Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Mobile Learning and Health Risks Slideshow
by University of Tampere, Finland

Mobile Learning and Health Risks - Implications for Pedagogical and Educational Practices * Click on "MENU" at bottom left of screen to select "Full Screen" viewing

View more presentations from Mikko Ahonen

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Dr. George Carlo speaks on Wi-Fi Radiation in Schools

Dr. George Carlo, Ph.D, M.S., J.D, public health scientist and epidemiologist, is one of the world's leading experts on Electromagnetic Radiation. From 1993-1999, Dr. Carlo headed a $28.5 millions project, funded by the telecommunications industry, to study cellphone's health effects. He discovered that the risk of acoustic neuroma (a form of brain tumour) was 50 percent higher in long-term cellphone users, also that the amount of cellphone use and this tumor appeared to follow a dose-response curve. In recent years, Dr. Carlo has been alerting the public about the adverse health effects of cell phones and wireless radiation. He is especially concerned about the promotion of wireless technology targeted at children and youth.

This is a very informative interview of Dr. Carlo voicing why Wi-Fi is dangerous for young people and should not be used in a school setting. He also explains the "pulsed" nature of Wi-Fi routers and damages caused by "Information Carrying Radio Waves":

Part 1 (9 mins)

Part 2 (9 mins)

Part 3 (9 mins)

Illusion and Escape:

The Cell Phone Disease Quagmire
A Summary of American Legal Actions Regarding Mobile Phones and Health Effects - by Dr. George L. Carlo

http://www.cutcat.com/item_images/Cell%20Phones%20Carlo.pdf

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Israel's Position Paper on Electromagnetic Radiation in a School Environment - Nov 18, 2010

The recommendations presented in this position paper were formulated in accordance with the request of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament, D.T.) Interior and Environment Committee Chairman, MP. Dov Hanin, at a meeting of the committee on May 31^st, 2010. The Health Ministry’s representative, Prof. Siegal Sadetzki was responsible for the initiation and consolidation of these recommendations:

"In April 2009, the European Parliament, by a majority of 559-22 (votes), adopted decision ENVI/6/65496, regarding potential adverse health effects associated with electromagnetic radiation (EMF). The decision declared that wireless technology (which includes cell phones, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cordless phones) emit electromagnetic radiation which may impose danger to human health. The decision states that it is important for schools to be as “clean” as possible from electromagnetic radiation."

"It should be remembered that the school population comprises children and youth, a group with unique characteristics:

In general, for all carcinogens, including ionizing radiation, and for most cancer sites, an inverse association exists between age at time of exposure, and the risk of becoming sick. Therefore, this population should be regarded as a sensitive population in comparison to the adult population.
The student population is expected to live for many years, during which diseases with long latency periods may develop.
The student population is obligated by law to attend school. Moreover, in most cases the students and their parents do not have a choice regarding which school and which classes the student will attend.

Method of Operation:

It is agreed by all, that the education system and the country are under a moral and legal obligation to protect the health of the students.

It is agreed that the precautionary principle should be adopted as it was adopted in the Non-Ionizing Radiation Act of 2006. The principles upon which the Health Ministry based its guidelines regarding cell phones and cordless phones should also be applied to wireless network systems.

These principles should be adopted in order to achieve a balance between the needs and the potential adverse health risks from exposure to Wi-Fi and WLAN in this special population in which the exposure is forced.

Since there are alternative ways to establish computer networks which are safer and do not require exposure to RF, such as the use of wired technology by connecting directly to a internet-allocated socket, there is no reason to use wireless technologies such as WLAN and Wi-Fi for computer networks in schools."

Full Text English version: http://www.disconnectbook.com/2011/03/07/position-paper-on-electromagnetic-radiation-in-a-school-environment/
Original Text in Hebrew: http://tinyurl.com/64ptqvj

Governments of other countries (Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, China, Israel and more) protect their citizens and children by much, much stricter safety standards against electromagnetic radiation.

Our Canadian government does not.

In our schools, no preventive measure and nothing in place to monitor. How long do we have to wait to do something about this? Our school already has a hardwired network installed and functioning for years (with internet access in the computer lab as well as in each classroom). Why are we choosing to use a more risky technology (Wi-Fi) and not choosing the safer option for our children like these other governments do? As parents, we were consulted about food allergies in school, are required to sign consent forms for our children’s field trips to the skating rink, to the museum or even just a walk at the Dyke. However, we have been denied the opportunity to say NO when our children are irradiated involuntarily by microwave in schools 6 hours every day. Furthermore, it is unbelievable that the number of wireless transmitters in our hallways has been increased even while we were raising our concern to the school district’s I.T. Department.

Apart from the long-term health risks of DNA break, cell mutation, damage to the blood-brain barrier, thyroid and heart etc, some of the short-term effects of microwave radiation, as indicated in scientific studies, include lack of concentration, short-term memory loss and non-specific weakening of the immune system (drop in counts of platelets and white blood cells). The last one means getting sick more easily. Does any of the above sound like the ideal setting for children's learning environment? Also, the problem is, is anybody even checking the health effects? Do we have any unexposed control group to compare with? And simply, WHY, should we insist on this risk rather than using hardwired network? Aren't our computers hardwired for electrical supply anyway?

The latest Oscar-winning documentary, Inside Job, gives a very thorough report of the events leading to the Wall Street, Iceland and global economic collapse in 2008. There were numerous signs and warnings before the final crisis hit. Yet the government officials didn't do anything to stop it, the experts - financial analysts and credit rating bodies - didn't do anything to stop it. The Ivy League professors not only didn't say anything which could have alerted the public, they published opinions that were complete contrary to truth. The final crisis, as it turned out, has been catastrophic. And who suffered? The government officials were still in office, if not promoted; the professors still earn high paychecks from directorships in the industry. The Wall Street executives walked away with hundreds of million $ of bonus without any of them being indicted to date. The result of that crisis was the loss of a lot of money by many who could not afford it.

For us, however, it could be our health and the future of our next generation.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Electromagnetic Induction by Wi-Fi causes Human Tissue to Polarize at Twice the Frequency

The following is a letter written by Mr. Curtis Bennett to the BC Premier's Office, concerning a significant error in Health Canada's Safety Code 6, which qualifies that Wi-Fi should not be allowed in schools.

Mr. Bennett is president of Thermographix Consulting Corporation. His company investigates temperature at molecular levels for many professions. He is an educator at medical academia across North America where doctors and nurses receive education credits for licensing. Mr. Bennett testified as expert witness at the Canadian Parliament's Standing Committee on Health in 2010. He was also a first response consultant on vulnerability after 9/11.

"Health Canada isn't reporting there was a significant oversight reported (error or omission) in safety standards. That oversight is the peer reviewed science showing electromagnetic induction from the emfs is happening. That creates electrical problems with vulnerable, dynamic biology with its own electrical frequencies and causes tissue to polarize at twice the frequency.

By not reporting the error or omission, Health Canada disadvantages the province including corporations or administrations working with different aspects of wireless technology. B.C. School Districts for one are looking for the laws to administer their districts. The reported error or omission in Health Canada's Safety Code 6 qualifies that Wi Fi isn't allowed in schools and administrators, teachers as well as parents aren't being informed of that.

Radiation Protection Services of The BC Centre of Disease Control's reporting on Wi Fi Safety is seriously flawed as a result of the error or omission in safety standards. You can't exclude the frequency conflict between Wi Fi and people.

The dangers of emfs including the error in safety standards were lectured in medical education for education credits health professionals need for licensing in January, 2011. That makes the information medical education accepted for lecture."

Please click the image to read the full text of the letter:

The World Health Organization

These two documentaries, by CBC TV The National, explain the politics behind the science:

Cell Phones and Insurance Companies (September, 2010)

Cell Phone Radiation (September 2010)

WHO (World Health Organization), FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and Health Canada base their standard of Microwave radiation on the guideline set up by ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation).

The following is a detailed analysis of the WHO/ICNIRP 's EMF standard by Dr. Neil Cherry: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3718366/Cherry-1 It is a very thorough MUST-READ document for anyone seeking to understand WHO's position on EMF,"originally written when the New Zealand Ministries of Health and Environment proposed to adopt the ICNIRP Guideline as the Public Health Standard for Cell Site exposures."
The late Dr. Neil Cherry was New Zealand's leading scientist. He held the position of Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Lincoln University, and had a professional scientific background in Physics, Biophysics, Meteorology, Agricultural and Human Biometeorology, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Epidemiology. He was awarded the Royal Honour of Officer of New Zealand Order of Merit (O.N.Z.M.) for his services to Science, Education and Community. http://www.neilcherry.com/profile.php

In the Official WHO literature, the adverse health effects of Microwave and other Electromagnetic Fields are consistently downplayed. Even though there are official documents from individual countries presenting the urgent need for change in safety standards to protect the public (especially the vulnerable population including children), such requests are not reflected in the final public announcements.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING SEVERE WARNING presented by the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection to WHO, and compare it with the WHO fact sheet on cellphones which states, "Key Facts: To date, no adverse health effects have been established for mobile phone use."

Decision of Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
"CHILDREN AND MOBILE PHONES:
THE HEALTH OF THE FOLLOWING GENERATIONS IS IN DANGER"
Moscow, Russia

14 April 2008

For the first time in history, we face a situation when most children and teenagers in the world are continuously exposed to the potentially adverse influence of the electromagnetic fields (EMF) from mobile phones. Electromagnetic field is an important biotropic factor, affecting not just a human health in general, but also the processes of the higher nervous activity, including behavior and thinking. Radiation directly affects human brain when people use mobile phones.

Despite the recommendations, listed in the Sanitary Rules of the Ministry of Health, which insist that persons under 18 years should not use mobile phones (SanPiN 2.1.8/2.2.4.1190-03 point 6.9), children and teenagers became the target group for the marketing the mobile communications.

The current safety standards for exposure to microwaves from the mobile phones have been developed for the adults and don’t consider the characteristic features of the children’s organism. The WHO considers the protection of the children’s health from possible negative influence of the EMF of the mobile phones as a highest priority task. This problem has also been confirmed by the Scientific Committee of the European Commission, by national authorities of the European and Asian countries, by participants of the International scientific conferences on biological effects of the EMF.

Potential risk for the children’s health is very high:

the absorption of the electromagnetic energy in a child’s head is considerably higher than that in the head of an adult (children’s brain has higher conductivity, smaller size, thin skull bones, smaller distance from the antenna etc.);

children’s organism has more sensitivity to the EMF, than the adult’s;

children’s brain has higher sensitivity to the accumulation of the adverse effects under conditions of chronic exposure to the EMF;

EMF affects the formation of the process of the higher nervous activity;

today’s children will spend essentially longer time using mobile phones, than today’s adults will.

According to the opinion of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, the following health hazards are likely to be faced by the children mobile phone users in the nearest future: disruption of memory, decline of attention, diminishing learning and cognitive abilities, increased irritability, sleep problems, increase in sensitivity to the stress, increased epileptic readiness.

Expected (possible) remote health risks: brain tumors, tumors of acoustical and vestibular nerves (in the age of 25-30 years), Alzheimer’s disease, “got dementia”, depressive syndrome, and the other types of degeneration of the nervous structures of the brain (in the age of 50 to 60).

The members of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection emphasize ultimate urgency to defend children’s health from the influence of the EMF of the mobile communication systems. We appeal to the government authorities, to the entire society to pay closest attention to this coming threat and to take adequate measures in order to prevent negative consequences to the future generation’s health.

The children using mobile communication are not able to realize that they subject their brain to the EMF radiation and their health – to the risk. We believe that this risk is not much lower than the risk to the children’s health from tobacco or alcohol. It is our professional obligation not to let damage the children’s health by inactivity.

Full text: Pg.3-4 at

http://www.who.int/peh-emf/project/mapnatreps/RUSSIA%20report%202008.pdf

WHO Fact Sheet on Cell Phones and Health:

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/

As mentioned in another article on CHINA, Russia and other communist countries are very aware of the harm of microwave radiation, because low-level microwave was a heavily deployed "invisible" weapon against embassy staff between US/UK and the communist nations during the Cold War, causing widespread cancers and mental illnesses among emabassy personnel.

The following study was published in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine - April 2006:

Conflict of Interest & Bias in Health Advisory Committees: A case study of the WHO’s Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Task Group
by Don Maisch

Full text: http://www.emfacts.com/papers/who_conflict.pdf

"It is acknowledged that in an ever increasingly globalized world the reliance on international organisations to set standards to protect public health is an irrefutable fact of modern life. It is also a fact that international organizations charged with this task need to be “eternally vigilant” to ensure that their organisations are not co-opted by vested interests groups – as exampled by Big Tobacco and WHO.

However when it comes to non-ionizing radiation issues (in this case for power frequency health risk assessment) the evidence is clear that Michael Repacholi has used his standing in both WHO and ICNIRP to stack the WHO’s Environmental Health Criteria Task Group for power frequency exposures with representatives of the power industry in contravention of WHO policy. This can only be to the detriment of the group’s ability to evaluate the scientific literature in an unbiased way. This action can only be construed as being aimed at ensuring that industry involvement in determining the WHO Environmental Health Criteria will bias ICNIRP’s risk assessment for power frequency exposure limits for years to come. This will conveniently provide economic protection for the industry against the need to spend enormous sums of money on upgrading distribution systems as well as risks of litigation. Such a blatant disregard for the fundamental principles of credible science, as well as WHO’s mission on protecting world health, speaks of a desperation to bury independent science at all costs, even if that cost is the integrity of WHO."

Friday, February 18, 2011

Surprise! China's Safety Standard >100 times stricter than Canada's

中文按此
Many people would be surprised to know that CHINA actually has a safety standard in electromagnetic radiation which is much stricter than our Canadian one.

Reasons:

(1) During the Cold War, the embassies of the communist countries and US/UK were heavily zapping each others with low-level microwave, causing embassy staff to have cancers and mental illnesses. China was well aware of the potential harm that electromagnetic radiation could lead to.

http://inthesenewtimes.com/2010/04/24/barrie-trower-on-microwave-radiation-stealth-warfare-and-public-health/

http://www.amazon.com/Zapping-America-Microwaves-Deadly-Cover-Up/product-reviews/0393009319/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

De-classified Naval Research Report on MICROWJAVE AND RADIO-FREQUENCY RADIATION compiled in 1971, after the Cold War was over:

http://safeschool.ca/uploads/Navy_Radiowave_Brief_1_.pdf

(2) China is one of the few countries (if not the only one!) which has conducted large-scale microwave radiation study on humans. In the 1980s, in one study they use 1312 workers, divided them into a control group plus two groups of different occupational radiation levels. In another study, they used 1859 youngsters (kindergarten to college age). 1170 subjects were divided into various ages and exposure levels. Another group of 689 subjects at the same ages and grades acted as the control group. The "results showed that chronic exposure to EMFs are associated with a variety of non-specific symptoms, including increased frequency of neuroses, liability of vegetation nervous system, and slight changes in peripheral blood, lens, and non-specific immune function... the existence of health hazardous effects of RF (radiofrequency) and MW (microwave) could not be denied." http://www.salzburg.gv.at/Proceedings_%2820%29_Chiang.pdf

Based on those studies, the "General Public Exposure Limits to RF Radiation in China (by Ministry of Health)" for the range of >0.3-300 GHz (incl. Wi-Fi range 2.4 GHz) was set at 10 μW/cm2.

In 2006, with further EMF studies and scientific findings, National Institute for Environmental Health and Related Product Safety in Beijing called for a further reduction on the exposure level. According to Professor Zhaojin Cao, "To sum up, recent ten years (1994-2004) epidemiological studies in EMF in China found that low intensity EMF might have some bad effects on health, and what should be highly concerned is that some bad effects were caused by exposure lower than the present EMF limit. As above mentioned, precaution strategy should be adopted when amending and prescribing new exposure limit for the public."

http://www.icems.eu/docs/Cao.pdf

Prof. Zhaojin Cao directs the National Institute for Environmental Health & Related Product Safety, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, located in Beijing China. Since 1997, he has published research on mobile phone health effects and protection. He is a member of the WHO EMF Project's International Advisary Committee (IAC). He is a member of the Chinese Biomedicine Engineering Association, and is the editor of the Journal of Hygiene Research.

http://www.icems.eu/docs/bios_Cao.pdf

Please note that Health Canada's current "safety" limit is 1000 μW/cm2 - more than 100 times higher than that of China and many countries in the world:

    * USA\Canada = 1000 μW/cm2 (microwatts /cm2)
  * Italy, Russia, Poland, Paris (France),
        China, Switzerland, Hungary = 4.25-10 μW or lower/cm2

* Belgium (Brussels, Wallonia, Flanders),
Bulgaria, Luxembourg = 2.4 μW
* Salzburg (Austria) = 0.001-0.0001 μW/cm2 (outdoor-indoor)

Latest ( 2011 ) Safety Limit p roposed by European Scientists based on biological effects discovered: 0.017 μW/cm2

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

How to reduce Wi-Fi (Microwave) Radiation on our Children

While we continue to demand our Canadian Government to lower the Electromagnetic Fields exposure limit in our country, it is impossible to avoid ALL exposure. The malls, e.g. are filled with multiple overlapping Wi-Fi coverage from 6-12 networks at any given time.

However, we can reduce the radiation exposure and risk to our children by 70-80% IF:

1) We turn off Wi-Fi and go back to hardwired network in school,
2) Parents reduce Wi-Fi exposure by either hardwiring computer connection at home (just buy a cable!), or by turning Wi-Fi off when it’s not used, especially overnight.

Remember: Every Wi-Fi transmitter, if left on, continues to pulse 2.4 billion cycles of microwave frequency per second into its surroundings. This frequency goes through walls and humans bodies.

For other precautions, visit: http://wiredchild.org
Good tips about Cell phone use by Cardiologist Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra: http://www.heartmdinstitute.com/wireless-safety/ban-wifi-schools
DECT Cordless House Phones: http://www.magdahavas.com/2010/10/21/new-study-radiation-from-cordless-phone-base-station-affects-the-heart/

Coast News Group Doctor on Electromagnetic Radiation:

Friday, February 4, 2011

LATEST WARNING: Wi-Fi Dangerous to Children and Pregnant Women - Must Read!

From the Karolinska Institute
(Nobel Prize Institute)
Department of Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden

February 3, 2011

Scientists Urge Halt of Wireless Rollout and Call for New Safety Standards: Warning Issued on Risks to Children and Pregnant Women

"Scientists who study radiofrequency radiation from wireless technologies have issued a scientific statement warning that exposures may be harming the development of children at levels now commonly found in the environment. Pregnant women are cautioned to avoid using wireless devices themselves and distance themselves from other users..."

"Current US (Canada) and ICNIRP standards for radiofrequency and microwave radiation from wireless technologies are entirely inadequate. They never were intended to address the kind of
exposures from wireless devices that now affect over 4 billion people."

"The combined effect of cell phones, cordless phones, cell towers, WI-FI and wireless internet place billions of people around the world at risk for cancer, neurological disease and reproductive and developmental impairments."

"We are already seeing increases in health problems such as cancer and neurobehavioural impairments, even though these wireless technologies are fairly new in the last decades or so for the general public. This finding suggests that the exposures are already too high to protect people from health harm."

"Safety standards also ignore the developing fetus, and young children who are more affected."

"The Scientific Panel urges a halt to the rollout of new wireless technologies, especially those that cause exposures for pregnant women and for children."

The Seletun Scientific Statement

1) Low-intensity (non-thermal) bioeffects and adverse health effects are demonstrated at levels significantly below existing exposure standards for telecommunications and power utility technologies in developed and developing countries.

2) ICNIRP and IEEE/FCC (Health Canada) public safety limits are inadequate and obsolete with respect to prolonged, low-intensity exposures common today.

3) New, biologically-based public exposure standards are urgently needed to protect public health world-wide.

4) It is not in the public interest to wait. Instead, governments should take decisive action now to protect biological function as well as the health of future generations.

A rapidly accumulating body of scientific evidence of harm to health and well-being constitute warnings that adverse health effects can occur with short-term and prolonged exposures to very low-intensity
EMF at biologically active frequencies or frequency combinations.

1. The Global Population Is At Risk.
2. Sensitive Populations Are Currently Vulnerable. Sensitive populations (for example, the elderly, the ill, the genetically and/or immunologically challenged) and children and fetuses may be
additionally vulnerable to health risks; their exposures are largely involuntary and they are less protected by existing public safety standards; and they may amount to 40-50% of the population;

3. Government Actions Are Warranted Now Based on Evidence of Serious Disruption to Biological Systems... the consequence of doing nothing in the short term may cause irreparable public health and economic harm, where the populations potentially at risk are very large, where there are alternatives without similar risks, or where the exposures are largely involuntary;

4. The Burden of Proof for the Safety of Radiation-Emitting Technologies Should Fall on Producers and Providers Not Consumers.

5. EMF Exposures Should Be Reduced in Advance of Complete Understanding of Mechanisms of Action.

6. The Current Accepted Measure of Radiation Risk—the Specific Absorption Rate (‘SAR’)—Is Inadequate, and Misguides on Safety and Risk.

New Recommended Exposure Standards

Based on power density measurements, the Seletun Scientific Panel finds sufficient evidence for a whole-body scientific benchmark for adverse health effect exists down to 0.17 mW/m2 (also 0.000017 mW/cm2 = 0.017 μW/cm2). It is approx. 50,000 – 60,000 times lower than the current ICNIRP/FCC standards.This may need to be lowered in the future.

Editor: Current exposure standard upheld by Health Canada is at 1,000μW/cm2(microwatts/cm2). The above recommendation is at 0.017 μW/cm2. The standards set by governments for most of the other countries are currently at 10 μW/cm2 or less (down to 0.02μW). Yes, our ridiculously lenient exposure limit is 58,824 times higher than this recommendation based on the latest scientific research. Our government is NOT taking the "Precautionary Principle" to protect Canadians. Please see "The Essential Message" on this website for more on the comparison.

Karolinska Institute is Europe's highest-ranked university in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy. Karolinska is world-renowned for its achievements in medical and biomedical research in all disease areas. Particular strengths are in neuroscience, cancer biology, immunology, and metabolic diseases. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute appoints the laureates for the "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine".

The "Precautionary Principle" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
"The Essential Message" http://www.safeinschool.org/2011/01/health-canadas-safety-standard-on.html
Full Transcript of The Seletun Scientific Statement http://electromagnetichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Seletun-Transcript.pdf
Full Text of the Press Release http://electromagnetichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Karolinska_Institute_press_release1.pdf

Video of Professor Olle Johansson's Announcing Seletun Scientific Statement:

http://vimeo.com/18018440

A Significant Error or Omission in Health Canada's Safety Code 6

- Three Letters by Curtis Bennett

Mr. Bennett is president of Thermographix Consulting Corporation. His company investigates temperature at molecular levels for many professions. He is an educator at medical academia across North America where doctors and nurses receive education credits for licensing. Mr. Bennett testified as expert witness at the Canadian Parliament's Standing Committee on Health in "An Examination Of The Potential Health Impacts Of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation" in 2010. He was also a first response consultant on vulnerability after 9/11.

A letter to U.S. President Barack Obama regarding the Danger of Health Canada's Safety Code on Electromagnetic Radiation:
(Please click image to enlarge for reading)

A letter to the Victoria School District on a Significant Error in Health Canada's Safety Code 6:
(Please click image to enlarge for reading)

January 20th, 2011

Health Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0K9

Att: Health Minister

cc: Environment Commissioner, MP Ron Cannan, Health Canada's Standing Committee, IBEW, Safe Schools, Premiers

Re: Safety Code 6 Oversight Recommendations of Standing Committee on Health

Dear Minister Aglukkaq;

Safety Code 6 is the scientific standard used around the world for human exposure to radio-frequency emfs. Provinces refer to Health Canada for safety standards.

A significant error or omission in Safety Code 6 was reported to your office and by witness for Canadian Parliament's Standing Committee on Health in October 2010. The Recommendations of The Standing Committee in December, 2010 included Health Canada investigating the oversight reported in Safety Code 6.

Health Canada and provinces can qualify the error and omission through their existing provincial electrical standards. Electromagnetic induction on a bare conductor (human) running at their own frequency brings on a host of electrical problems for the unprotected including the heat effect. Safety Code 6 says the electromagnetic induction is to be avoided because experimental studies have shown nerve and muscle depolarization. Depolarization is part of the natural process but you don't want it initiated because of emf induction.

As an example Wi Fi in schools violates Health Canada's Safety Code 6 because the very fast frequency interaction with the unprotected children is causing electromagnetic induction associated with nerve and muscle depolarization or a heat effect.

Wi Fi is only installed for cost convenience or profit because radiating an entire area is cheaper than construction/electrical costs to install it safely. Wired computer stations deliver data faster, safer and sustainable while providing real economy while advancing technology in education.

Has Health Canada followed the recommendations of the committee and forwarded the oversight to recognized testing agencies or electrical certification? Why isn't Health Canada sharing the significant oversight with provinces? Every day of radiation is producing adverse health effects as reported by Health Canada with unrealized costs with the domino effect.

The dangers of radio frequency interaction with humans including the oversight in Safety Code 6 were just lectured in U.S. Medical Education where doctors and other health professionals get education credits they need for licensing. That makes the dangers and the oversight medical education, not just an opinion. As a professional with national and provincial credentials provided by government, I am again reporting this as a national emergency.

Sincerely

Curtis Bennett
President

Thermografix Consulting Corporation

http://thermoguy.com/blog/index.php?itemid=49

Analyzing the Health Impacts of Modern Telecommunications Microwaves
A peer reviewed and published scientific article January 2011 from University of Athens, Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics:

"In the present study we showed that microwave radiations used in modern mobile telecommunications can damage DNA and induce cell death or heritable mutations which may in turn result in reproduction decreases, degenerative deceases, or cancer. We analyzed the biophysical and biochemical mechanism underlying this biological impact, and discussed dosimetry and protection issues...

The mission of technology is putatively to improve the living conditions of the human race. Technological evolution is accomplished by use of the natural powers, such as electromagnetism. But the use of these powers and the improvement of the living conditions must always be carried out without violating the natural environment, the powers of which we are actually using, and without undermining human health. Knowing the dangers of each new technological achievement and finding ways to use technology safely, might be even more important than technology itself."

Full text http://www.citizensforsafetechnology.org/Analysing-the-Health-Impacts-of-modern-telecommunications-microwaves,2,376

For more studies on the biological effects of Wi-Fi (Microwave) and Radiofrequency, please see http://www.safeinschool.org/2011/01/danger-of-wi-fi-backed-by-science.html

Thursday, February 3, 2011

We are not alone! Victoria School District is re-evaluating the safety of Wi-Fi

CST-Victoria (a group of concerned parents and citizens) is calling for the Board of School District 61 to adopt the Precautionary Principle and not install any more wireless Internet systems in public schools until it can be proven safe.

The Greater Victoria School District has set up a sub-committee to re-evaluate the safety of Wi-Fi technology in schools, and has started the first of a series of meetings on the issue.

Press Release - a great summary of the concerns:
http://www.citizensforsafetechnology.org/Concerned-Parents--Citizens-Opposed-to-WiFi-in-Schools,19,416

"A Channels" News TV coverage on SD61's first Committee meeting on Wi-Fi:
http://www.citizensforsafetechnology.org/WiFi-Committee-Meeting-Victoria-School-District,2,369

Greater Victoria Teachers Association (GVTA):
https://sites.google.com/site/wifiinschools/http://gvtahands.blogspot.com/p/wifi-in-schools.html http://staffroomconfidential.blogspot.com/2010/10/wifi-in-schools-safety-risk.html

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

The Essential Message

What is Wi-Fi?

It provides wireless internet and network access for computers in School
Commonly broadcasts at 2.4 GHz, or 2,400 MHz, microwave radio frequency (2.4 billion cycles per second)
While cellphones mainly affect the person using the cellphone during transmission, a Wi-Fi transmitter pulses 10 times per second, and the microwaves go through every person inside the coverage area during every second of exposure

If you are unfamiliar with the issue about Wi-Fi in schools. Please take a look at this program by CBC The National*.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKyL_brkY5U

* The Bioinitiative Report - dismissed by Health Canada as not being accepted by "the international scientific community" - was the very study on which the European Parliament based their 2008 resolution to take a "Precautionary Approach" and set stricter electromagnetic waves exposure limits in its 27 Member countries. The European Parliament adopted that resolution almost unanimously, by 522 votes to 16!

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/FindByProcnum.do?lang=en&procnum=INI/2007/2252

We often hear the comment about the frequency or wattage of Wi-Fi signals being "WAY below Health Canada's standards".

Why?

Health Canada's standard is embodied in a document known as "Safety Code 6", which defines the "Limits of Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields in the Frequency Range from 3 kHz to 300 GHz".

According to SC6, Microwave has an exposure limit of 10 watts per meter squared. We need to convert this to microwatts per cm squared in order that it can be compared with other countries. 10 watts per meter squared = 1,000 microwatts per cm squared.

Health Canada's focus is on thermal effect or temperature change in the body.

Comparison of our limit alongside other countries' standards:

USA\Canada = 1000 microwatts /cm2 (same as ICNIRP 1998)
Australia = 200 microwatts /cm2
Auckland (New Zealand) = 50 microwatts /cm2
Italy, Russia, Poland, Luxembourg, Paris (France), Hungary, Bulgaria, China, Switzerland = 2.4 to 10 microwatts /cm2
Salzburg (Austria) = 0.0001 microwatts /cm2

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