mottus
https://www.andrologyaustralia.org/journal-articles/use-of-laptop-computers-connected-to-internet-through-wi-fi-decreases-human-sperm-motility-and-increases-sperm-dna-fragmentati
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520958030
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520958031
http://www.bioinitiative.org/report/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec20_2012_Findings_in_Autism.pdf
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-011-1302-1#page-1
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Comment 12 - Safety Code 6 Not Real Safety Standard
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 does not protect children. How can health Canada ignore the peer reviewed studies in the Bioinitiative Report found at bioinitiative.org which reviewed 1800 studies for its 2012 update and reviewed an additional 2000 studies for its initial report in 2008.
The editor of this report Dr David Carpenter MD, expert in health effects associated with EMF exposure recommends a exposure level of .0001u/wcm2 to protect our children from health effects as well as to avoid increased rates of reproductive harm, cancer, cardiac disorders, neurological disorders and immune system disorders-see conclusions attached. Belgium has taken action to protect their children by banning cell phones from all children and preventing wireless from entering schools-see attached. The European Union has recommended a ban of all wireless from their classrooms-see page 3 of the attached.
IT IS TIME HEALTH CANADA WARNS PARENTS AND PROTECTS CANADIAN CHILDREN AS WELL by lowering the accepted exposure level to .0001u/wcm2 and warning parents clearly and immediately of possible health effects. It is time Health Canada does not act like an extension of the wireless industry and serves to protect the public's health with the establishment of real safety standards meeting the criteria of a safety standard rather than just a guideline as we have now. It is a sad ridiculous joke for Health Canada to say our safety is protected without actual safety standards in place.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.bioinitiative.org/conclusions/
http://www.saferemr.com/2013/10/belgium-adopts-new-regulations-to.html
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/Council_Europe_Report_The_potential_dangers_of_electromagnetic_fields_and_their_effect_on_
the_environment_06_05_2011.pdf
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Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 does not protect children. How can health Canada ignore the peer reviewed studies in the Bioinitiative Report found at bioinitiative.org which reviewed 1800 studies for its 2012 update and reviewed an additional 2000 studies for its initial report in 2008.
The editor of this report Dr David Carpenter MD, expert in health effects associated with EMF exposure recommends a exposure level of .0001u/wcm2 to protect our children from health effects as well as to avoid increased rates of reproductive harm, cancer, cardiac disorders, neurological disorders and immune system disorders-see conclusions attached. Belgium has taken action to protect their children by banning cell phones from all children and preventing wireless from entering schools-see attached. The European Union has recommended a ban of all wireless from their classrooms-see page 3 of the attached.
IT IS TIME HEALTH CANADA WARNS PARENTS AND PROTECTS CANADIAN CHILDREN AS WELL by lowering the accepted exposure level to .0001u/wcm2 and warning parents clearly and immediately of possible health effects. It is time Health Canada does not act like an extension of the wireless industry and serves to protect the public's health with the establishment of real safety standards meeting the criteria of a safety standard rather than just a guideline as we have now. It is a sad ridiculous joke for Health Canada to say our safety is protected without actual safety standards in place.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.bioinitiative.org/conclusions/
http://www.saferemr.com/2013/10/belgium-adopts-new-regulations-to.html
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/Council_Europe_Report_The_potential_dangers_of_electromagnetic_fields_and_their_effect_on_
the_environment_06_05_2011.pdf
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Comment 13 - Safety Code 6 Not Preventing DNA Damage
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Health Canada needs to revise Safety Code 6 to .0001u/wcm2 to protect against DNA damage and cellular dysfunction caused by RF radiation exposure as seen by Dr Henry Lai and Andrew Goldsworthy-see attached. Health Canada needs to join other governmental bodies around the world taking action to protect its population from this harmful agent.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.voltimum.it/files/it/others/8/200403115810campi_elettromagnetici.pdf
http://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/papers/goldsworthy_bio_weak_em_07.pdf
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Health Canada needs to revise Safety Code 6 to .0001u/wcm2 to protect against DNA damage and cellular dysfunction caused by RF radiation exposure as seen by Dr Henry Lai and Andrew Goldsworthy-see attached. Health Canada needs to join other governmental bodies around the world taking action to protect its population from this harmful agent.
Kevin Mottus
http://www.voltimum.it/files/it/others/8/200403115810campi_elettromagnetici.pdf
http://www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/papers/goldsworthy_bio_weak_em_07.pdf
http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Biol-Effects-EMFs-2012-NZ2.pdf
http://www.kawarthasafetechnology.org/uploads/1/0/0/8/10084439/letter_to_board_of_health.pdf
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Comment 14 - Safety Code 6 Act to Prevent Suffering
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
It disgusts me how Health Canada and the US Government hide behind research technicalities, refuse to sufficiently fund research into wireless health effects, and ignore the suffering of their people from increased rates of cancer, cardiac problems, reduced fertility and immune system disorders due to RF radiation exposure.
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
It disgusts me how Health Canada and the US Government hide behind research technicalities, refuse to sufficiently fund research into wireless health effects, and ignore the suffering of their people from increased rates of cancer, cardiac problems, reduced fertility and immune system disorders due to RF radiation exposure.
Health Canada and the US put financial and economic
gain over people's health. Wireless is being equivocated with progress
when this is the farthest thing from the truth as we set the health of
our planet's population back decades. Wireless is being sold as green
technology when in reality the electrosmog it creates represents the
worst environmental and public health disaster in decades.
The
avoidance, cover up and manipulation of the research and the lack of
public policy which protects our people rather than promotes expansion
of this technology is deplorable.
This is widespread corporate murder with wireless companies using their money to racketeer themselves into a position that allows them to continue to murder and murder even more. Health Canada needs to wake up and be held responsible for the suffering you are causing. Even when US Vice President Biden's son Beau Biden gets a tumor behind his ear the most common place to get a tumor from your cell phone the US Government moves to not talk about it and cover it up as his father and President Obama aggressively expand wireless into our classrooms.
Health Canada should call the US out on the cover up and establish Safety Code 6 standards which clearly send a message of .0001u/wcm2 which will encourage our society to use wired versus wireless technology which is innately more safe than wireless. See the attached news reports of real people suffering terribly and often dying from wireless radiation exposure. It is time we act now to protect our young people.
Kevin Mottus This is widespread corporate murder with wireless companies using their money to racketeer themselves into a position that allows them to continue to murder and murder even more. Health Canada needs to wake up and be held responsible for the suffering you are causing. Even when US Vice President Biden's son Beau Biden gets a tumor behind his ear the most common place to get a tumor from your cell phone the US Government moves to not talk about it and cover it up as his father and President Obama aggressively expand wireless into our classrooms.
Health Canada should call the US out on the cover up and establish Safety Code 6 standards which clearly send a message of .0001u/wcm2 which will encourage our society to use wired versus wireless technology which is innately more safe than wireless. See the attached news reports of real people suffering terribly and often dying from wireless radiation exposure. It is time we act now to protect our young people.
http://www.wdde.org/53405-ag-biden-offers-health-issues-ag-budget-hearing
Dangers of Wireless-Cell Phones for Kids
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbOpY9kHXc
Cell Phone Wake Up Call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq340oQPfK4
KRON TV-Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors From a
Brain Tumor Survivor and Olympic Hopeful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74tpyQbtsog&feature=c4-overview&list=UUHWAxNn25dBGyUOHmDRKELw
Cell Phone Executive Gets Brain Tumor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgTpVIWBf0
Young Girls getting tumors where carry cell in
bra
http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/special-report-keeping-cell-phone-in-bra-may-lead/vhPF8/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrVNdbT7hb4 (Wi-Fi Dangers, BBC Part I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewdikNQhjUo (Wi-Fi Dangers, BBC Part II)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN7VetsCR2I (Canadian newscast covering wifi)
Doctors weigh in on dangers of Wi-Fi signal
exposure -TV newsvideo
http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/23465182/doctors-weigh-on-the-dangers-of-wi-fi-signal-exposure
Dangers
WiFi in the Schools (letters from experts)
http://www.wifiinschools.com/lausd-testimony.html
Dangers WiFi In
Schools
Wifi In Schools Vermont:
News Report
Virginia-Electrosensitivity Wireless Refugees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature= player_embedded&v=N8SelMsICrE
Dangers
of Smart meters:
http://www.wusa9.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=2176584039001&odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|featured
Dr.
Anthony B Miller, WHO scientist, presented to Toronto Councilors at the
Government Management Committee stating wireless radiation would be classified
2A (probable) carcinogen if evaluated today and recommends prudent avoidance.
http://www.c4st.org/dr-anthony-miller (4 min video presentation)
Pathophysiology. 2013Apr;20(2):123-9.doi: 10.1016/j.pathophys.2013.03.001.Epub
2013
May 7 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23664410
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May 7 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23664410
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Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Health Canada is cooperating with
the US in suppressing information regarding harmful health effects from
wireless. See Press Release Below from Joel Moskovitz at UC Berkeley
School of Public Health.
A wireless industry
publication alleged that Mr. Wheeler suppressed and biased the research from
the nation’s largest mobile phone health research project.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) - May 28, 2013 - BERKELEY,
Calif. -- Tom Wheeler, head of the CTIA from 1992-2004, has been
nominated to become the next Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).
RCR Wireless News, an industry publication, alleged that Mr. Wheeler suppressed and biased the research from the nation’s largest mobile phone health research project while he served as head of the CTIA, the wireless telecommunications industry association.
Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. was a 6-year, $28 million research program funded by mobile phone carriers and manufacturers from 1993 to 1999.
The strategies allegedly used by the CTIA were similar to those employed by the Tobacco Industry for many decades to downplay the dangers of cigarette smoking. After six years of litigation by the Department of Justice, a Federal court finally found the Tobacco Industry guilty of fraud and racketeering in 2006.
How long will it take before the curtain is pulled back on the Wireless Industry’s longstanding strategy to co-opt the scientific community, and suppress and bias the research on the health effects of cell phone and wireless radiation?
RCR Wireless News has been reporting about the wireless and mobile phone industry for industry executives since 1981. It is the official show daily for some of the industry's biggest trade shows including the CTIA. (4)
For a summary of the allegations against Mr. Wheeler according to RCR Wireless News, see http://saferemr.com/.
Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Electromagnetic Radiation Safety
Website: http://saferemr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SaferEMR
News Releases: http://pressroom.prlog.org/jmm716
Twitter: @berkeleyprc
RCR Wireless News, an industry publication, alleged that Mr. Wheeler suppressed and biased the research from the nation’s largest mobile phone health research project while he served as head of the CTIA, the wireless telecommunications industry association.
Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. was a 6-year, $28 million research program funded by mobile phone carriers and manufacturers from 1993 to 1999.
The strategies allegedly used by the CTIA were similar to those employed by the Tobacco Industry for many decades to downplay the dangers of cigarette smoking. After six years of litigation by the Department of Justice, a Federal court finally found the Tobacco Industry guilty of fraud and racketeering in 2006.
How long will it take before the curtain is pulled back on the Wireless Industry’s longstanding strategy to co-opt the scientific community, and suppress and bias the research on the health effects of cell phone and wireless radiation?
RCR Wireless News has been reporting about the wireless and mobile phone industry for industry executives since 1981. It is the official show daily for some of the industry's biggest trade shows including the CTIA. (4)
For a summary of the allegations against Mr. Wheeler according to RCR Wireless News, see http://saferemr.com/.
Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Electromagnetic Radiation Safety
Website: http://saferemr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SaferEMR
News Releases: http://pressroom.prlog.org/jmm716
Twitter: @berkeleyprc
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/10/29/tom-wheeler-confirmed-fcc-chairman/3309333/
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Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
The Us Dept of the Interior knows what Health Canada is afraid to admit that the microwaves from wireless cell towers are killing wildlife and think about what that means to our citizens and those holding wireless microwave transmitters close to their bodies and not great distances like with cell towers. See below how insufficient and inadequate safety code 6 and the FCC guidelines are in protecting the public's health.
Kevin Mottus
Dept. of Interior attacks FCC regarding Adverse Impact of Cell Tower Radiation on Wildlife
"the electromagnetic radiation standards used by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) continue to be based on thermal heating, a
criterion now nearly 30 years out of date and inapplicable today."
http://www.saferemr.com/2014/03/dept-of-interior-attacks-...
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Comment 19 - Safety Code 6 Needs to Establish Real Safety Standards
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
http://www.saferemr.com/2013/11/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about.html
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Comment 20 - Safety Code 6 Needs to Establish Real Safety Standards
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Website: http://www.saferemr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SaferEMRSaferEMR
(1) Bin Lv, Zhiye Chen, Tongning Wu, Qing Shao, Duo Yan, Lin Ma, Ke Lu, Yi Xie. The alteration of spontaneous low frequency oscillations caused by acute electromagnetic fields exposure. Clinical Neurophysiology. Published online 4 September 2013.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24012322
(2) Volkow ND, Tomasi D, Wang GJ, Vaska P, Fowler JS, Telang F, Alexoff D, Logan J, Wong C. Effects of cell phone radiofrequency signal exposure on brain glucose metabolism. JAMA. 2011 Feb 23;305(8):808-13. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.186.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184892/
Photo:
http://www.prlog.org/12215083/1
Comment 21 - Safety Code 6 Needs to Establish Real Safety Standards
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
http://www.prlog.org/11978228-health-experts-caution-about-smart-meters.html
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Comment 22-Safety Code 6-EMF Causing Cancer
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
K, Sechman A, Nieckarz Z. Plasma thyroid hormones and corticosterone levels in blood of chicken embryos and post hatch chickens exposed during incubation to 1800 MHz electromagnetic field. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 2014 Jan 31. [Epub ahead of print]
http://1.usa.gov/1e4do9w
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Jin YB, Choi HD, Kim BC, Pack JK, Kim N, Lee YS.Effects of simultaneous combined exposure to CDMA and WCDMA electromagnetic fields on serum hormone levels in rats. J Radiat Res. 2013 May;54(3):430-7. doi: 10.1093/jrr/rrs120. Epub 2012 Dec 13.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23239176
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Dimida A, Ferrarini E, Agretti P, De Marco G, Grasso L, Martinelli M, Longo I, Giulietti D, Ricci A, Galimberti M, Siervo B, Licitra G, Francia F, Pinchera A, Vitti P, Tonacchera M. Electric and magnetic fields do not modify the biochemical properties of FRTL-5 cells. J Endocrinol Invest. 2011 Mar;34(3):185-9. doi: 10.3275/7107. Epub 2010 Jun 11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20543553
---
Esmekaya MA, Seyhan N, Ömeroglu S. Pulse modulated 900 MHz radiation induces hypothyroidism and apoptosis in thyroid cells: a light, electron microscopy and immunohistochemical study. Int J Radiat Biol. 2010 Dec;86(12):1106-16. Epub 2010 Sep 1.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20807179
---
Milham S. Most cancer in firefighters is due to radio-frequency radiation exposure not inhaled carcinogens. Med Hypotheses. 2009 Nov;73(5):788-9. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.04.020. Epub 2009 May 22.
ttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19464814
---
Mortavazi S, Habib A, Ganj-Karami A, Samimi-Doost R, Pour-Abedi A, Babaie A. Alterations in TSH and Thyroid Hormones following Mobile Phone Use. Oman Med J. 2009 Oct;24(4):274-8. doi: 10.5001/omj.2009.56.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22216380
---
Djeridane Y, Touitou Y, de Seze R. Influence of electromagnetic fields emitted by GSM-900 cellular telephones on the circadian patterns of gonadal, adrenal and pituitary hormones in men. Radiat Res. 2008 Mar;169(3):337-43.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18302481
---
Koyu A, Cesur G, Ozguner F, Akdogan M, Mollaoglu H, Ozen S. Effects of 900 MHz electromagnetic field on TSH and thyroid hormones in rats. Toxicol Lett. 2005 Jul 4;157(3):257-62. Epub 2005 Apr 11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15917150
---
Wakeford R. The cancer epidemiology of radiation. Oncogene. 2004 Aug 23;23(38):6404-28.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15322514
---
Bergamaschi A, Magrini A, Ales G, Coppeta L, Somma G. Are thyroid dysfunctions related to stress or microwave exposure (900 MHz)? Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2004 May-Aug;17(2 Suppl):31-6.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15345189
---
Black DR, Heynick LN. Radiofrequency (RF) effects on blood cells, cardiac, endocrine, and immunological functions.Bioelectromagnetics. 2003;Suppl 6:S187-95.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14628314
http://www.saferemr.com/2014/03/dept-of-interior-attacks-...
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Comment 19 - Safety Code 6 Needs to Establish Real Safety Standards
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Health
Canada needs to strengthen and establish real safety standards of .0001u/wcm2
now to protect the public and not delay as the US has done. Stop shirking
your responsibility to the public.
Kevin Mottus
The
FCC received 900 submissions regarding its cell phone radiation regulations.
These documents reveal what we know about wireless radiation health effects,
and why we need to strengthen regulations and provide precautionary warnings to
the public.
http://www.saferemr.com/2013/11/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about.html
_________________________________________________
Comment 20 - Safety Code 6 Needs to Establish Real Safety Standards
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Research
below shows biological effects which make Safety Code 6 inadequate and the lack
of non-thermal effect protections criminal. See below. Health Canada is
allowing new forms of microwave radiation to be used on its citizens without
sufficient testing for health effects. Stop hiding behind legalese,
intellectualism and PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE THE MANDATE OF GOD GREATER THAN ANY
SOCIETAL RULE! You all will be judged for the suffering you have caused
and allowed.
Kevin Mottus
New
peer-reviewed research finds that 30 minutes' exposure to LTE cellphone
radiation affects brain activity on both sides of the brain.
Website: http://www.saferemr.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SaferEMRSaferEMR
(1) Bin Lv, Zhiye Chen, Tongning Wu, Qing Shao, Duo Yan, Lin Ma, Ke Lu, Yi Xie. The alteration of spontaneous low frequency oscillations caused by acute electromagnetic fields exposure. Clinical Neurophysiology. Published online 4 September 2013.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24012322
(2) Volkow ND, Tomasi D, Wang GJ, Vaska P, Fowler JS, Telang F, Alexoff D, Logan J, Wong C. Effects of cell phone radiofrequency signal exposure on brain glucose metabolism. JAMA. 2011 Feb 23;305(8):808-13. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.186.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184892/
Photo:
http://www.prlog.org/12215083/1
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Comment 21 - Safety Code 6 Needs to Establish Real Safety Standards
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Health
Canada needs to stop the unnecessary exposure of our people to RF
radiation thru smart meters which are unnecessary and a waste of of government
funds, represent a violation of our privacy and a health hazard. Revised
standards should ban smart meters; it is time Health Canada listens to the
thousands of people suffering and experts referenced below.
Kevin Mottus
Health Experts Caution About Smart Meters
More
than 50 scientists and medical professionals from 20 countries call for
precaution regarding deployment of wireless “smart meters."
http://www.prlog.org/11978228-health-experts-caution-about-smart-meters.html
Comment 22-Safety Code 6-EMF Causing Cancer
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety Code 6 does not take
into account non-thermal biological health effects and should be
lowered to .0001u/wcm2 to be protective of public health and avoid known
biological effects as further substantiated below.
Kevin Mottus
The
incidence of thyroid cancer has been increasing rapidly in recent
years in many countries including the U.S., Canada, and Israel.
A headline in Haaretz a year ago March reads, "Israeli scientists find possible link between cellphone use, thyroid cancer."
In response to questions posed to me on this topic today from several individuals, I did a PubMed search. Although I did not find any epidemiologic studies that examined the association between mobile phone use and thyroid cancer in humans, I found almost a dozen published papers that have studied the effects of cell phone radiation on thyroid function. Apparently, case-control research on this topic is warranted.
The abstracts from 11 published papers that examined the effects of exposure to cell phone radiation on thyroid function appear below. Please let me know if you are aware of important studies that I missed, and I will supplement this list. I did not include studies that examined exposure to power frequency radiation.
But first, here is the 2013 news article ...
Israeli scientists find possible link between cellphone use, thyroid cancer
http://bit.ly/14rrWfA
--
Hilly, Ohad; Silva, Verónica; Mizrachi, Aviram; Ariel, Ortal; Raiter, Annat; Hauptman, Yirmi; Hardy, Britta; Feinmesser, Raphael. EFFECT OF NON-IONIZING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION AT MOBILE PHONE FREQUENCY ON HUMAN THYROID CELLS. Abstract from the World Thyroid Cancer Congress in Toronto 2013.
http://thyroidworldcongress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/O022_Mizrachi.pdf
PubMed Search Results (in chronological order)
A headline in Haaretz a year ago March reads, "Israeli scientists find possible link between cellphone use, thyroid cancer."
In response to questions posed to me on this topic today from several individuals, I did a PubMed search. Although I did not find any epidemiologic studies that examined the association between mobile phone use and thyroid cancer in humans, I found almost a dozen published papers that have studied the effects of cell phone radiation on thyroid function. Apparently, case-control research on this topic is warranted.
The abstracts from 11 published papers that examined the effects of exposure to cell phone radiation on thyroid function appear below. Please let me know if you are aware of important studies that I missed, and I will supplement this list. I did not include studies that examined exposure to power frequency radiation.
But first, here is the 2013 news article ...
Israeli scientists find possible link between cellphone use, thyroid cancer
http://bit.ly/14rrWfA
--
Hilly, Ohad; Silva, Verónica; Mizrachi, Aviram; Ariel, Ortal; Raiter, Annat; Hauptman, Yirmi; Hardy, Britta; Feinmesser, Raphael. EFFECT OF NON-IONIZING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION AT MOBILE PHONE FREQUENCY ON HUMAN THYROID CELLS. Abstract from the World Thyroid Cancer Congress in Toronto 2013.
http://thyroidworldcongress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/O022_Mizrachi.pdf
PubMed Search Results (in chronological order)
K, Sechman A, Nieckarz Z. Plasma thyroid hormones and corticosterone levels in blood of chicken embryos and post hatch chickens exposed during incubation to 1800 MHz electromagnetic field. Int J Occup Med Environ Health. 2014 Jan 31. [Epub ahead of print]
http://1.usa.gov/1e4do9w
---
Jin YB, Choi HD, Kim BC, Pack JK, Kim N, Lee YS.Effects of simultaneous combined exposure to CDMA and WCDMA electromagnetic fields on serum hormone levels in rats. J Radiat Res. 2013 May;54(3):430-7. doi: 10.1093/jrr/rrs120. Epub 2012 Dec 13.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23239176
---
Dimida A, Ferrarini E, Agretti P, De Marco G, Grasso L, Martinelli M, Longo I, Giulietti D, Ricci A, Galimberti M, Siervo B, Licitra G, Francia F, Pinchera A, Vitti P, Tonacchera M. Electric and magnetic fields do not modify the biochemical properties of FRTL-5 cells. J Endocrinol Invest. 2011 Mar;34(3):185-9. doi: 10.3275/7107. Epub 2010 Jun 11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20543553
---
Esmekaya MA, Seyhan N, Ömeroglu S. Pulse modulated 900 MHz radiation induces hypothyroidism and apoptosis in thyroid cells: a light, electron microscopy and immunohistochemical study. Int J Radiat Biol. 2010 Dec;86(12):1106-16. Epub 2010 Sep 1.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20807179
---
Milham S. Most cancer in firefighters is due to radio-frequency radiation exposure not inhaled carcinogens. Med Hypotheses. 2009 Nov;73(5):788-9. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.04.020. Epub 2009 May 22.
ttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19464814
---
Mortavazi S, Habib A, Ganj-Karami A, Samimi-Doost R, Pour-Abedi A, Babaie A. Alterations in TSH and Thyroid Hormones following Mobile Phone Use. Oman Med J. 2009 Oct;24(4):274-8. doi: 10.5001/omj.2009.56.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22216380
---
Djeridane Y, Touitou Y, de Seze R. Influence of electromagnetic fields emitted by GSM-900 cellular telephones on the circadian patterns of gonadal, adrenal and pituitary hormones in men. Radiat Res. 2008 Mar;169(3):337-43.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18302481
---
Koyu A, Cesur G, Ozguner F, Akdogan M, Mollaoglu H, Ozen S. Effects of 900 MHz electromagnetic field on TSH and thyroid hormones in rats. Toxicol Lett. 2005 Jul 4;157(3):257-62. Epub 2005 Apr 11.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15917150
---
Wakeford R. The cancer epidemiology of radiation. Oncogene. 2004 Aug 23;23(38):6404-28.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15322514
---
Bergamaschi A, Magrini A, Ales G, Coppeta L, Somma G. Are thyroid dysfunctions related to stress or microwave exposure (900 MHz)? Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2004 May-Aug;17(2 Suppl):31-6.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15345189
---
Black DR, Heynick LN. Radiofrequency (RF) effects on blood cells, cardiac, endocrine, and immunological functions.Bioelectromagnetics. 2003;Suppl 6:S187-95.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14628314
Kevin Mottus
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Comment 23-Safety Code 6-EMF Causing Cancer
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Comment 24 - Safety Code 6-Does Not Recognize Non-Thermal Biological Health Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
The Honourable Rona Ambrose, P.C., M.P. Health Canada
Brooke Claxton Building
Tunney's Pasture Ottawa
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Health Canada Needs to Protect the Brains of Canadians. Stop ignoring the research of Hardell which shows what we are experiencing in our day to day reality.
Kevin Mottus
Brain Cancer Risk Increases with the Amount of Wireless Phone Use: Study
New research indicates that brain cancer risk increases with more years of cell phone and cordless phone use and more hours of use
http://www.saferemr.com/2013/09/brain-cancer-risk-increases-with-amount.html _______________________________________________________Comment 24 - Safety Code 6-Does Not Recognize Non-Thermal Biological Health Effects
Dear Health Minister Rona Ambrose:
Safety
Code 6 does not take into account non-thermal biological health effects and
should be lowered to .0001u/wcm2 to be protective of public health and avoid
known biological effects as further substantiated below from saferemr.com.
Kevin Mottus
Scientists Call on Government to Protect Public from Wireless Radiation Exposure
Wednesday,
July 9, 2014, 3:13:06 PM
More
than 50 scientists from 18 nations called on government to minimize the
public's exposure to the radiation emitted by wireless devices including cell
and cordless phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters and baby monitors.
Hybrid and Electric Automobiles Should Be Re-Designed to Reduce Electromagnetic Radiation Risks
Wednesday,
July 2, 2014, 12:28:41 AM
Hybrid
and electric cars may be cancer-causing as they emit extremely low frequency
electromagnetic radiation.
Google Glass Alert: Potential health risks from wireless radiation
Tuesday,
April 15, 2014, 9:20:02 PM
The
Google Glass emits more wireless radiation than most cell phones on the market,
but unlike cell phone users, Glass users may be wearing this device on their
heads for more than 12 hours a day putting their health at risk.
Dept. of Interior attacks FCC regarding Adverse Impact of Cell Tower Radiation on Wildlife
Monday,
March 24, 2014, 1:52:42 PM
The
Department of Interior charges that the FCC standards for cell phone radiation
are outmoded and no longer applicable as they do not adequately protect
wildlife.
Cell Phone Radiation Label Bill Passes Maine Legislature Before Dying
Friday,
March 21, 2014, 5:47:00 PM
The
Maine House and Senate passed "The Wireless Information Act," a cell
phone radiation label requirement, and then killed it prior to enactment due to
cellular industry lobbyists.
Cell Phone Use and Prenatal Exposure to Cell Phone Radiation May Cause Headaches in Children
Thursday,
January 16, 2014, 4:49:44 PM
Researchers
found that children were at higher risk of developing headaches if they used
cell phones or their mothers used cell phones when they were pregnant with
them.
The Top Cell Phone Radiation Safety Stories of 2013
Wednesday,
January 1, 2014, 10:40:02 PM
Research
published last year established greater health risks from exposure to cell
phone radiation. Major governmental reports were released, and policies were
adopted in Europe and India to reduce risks from cell phone radiation exposure.
Everything You Wanted to Know about Cell Phone Radiation
Wednesday,
November 20, 2013, 6:32:07 PM
The
FCC received 900 submissions regarding its cell phone radiation regulations.
These documents reveal what we know about wireless radiation health effects,
and why we need to strengthen regulations and provide precautionary warnings to
the public.
Belgium Adopts New Regulations to Promote Cell Phone Radiation Safety
Friday,
October 25, 2013, 12:41:14 AM
Children’s
mobile phones are banned. The specific absorption rate (SAR) must be listed on
every mobile phone at the point of sale and a warning provided to customers to
choose a lower SAR phone, use it moderately, and wear an earpiece.
French Health Agency Recommends Children and Vulnerable Groups Reduce Cell Phone Radiation Exposure
Tuesday,
October 15, 2013, 4:40:26 PM
In
a major public announcement today, the French Agency for Food, Environmental
and Occupational Health warned the public to reduce their exposure to cell
phone radiation.
Brain Cancer Risk Increases with the Amount of Wireless Phone Use: Study
Wednesday,
September 25, 2013, 3:54:06 PM
New
research indicates that brain cancer risk increases with more years of cell
phone and cordless phone use and more hours of use
LTE Cell Phone Radiation Affects Brain Activity in Cell Phone Users
Monday,
September 23, 2013, 4:37:09 PM
New
peer-reviewed research finds that 30 minutes' exposure to LTE cellphone
radiation affects brain activity on both sides of the brain.
FCC Needs Input about RadioFrequency Radiation
Friday,
July 19, 2013, 2:43:35 PM
Grassroots
Environmental Education has launched a web site to help scientists, medical and
public health professionals, and technical and policy experts submit comments
and peer-reviewed publications to the FCC by September 3.
San Francisco Updates Cell Phone Safety Warnings
Tuesday,
June 4, 2013, 12:55:53 AM
San
Francisco updated its cell phone safety recommendations following the
settlement of a lawsuit that blocked implementation of the city's cell phone
“right to know” law.
Did Tom Wheeler, Nominee for FCC Chair, Subvert Research Showing Harm From Cell Phone Radiation?
Tuesday,
May 28, 2013, 5:07:11 PM
A
wireless industry publication alleged that Mr. Wheeler suppressed and biased
the research from the nation’s largest mobile phone health research project.
Cell Phone Use, Acoustic Neuroma and Cancer of the Pituitary Gland
Friday,
May 10, 2013, 7:40:19 PM
Cell
phone use was associated with increased risk of two types of brain tumors in a
new study of 790,000 women.
Will San Francisco Abandon Its Cell Phone Right to Know Law?
Monday,
May 6, 2013, 2:13:09 PM
Will
San Francisco abandon its cell phone right to know law tomorrow in order to
settle a lawsuit filed by the CTIA-The Wireless Association after a three year
battle in the courts?
Most Significant Government Health Report on Mobile Phone Radiation Ever Published
Wednesday,
April 24, 2013, 4:56:52 PM
Today,
the World Health Organization's (WHO) new monograph on cancer risk from mobile
phones and other sources of RF radiation is featured on the home page of the
WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
WHO Monograph on Cancer Risk from Mobile Phone Use Released
Friday,
April 19, 2013, 2:51:33 PM
The
World Health Organization concludes there is “limited evidence” in both humans
and laboratory animals for the carcinogenicity of radiofrequency radiation,
especially from cell phones.
Children's Cell Phone Use May Increase Their Risk of ADHD
Tuesday,
April 2, 2013, 12:00:38 PM
A
new study finds that children who use cell phones who are exposed to lead are
at greater risk of developing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder than
lead-exposed children who do not use cell phones much or at all.
Your Cell Phone Company May Affect Your Risk of Brain Cancer
Wednesday,
March 27, 2013, 12:56:24 PM
Regardless
of your carrier, always keep your cell phone away from your head and your
reproductive organs. Children's cell phone use should be very limited.
Wireless Industry's Patented System to Reduce Cancer Risk from Wireless Local Networks Never Adopted
Monday,
March 11, 2013, 2:21:55 PM
A
major telecom company patented a system to reduce "electrosmog" from
wireless local networks to reduce cancer risks associated with non-thermal
exposures to microwave radiation. The industry has known the risks for many
years but has failed to act.
Exposure to Electricity May Increase Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and ALS
Monday,
February 25, 2013, 9:00:16 PM
Research
review finds evidence of neurodegenerative effects from electrical exposure.
Better Late Than Never? FCC to Review Cell Phone Radiation Standards
Tuesday,
February 5, 2013, 2:49:08 PM
After
procrastinating for almost ten years, the FCC seems prepared to review its
outmoded wireless radiation standards. But will industry force the FCC to
maintain the status quo or even weaken the inadequate standards?
Call for Action to Reduce Harm from Mobile Phone Radiation
Thursday,
January 24, 2013, 1:04:31 AM
The
European Environment Agency published a major report today to alert governments
about the need to attend to early warning signs about technology health risks,
including mobile phones.
Drs. Oz and Gupta Call for Caution in Using Cell Phones
Wednesday,
January 16, 2013, 4:30:25 PM
Dr.
Sanjay Gupta in a recent episode of the TV program, "The Doctor Oz
Show," discussed cell phone radiation and brain cancer with Dr. Mehmet Oz
and called for caution in how we use our cell phones.
What's Wrong with the GAO Report on Cell Phone Radiation?
Thursday,
January 10, 2013, 8:45:30 PM
Comments
on the 2012 GAO Report: “Exposure and Testing Requirements for Mobile Phones
Should Be Reassessed” Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
Studies Show Cell Phone Use Increases Brain Cancer Risk
Thursday,
January 3, 2013, 8:02:55 PM
A
newly published review of the research on mobile phone radiation and brain
tumor risk calls on governments " to protect public health from this
widespread source of radiation."
Boeing Tests In-Flight Wireless on Potatoes, Not People
Wednesday,
December 19, 2012, 6:09:50 PM
Should
we allow airlines to adopt wi-fi and cellular systems on airplanes? Given the
latest health research and our outmoded FCC wireless regulations, is this safe
for humans, especially for pregnant women and children?
Florida City Adopts Cell Phone Precautionary Health Warnings
Tuesday,
November 27, 2012, 6:59:49 PM
Pembroke
Pines in Florida joined a handful of cities when it adopted a resolution on
November 20 that warns the public about the health effects of cell phone
radiation and precautionary safety measures.
Cell Phone Radiation, Pregnancy, and Sperm
Tuesday,
November 20, 2012, 1:16:55 AM
The
latest, peer-reviewed science finds that prenatal cellphone radiation exposure
damages test mammals' brains and offspring, and cellphone radiation exposure
damages sperm in humans.
Secondhand Exposure to Cell Phone Radiation: An Emerging Public Health Problem?
Monday,
October 29, 2012, 12:07:13 PM
Exposure
to other people's cell phone radiation on buses and trains can be considerable
according to a newly published study.
Italian Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can Cause Cancer
Friday,
October 19, 2012, 9:02:29 PM
What
are the implications of this ruling for the United States?
Health Experts Caution About Smart Meters
Wednesday,
September 19, 2012, 1:13:22 PM
More
than 50 scientists and medical professionals from 20 countries call for
precaution regarding deployment of wireless “smart meters."
San Francisco’s Cell Phone Fact Sheet is Factual
Wednesday,
September 12, 2012, 4:24:21 PM
Contrary
to the recent opinion issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the
revised fact sheet adopted by San Francisco to implement its cell phone “right
to know” ordinance is “factual and uncontroversial.”
India Adopts Health Warnings & U.S. Mobile Phone Standards
Wednesday,
September 5, 2012, 12:21:52 AM
India
adopts the U.S. cell phone radiation standard, issues health warnings and
requires safety precautions in user manuals. Local and state governments in the
U.S. should issue precautionary health warnings now to protect cell phone
users.
Samsung Scores with Lowest Radiation Cell Phones: Why Samsung Phones are a "Win-Win"
Wednesday,
August 29, 2012, 2:08:16 PM
Samsung
adopted an innovative antenna system in 2006 to "enhance handset safety by
radiating most of the transmitted RF energy away from the handset user"
and improve RF (radio frequency) performance. Why haven't more manufacturers
followed suit?
Big Week for Cell Phone Radiation Legislation
Monday,
August 6, 2012, 2:25:20 PM
A
"cell phone right to know" bill was just introduced in the Congress,
and the City and County of San Francisco will defend its "cell phone right
to know" ordinance against a CTIA lawsuit in a federal appeals court.
Magnetic Field Exposure Before Birth May Contribute to Childhood Obesity
Friday,
July 27, 2012, 8:15:32 PM
Research
studies find that children exposed before birth to high levels of magnetic
fields from common household appliances are at increased risk of becoming
overweight or obese and developing asthma.
Russian Cell Phone Standards Offer Better Protection than American Standards
Thursday,
July 5, 2012, 5:53:28 PM
Unlike
the U.S. radiofrequency standards that regulate cell phones, the Russian
standards are based on the precautionary principle. Moreover, they are designed
to protect the public from all risks due to cell phone radiation, not just from
heating.
Cell Phone Radiation Damages Sperm
Thursday,
June 28, 2012, 9:05:42 PM
Scientists
from the Environmental Working Group publish a review of 10 studies that found
cell phone radiation damages sperm.
Does The FCC Plan To Rubber Stamp Outdated Cell Phone Radiation Standards?
Friday,
June 15, 2012, 9:02:08 PM
More
research on cell phone radiation is needed before we replace our outdated
guidelines. In the interim the US should disseminate precautionary health
warnings. A $1 annual fee per cell phone would generate $300 million for
research and education.
Cell phone radiation warning on San Francisco government web site
Friday,
May 18, 2012, 4:46:34 PM
San
Francisco recently updated its web site to include precautionary health
warnings about cell phone radiation. Other cities throughout the nation may
wish to adopt this strategy to educate their citizens about cell phone safety.
________________________________________________________The Honourable Rona Ambrose, P.C., M.P. Health Canada
Brooke Claxton Building
Tunney's Pasture Ottawa
Ontario K1A 0K9
RE: Review of Safety Code 6
Dear Honourable Ambrose,
Thank-you for the opportunity to submit comments regarding Safety Code 6.
RE: Review of Safety Code 6
Dear Honourable Ambrose,
Thank-you for the opportunity to submit comments regarding Safety Code 6.
I am very concerned with the inadequate scientific review of Safety Code 6 so far and the inadequate
protection of Canadians’ health from radiation exposure.
Levels of radiation which are much lower than Safety Code 6 have been negatively affecting my health and those around me; however, there is no acknowledgement of this health issue in Safety Code 6. Accepted, double-blind scientific tests have proven that “low levels of radiation” ("low" compared to Safety Code 6) cause heart variability, imbalances in the nervous system, and irregularities in one’s blood.
In accordance with the current research, I had my blood tested. I fasted for 9 hours, was in an area away from radiation, and had my blood sampled. Below is a picture of my blood which was sampled before exposure to low level radiation:
The red blood cells were individual.
After the above picture was taken, and continuing without eating or drinking anything, I was exposed to 25 minutes of low level radiation (thousands and thousands of times lower than Safety Code 6). After this exposure, my blood was immediately re-sampled.
Below is the picture of my blood after 25 minutes of low level radiation exposure:
Levels of radiation which are much lower than Safety Code 6 have been negatively affecting my health and those around me; however, there is no acknowledgement of this health issue in Safety Code 6. Accepted, double-blind scientific tests have proven that “low levels of radiation” ("low" compared to Safety Code 6) cause heart variability, imbalances in the nervous system, and irregularities in one’s blood.
In accordance with the current research, I had my blood tested. I fasted for 9 hours, was in an area away from radiation, and had my blood sampled. Below is a picture of my blood which was sampled before exposure to low level radiation:
The red blood cells were individual.
After the above picture was taken, and continuing without eating or drinking anything, I was exposed to 25 minutes of low level radiation (thousands and thousands of times lower than Safety Code 6). After this exposure, my blood was immediately re-sampled.
Below is the picture of my blood after 25 minutes of low level radiation exposure:
My red blood cells grouped together into complex rouleaux, which is one of the initial signs of disease.
As the pictures show, radiation lower than Safety Code 6 causes disregulation in the blood. The rouleaux was accompanied by a headache, pain in my body, and tingling all over, as well as inflammation on the roof of my mouth. This was only from 25 minutes of exposure, let alone the 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and many years of exposure that Safety Code 6 permits.
The above procedure was conducted by a PhD with 33 years of experience as a health professional; however, I am willing to be re-tested by Health Canada if there are any questions or doubts about the procedure or discrediting for any reason of the serious negative effects on my body.
According to Safety Code 6, Health Canada’s mandate is to “help the people of Canada maintain and improve their health”; however, the current Safety Code 6 advocates for harming people's blood in only 25 minutes of low level exposure. Safety Code 6, by allowing such obvious negative biological effects, is not helping Canadians maintain and improve their health and thus is not fulfilling the mandate of Health Canada.
As I'm sure you are aware from others who are writing into Health Canada, the Royal Society of Canada's review of Safety Code 6 did not follow international best practices, and it has missed the review of hundreds of scientific papers, those which demonstrate negative biological effects. If you would like more details to prove these statements, please kindly contact me. The following is one example.
Two of the PhD’s on the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) review panel had previously been hired by the Wi-Fi industry to minimalize radiation health effects. Placing these reviewers on the panel, firstly, is a conflict of interest. It is a forced biasing of the panel, particularly because there was no one on the panel who was an expert representative from the Hypersensitivity to Electromagnetic Radiation (EHS) community even though there are a number of PhD's from the EHS community who would qualify. Secondly, I reviewed their paper, and it is anything but unbiased or objectively scientific. I have a Masters in Engineering and have attached my review called, “Review of Foster Wi-Fi paper”, which exposes the flaws in their paper. With such reviewers on an unbalanced RSC panel, the RSC review of Safety Code 6 cannot represent an objective scientific review.
As the pictures show, radiation lower than Safety Code 6 causes disregulation in the blood. The rouleaux was accompanied by a headache, pain in my body, and tingling all over, as well as inflammation on the roof of my mouth. This was only from 25 minutes of exposure, let alone the 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and many years of exposure that Safety Code 6 permits.
The above procedure was conducted by a PhD with 33 years of experience as a health professional; however, I am willing to be re-tested by Health Canada if there are any questions or doubts about the procedure or discrediting for any reason of the serious negative effects on my body.
According to Safety Code 6, Health Canada’s mandate is to “help the people of Canada maintain and improve their health”; however, the current Safety Code 6 advocates for harming people's blood in only 25 minutes of low level exposure. Safety Code 6, by allowing such obvious negative biological effects, is not helping Canadians maintain and improve their health and thus is not fulfilling the mandate of Health Canada.
As I'm sure you are aware from others who are writing into Health Canada, the Royal Society of Canada's review of Safety Code 6 did not follow international best practices, and it has missed the review of hundreds of scientific papers, those which demonstrate negative biological effects. If you would like more details to prove these statements, please kindly contact me. The following is one example.
Two of the PhD’s on the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) review panel had previously been hired by the Wi-Fi industry to minimalize radiation health effects. Placing these reviewers on the panel, firstly, is a conflict of interest. It is a forced biasing of the panel, particularly because there was no one on the panel who was an expert representative from the Hypersensitivity to Electromagnetic Radiation (EHS) community even though there are a number of PhD's from the EHS community who would qualify. Secondly, I reviewed their paper, and it is anything but unbiased or objectively scientific. I have a Masters in Engineering and have attached my review called, “Review of Foster Wi-Fi paper”, which exposes the flaws in their paper. With such reviewers on an unbalanced RSC panel, the RSC review of Safety Code 6 cannot represent an objective scientific review.
The above demonstrates that Safety Code 6 levels cause biological harm so is not safe. Also that RSC's
review was incomplete and unethically biased.
Thirdly, the Canadian Human Rights office has confirmed in writing that Environmental Sensitivities explicitly includes EHS. By definition, EHS is caused and aggrevated by radiation exposure much lower than Safety Code 6. Thus, Safety Code 6 is not safe for persons with EHS. The Human Rights office has commissioned monographs which detail that radiation levels much lower than Safety Code 6 cause “very real symptoms”. Shockingly, Safety Code 6 is currently stated as applying for “all Canadians including persons with EHS”. If Health Canada releases Safety Code 6 as such, it will be in violation of the Human Rights Act by not only not acknowledging persons with EHS but by also discriminating against them.
Please explicitly EXCLUDE “persons with environmental sensitivities” from Safety Code 6.
Further to the incomplete review of current papers by the Royal Society of Canada, please also REJECT the current review by RSC and REJECT using RSC for reviews because they allow undeclared conflicts of interest on their panel. Please commission another review of Safety Code 6 by an independent panel in accordance with internationally recognized best practices, and include a transparent review of all the new scientific papers since 2009.
Thank-you so much for your care and attention for Canadian's well-being.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael Meszaros, M.Eng., P.Eng.
Cc: The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Mr. Kennedy Stewart, MP
Attached: “Review of Foster Wi-Fi paper”
http://parentsforasafeschool.blogspot.ca/2014/08/wi-fi-and-health-review-of-current.html
Thirdly, the Canadian Human Rights office has confirmed in writing that Environmental Sensitivities explicitly includes EHS. By definition, EHS is caused and aggrevated by radiation exposure much lower than Safety Code 6. Thus, Safety Code 6 is not safe for persons with EHS. The Human Rights office has commissioned monographs which detail that radiation levels much lower than Safety Code 6 cause “very real symptoms”. Shockingly, Safety Code 6 is currently stated as applying for “all Canadians including persons with EHS”. If Health Canada releases Safety Code 6 as such, it will be in violation of the Human Rights Act by not only not acknowledging persons with EHS but by also discriminating against them.
Please explicitly EXCLUDE “persons with environmental sensitivities” from Safety Code 6.
Further to the incomplete review of current papers by the Royal Society of Canada, please also REJECT the current review by RSC and REJECT using RSC for reviews because they allow undeclared conflicts of interest on their panel. Please commission another review of Safety Code 6 by an independent panel in accordance with internationally recognized best practices, and include a transparent review of all the new scientific papers since 2009.
Thank-you so much for your care and attention for Canadian's well-being.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael Meszaros, M.Eng., P.Eng.
Cc: The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Mr. Kennedy Stewart, MP
Attached: “Review of Foster Wi-Fi paper”
http://parentsforasafeschool.blogspot.ca/2014/08/wi-fi-and-health-review-of-current.html
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It is unfortunate you were not able to join us at our conference on July 9th. Thank you for sending your well wishes. I would welcome the opportunity to meet with you to review the information presented in either Calgary or Ottawa, whichever is convenient.
While offering public input on Safety Code 6 for the first time is a considerable improvement, we believe there are several underlying issues with the current update for Safety Code 6. Under separate letters, the following submissions have been made from various sources.
- Over thirty five Canadian physicians signed a submission calling for
Health Canada to assist Canadian physicians in becoming apprised of microwave
exposure and related health problems that may be associated with over-exposure
or sensitivity.
[Read More...] - Over 50 international scientists who do research in the field of wireless
radiation signed a declaration stating that Canada’s Safety Code 6 Guideline
is fundamentally flawed.
[Read More...] - The MD’s and scientists all state that the current levels of Safety Code 6 do not protect Canadians and called for Health Canada to do a more complete review. They also called for Health Canada to minimize exposure to wireless radiation, especially among children.
- A review that identifies 140 studies that show harm at levels
significantly below Safety Code 6 that have not been reviewed by Health Canada
in its recent update.
[Read More...] - 104 (74%) of the 140 publications referenced above were submitted to
Health Canada in 2013 and ignored by staff. They have been resubmitted.
[Read More...] - Health Canada’s public input was by email only. C4ST independently
organized, staffed and funded an event in Ottawa on July 9th to ensure that
all Canadians have a chance to voice their concerns about Safety Code 6.
Delegations were recorded from about 30 of the 200 Canadians present at the
meeting, plus some of those who video-conferenced in. These were submitted to
Health Canada by the July 15th deadline.
[Read More...] - On October 28, 2013, the Royal Society of Canada hosted a public hearing
on Safety Code 6 Limits of Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic
Energy (wireless radiation safety). Twenty-three experts included documents as
part of their submissions. Representatives from the Royal Society told C4ST
that they would send all submissions to Health Canada. Health Canada’s Safety
Code 6 (2014) Rationale document does not acknowledge many of these
submissions nor the publications that are included and referenced.
[Read More...] - Summary comments written by two of the peer reviewers of the Royal Society
Report referenced above. Dr. Anthony Miller, Professor Emeritus, Dalla Lana
School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Visiting Senior Scientist
in the Monographs programme in IARC September 2011- January 2012 and Dr.
Martin Blank, Special Lecturer, Columbia University both state that the Report
failed in its obligation to the public.
[Read More...] - The Bioinitiative 2012 Report is not given the proper analysis and
consideration it deserves. The Bioinitiative Working Group prepared a
comprehensive review of the radiofrequency/microwave radiation literature in
2007, much showing adverse biological effects well below the current and
proposed Safety Code 6 levels. This was updated in 2012 with inclusion of a
further 1,800 publications. The BioInitiative 2012 Report was prepared by 29
authors from ten countries, (Sweden (6), USA (10), India (2), Italy (2),
Greece (2), Canada (2), Denmark (1), Austria (2), Slovac Republic (1), Russia
(1)); ten holding medical degrees (MDs), 21 with PhDs, and three with an MSc,
MA or MPH. Among the authors are three former presidents of the
Bioelectromagnetics Society, and five full members of BEMS. One distinguished
author is the Chair of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing
Radiation. Another is a Senior Advisor to the European Environmental
Agency.
[Read More...] - A 300+ page document prepared by the BioInitiative Working Group which
provides commentary and references to studies overlooked by both the Royal
Society of Canada Report of 2014 (RSC (2014)) and the Scientific Committee on
Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks Opinion (European Commission
Directorate General for Health and Consumers, Luxembourg) in its recent
Preliminary Opinion on Potential Health Effects of Exposure to Electromagnetic
Fields (EMF) Report (SCENIHR (2013)).
[Read More...] - Corrections to Health Canada’s “Busting Myths on Safety Code 6” posting on
your website. Emails sent to Canadians contain some of this misleading and
incomplete information.
[Read More...]
Minister, for over two years now, C4ST has expressed concerns over the process that Health Canada is using to update Safety Code 6. The current circumscribed Health Canada evidence base allegedly supporting draft Safety Code 6 is lacking a great deal of information, demonstrating the potential for significant harm from low levels of radiofrequency/microwave radiation. It is necessary to follow modern, established, international best practices to achieve a comprehensive, transparent and systematic review in environmental health.
In the absence of a complete evidence base, it is impossible that Health Canada has founded Safety Code 6 on a “weight of evidence” as claimed. Given the absence of studies showing harm, and suggestions of bias in selection of evidence, we believe that Safety Code 6 as it stands will not protect the health of Canadians.
Minister, projections are that there will be 50 billion wireless devices worldwide by 2019 which equates to over 20 devices per Canadian home. If history repeats, that is about the time of the next update for Safety Code 6. Currently, China, Russia, Italy and Switzerland have better wireless radiation safety standards than Canada. The time is now to invest the proper resources and ensure that Safety Code 6 offers the protection Canadians require and expect.
We very much appreciate you taking the time to address and respond to our concerns. Like us, we know that you want to ensure that Canadians are kept safe and healthy, and we hope that we can work with you to meet that common objective.
Sincerely,
Frank Clegg
CEO, Canadians for Safe Technology
cc: Mr. Terence Young, MP Oakville
http://www.c4st.org/MOHSubmission
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July 11, 2014
To: Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Minister of Health, Rona Ambrose
MP West Vancouver, John Weston
Cc: C4ST
Re: Health Canada – Safety Code 6 Inadequate to Protect Children – Public Submission
As
a citizen and parent, I beseech you to bring forth safety code
regulations that will protect children from unwarranted
radio-frequency/microwave (RF/MW) radiation.
My child alone is exposed to RF/MW radiation from wireless technologies and other sources, sometimes continuously, 24/7:
Cell tower – 420 meters from our home and 300 meters from her elementary school
Cell
phone radiation – when in close proximity to those operating their cell
phones or smart devices (or texting) at school and in public areas and
on transit buses
iPad computer – 5 antennas per iPad in a classroom of 26 children, one computer for each child
Wi-Fi
routers – pulsing continuously in every school classroom and hallway in
her elementary school; our neighbors’ Wi-Fi networks
Wi-Fi
routers – in public areas – whole towns and cities are being connected
wirelessly; our national parks; our hospitals and medical center; local
businesses; BC Ferries
BC Hydro Smart Meter – whole neighborhoods on smart grids within our town
Water
Meters – installed throughout the whole town; ours is next to our
driveway where we play basketball; it pulses continuously, but is only
read twice a year
BC Hydro power sub-station – exposure when she walks back and forth to school
Electrical power lines to the sub-station – 200 meters away from our house
Prior exposure – baby monitor, portable phone, and home Wi-Fi router
Future exposure – smart vehicles, Wi-Fi on airplanes, smart appliances
How can I to protect her from the continuous bombardment of RF radiation from wireless technologies if Health Canada will not consider relevant studies that have shown that non-ionizing radiation has a “mechanism of harm?”
Specifically,
cognitive function and behavior is influenced as a result of disruption
to intercellular communication and DNA expression. George Carlo, PhD,
for example, found this disruption mechanism to affect:
a child’s ability to learn in school, focus and retain information
a child’s sleep pattern
a child’s differentiation process at maturation
a child’s immune response to other environmental stressors.
What
cannot be known are the cumulative, biological effects on a child after
a lifetime of exposure to this assault by an unchecked wireless
industry.
So, why is Health Canada unprepared to intercede to protect the health of our children?
Per Dr. Barrie Trower: “There is no safety level for microwave radiation for children.”
I consider it a complete dereliction in duty to selectively listen to what suits a pre-existing bias. Non-ionizing radiation needs to be considered harmful to the human body until its proven safe.
Thank you,
Lesley Barnett_____________________________________________________________
Dear Minister Ambrose,
What you are attempting to do has been done before. "A Canadian Framework for Applying the Precautionary Principle to Public Health Issues" Can J Public Health 2010;101(5):396-98 states: "The lesson from these inquiries is that if the precautionary principle is not defined by Canadian public health officials,others will define it for them."
In this article, The Rio Declaration, a more nuanced interpretation, states “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”
Cost-effective measures in the case of Cell Towers would be to relocate the towers to areas outside the "killing zone" of 1500 meters from residences.Stop using later technology to disguise cell towers, i.e. "microcells". In the case of Smart Meters. it is self evident that the cost is a lot less with true analog meters than with Smart Meters. A Smart Meter in BC costs $555.00 and has to be replaced every 5 to 7 years and an Analog Meter costs $30.00 and has to be calibrated every 20 years.
"The various criticisms of the precautionary principle highlight the importance of clear criteria for its application. For example, Beloin and Gagnon suggest that three major issues must be addressed when determining how to use the principle: certainty of a cause and effect relationship, severity of the potential health impact and characteristics of the precautionary measures. They argue that the precautionary principle must only be applied when the alleged risk is sufficiently severe, the relationship between cause and effect is somewhat likely, and precautionary measures are acceptable."
This article can be found at
http://journal.cpha.ca/index.
Mike Testart
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July 1, 2014
Dear Minister Ambrose:
I am writing this letter to you I response to
Health Canada’s request for public input regarding Safety Code 6, Canada’s
safety standard for wireless technology, such as WiFi in schools, smart meters
and cell towers.
I am very,
very concerned regarding the use of WiFi in schools and in city, Edmonton,
there is not ONE school that does not have WiFi and therefore parents do not
have a choice regarding whether or not they want their child exposed to this
type of radiation. Children and teachers who are electrosensitive have NO
options.
What is most concerning is that there are many
scientific studies that show adverse health effects at very low levels of WiFi
radiation and these are not being considered.
To date, Health Canada has not followed
international best practices in its updates of Safety Code 6 which includes; 1)
Listing the studies included and excluded [with reasons], evidence tables,
grading of study quality to permit meaningful public participation to ensure a
“rigorous, transparent” review 2) For the weight of evidence, adapting and
adopting a framework such as that proposed by the US National Toxicology
Program with complete transparency on assumptions, interpretations and
decisions 3) Review the original research publications, not just review
articles 3) Ensure the panel has the mandate, capability and resources to
validate and further update the literature searches 4) For the first time,
publish a monograph from the SC6 update.
As well, the statement, “… Certain
members of the general public may be more susceptible to harm from RF and
microwave exposure", was removed from the 2009 update to Safety Code 6. As
electrosensitivity is in the Canadian Human Rights Act, it should be put back
in Safety Code 6.
Safety Code 6 was developed by exposing a 200
lb. male mannequin to 6 minutes of radiation. What scientific evidence is there that this provides
safety for children and fetuses? How is that relevant to today’s constant
exposure?
SC6 was created in 1979 to
protect workers and visitors to federal buildings. What scientific proof
is there to justify expanding this to cell towers and antennae? Smart meters?
Wi-Fi? Cell and portable phones? Baby monitors? Game consoles? Tablets?
Wireless: laptops, printers, mice, keyboards?
Research now shows that damage occurs at very low levels of radiation
exposure, yet Safety Code 6 is based on the heating of tissue. Biological
damage occurring at these low levels MUST be considered! Recently I tested the WiFi reading
under a router in two local schools and the readings were double that of the
measurements I took 100 yards from a local cell tower. We would never want to
live near a cell tower because of the well-established research linking them to
leukemia’s and other cancers, yet our children are exposed to much more than
this when in school!!
Minister Ambrose, we need you to take action to protect our children. We
do not want to have an epidemic of cancers and infertility 10 years from now.
Please consider all the relevant research and ensure that the scientists that
participate in these review panels are unbiased.
Sincerely, Gina Shimoda
