Thank
you
Janis
cc
your MLA https://www.leg.bc.ca/learn-about-us/members
Dear
Deputy Minister, Don Wright,
I
would like to show my support for Parents for Schools request
for a ban of cell phones in our schools.
It’s
clear that the constant use of cell phones is interfering with
our children’s ability to interact and develop healthy
relationships in the real world. This addiction is robbing
our children of the opportunity to build life skills that
include critical thinking, communication, cooperation, and the
ability to focus in the classroom.
Besides the negative impact this addiction has on learning, we are aware of the SCIENTIFIC FACT that microwave radiation exposure causes biological effects confirming the growing evidence of neurological effects and developmental delays in our children.
And
now recent studies have proven that 90% of cell phones on the
market today exceed the Safety Code 6 guidelines
for radiation exposure (SAR at 1.6 W/kg at
5mm) when the
phones
are tested as they are used in real life. Children attending school
are pressing these cell phones against their heads and
abdomens and storing them in their pockets when we know these
devices are emitting up to 11 times over the
current guidelines.
All
these facts combined have only confirmed our concerns about
the permanent health risks from the use of cellphones and
personal devices in our schools.
We
are asking for the BC government to follow Ontario’s lead and
ban cellphones and personal devices in our schools.
Respectfully,
Name
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| Subject: | Cellphones exceed the Safety Code 6 guidelines for radiation exposure! |
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| Date: | Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:41:48 -0800 |
| From: | Janis Hoffmann <iknowjanis@shaw.ca> |
| To: | alison.wensink@gov.bc.ca |
Dear Deputy Minister, Don
Wright,
We want to know why Health
Canada, which administers, under the Radiation Emitting
Devices Act, the sale, lease and importation of
radiation emitting devices has neglected to do its due
diligence by allowing cell phones to be brought onto the
market without any practical/realistic-use
safety testing?
We
want to know why the manufacturers of cell phones are
allowed to self report and only have to submit a sample of a
one new phone to comply with exposure standards that has
been set by the industry?
We
want to know why thousands of children attending school are
still pressing these cell phones against their heads and
abdomens and storing them in their pockets when we know
these devices are emitting up to 11 times over the
current guidelines?
We
want to know why BC Minister of Education, Rob Fleming has
refused to follow Ontario’s lead and ban cellphones and
personal devices in our schools, when his child is attending
the only school in Victoria with a cell phone ban? http://parentsforasafeschool.blogspot.com/2019/10/we-want-to-know-why-bc-is-not-banning.html
The
Chicago Tribune recently did an independent investigation
into the cell phone scandal (Phonegate) and confirmed
the findings that iphone 7 and other smart phones exceeded
the Safety Code 6 guidelines for radiation exposure (SAR
at 1.6 W/kg at 5mm). Apple and
Samsung are knowingly selling products that exceed allowable
radiation limits and have failed to warn its consumers
regarding radiation risks and the need to keep the phone at
a safe distance away from the body.
“The
Chicago investigation confirms what the French National
Agency has warned about for some time now that 90% of all
the major cellphones tested (more than 450) emitted
significantly higher levels of radiation exceeding the
safety compliance standards, up to 5 times the current
guidelines when phones are tested as they are used in real
life. The current guidelines
for the manufacturers is based on the 1990’s when people
wore their standard flip phone on their hip in a holster
about 1 “ away from your body.
In a recent study by Professor Om
Gandhi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, he examined data
from 450 cell phones and also confirmed that the phone can
exceed the guidelines and emitted up to 11 times
over the US FCC limit when used under realistic conditions.
France
has asked the European Commission to strengthen the
regulations and guidelines for new mobile phones placed on
the market. As recommended by ANSES, the Government has
requested that the certification tests be carried out in
regards to the contact with the device, and not at 5 mm as
is currently the case, so that they are more representative
of the real exposure of users. France also asked for an
information campaign to encourage changes in ways of use,
especially among children.
Portland, Oregon passed
Bill 283 directing Oregon Health Authority to review
peer-reviewed, independently funded scientific studies of
health effects of exposure to microwave radiation,
particularly exposure that results from use of wireless
network technologies in schools. The Department of Education
will develop recommendations to schools in this state for
practices and alternative technologies that reduce students’
exposure to microwave radiation that Oregon Health Authority
report identifies as harmful.
"This
2019 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is
declared to exist..." https://www.emfsa.co.za/news/oregon-senate-bill-283-orders-review-of-independent-peer-reviewed-literature-on-health-effects-from-microwave-radiation/
The
Italian court ordered the government (Ministries of the
Environment and Education) to launch a campaign to advise
the public of the health risks from mobile and cordless
phones. https://microwavenews.com/short-takes-archive/italian-decision-precaution
Why
has the BC government willfully dismissed a 10 year study by
the National Toxicology
Program (NTP) that concluded “Clear Evidence of Carcinogenic
Activity” and the association of cancer in the heart
and brain and cell phone radiation?
https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/trpanel/2018/march/peerreview20180328_508.pdf
Why
has the BC government willfully dismissed the Ramazzini Institute who also completed the world's largest animal
study on cell tower radiation and confirmed the findings of
the National Toxicology Program link to Cancer, even at
levels below those allowed by SC 6? This information
accompanied with the over 29,000 peer reviewed studies by
scientists and medical experts www.emf-portal.org/en
is more than enough evidence for the precautionary principal
to be applied. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300367?via%3Dihub
Health
is a provincial jurisdiction.
Parents, teachers and students want to know why the
BC government and the Provincial Health Officer, has refused
to “act in good faith,” by fulfilling their moral and legal
obligation, to protect our children, by taking measures to
mitigate the risk of harm from unregulated cell phone
radiation exposure while under their care in our schools?
Respectfully,
Janis
Hoffmann
Parents
for Safe Schools
