Biologically Safe Levels For Wireless Exposure Have Never Been Established

Biologically safe levels for long-term exposure to pulsed modulated non-ionizing wireless radiation at non-thermal levels, what today's wireless technology exposes us to, have never been established by any United States health regulatory agency.  Current safety guidelines are based upon the heating of tissue, or thermal effects, from short-term exposures only, and do not consider long-term non-thermal effects.

"The RFR (radiofrequency radiation) exposure limits were designed to protect the general public only from heating risks due to short-term exposure to this type of non-ionizing radiation. The limits were not designed to protect individuals from chronic exposure to low-intensity (i.e., non-thermal levels of) RFR. Yet the preponderance of peer-reviewed research on low-intensity RFR exposure finds biological effects and adverse health effects."  ~ Joel M. Moskowitz,  Ph.D., Director of the Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley | Worldwide Radio Frequency Radiation Exposure Limits versus Health Effects

In 2002 (and prior) the EPA questioned the adequacy of the current U.S. RFR safety guidelines established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1996.  Yet U.S. RFR exposure guidelines are still the same today as they were in 1996, and are based upon thermal, or heating effects, only.  They still do not consider long-term exposure at non-thermal levels.

The 4G / 5G small cell antenna infrastructure is creating long-term exposures to exponentially higher levels of RFR at non-thermal levels.  NO safety is assured.

If someone tells you that 5G technology is going to use lower power or lower energy levels than 4G and 3G (and therefore assumed 'safer'), let them know it's not the power levels or energy levels that elicit the most severe  adverse biological effects.  It's the pulses and modulation that appear to be so biologically damaging, according to the scientists and medical professionals who have been studying this issue (see images HERE for a better understanding of modulation).

The 5G wireless infrastructure is in ADDITION to the 3G / 4G infrastructure, adding exponential levels of RFR to our environment, with no biological health impact or environmental impact assessment.

Large cell towers are not being removed as the 4G / 5G infrastructure is being built.  In fact, many large cell towers are getting taller with more cells and antenna.  RFR measurements are increasing exponentially across Michigan as the 4G / 5G infrastructure is being installed.

Because safe levels for long-term exposure to pulsed modulated non-ionizing RFR at non-thermal levels have never been established, we have absolutely NO assurance of safety from any of the wireless technology we are exposed to over the long-term.

We can limit cell phone use, use speaker-phone or air-tubes, turn WiFi 'off' at night, and shield 'smart' meter RFR.  But when a small cell antenna is installed on a light pole outside our bedroom window, our options to avoid excessive untested exposure to RFR  (already making some people very ill) are limited.

This is why we need an immediate moratorium on wireless infrastructure expansion including small cell antenna installations until safe levels for long-term exposure to pulsed modulated non-ionizing RFR at non-thermal levels are established. 

To protect your health, and the health of your loved-ones, please contact state lawmakers and ask for legislation placing a moratorium on wireless expansion until a systematic review of the science is done by independent researchers without conflicts of interest, and safe levels are established for long-term exposure to pulsed modulated non-ionizing RFR at non-thermal levels.

5G: Increasing Possibilities Exponentially

US Senator Blumenthal Raises Concerns on 5G Wireless Technology Health Risks at United States Senate Hearing

"We're kind of... flying blind here, as far as health and safety is concerned."

Actually... not "blind" when you take into consideration the studies that have been done using millimeter waves and wireless microwave radio frequency radiation:

• 5G Wireless Technology: Millimeter Wave Health Effects
• Effects of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Radiation on the Eye
• Human Skin as Arrays of Helical Antennas in the Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Range
• Millimeter Wave Radiations Affect Membrane Hydration in Phosphatidylcholine Vesicles
• Bioeffects Research for Emerging RF Technologies - millimeter waves
• Electromagnetic fields act via activation of voltage‐gated calcium channels to produce beneficial or adverse effects
• Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health
• Scientific evidence contradicts findings and assumptions of Canadian Safety Panel 6: microwaves act through voltage-gated calcium channel activation to induce biological impacts at non-thermal levels, supporting a paradigm shift for microwave/lower frequency electromagnetic field action
• Electrosmog and autoimmune disease

And that is just a small fraction of studies done showing biological effects from wireless microwave radio frequency radiation.  There are literally thousands...

So we're not kind of flying blind here.

What IS happening is the Federal Communications Commission and the Food and Drug Administration, those who are supposed to protect public health and public safety, are blatantly disregarding the evidence of harm.  

There's no question that the "possibility" of harm exists with wireless radiofrequency radiation.  5G infrastructure with perhaps hundreds of thousands of new small cell antennas installed just about everywhere, including in front of our homes, increases that "possibility" exponentially.

5G Wireless: A Dangerous ‘Experiment on Humanity’

Bravo to RT for doing this important 5G story!

"Is there a catch?"

"There is. Just a small one. It might kill you... This is an experiment on humanity and that this should be called a crime under international law... Science shows that this causes DNA damage, cancer, among other things..."

Dr. Sharon Goldberg:

"Wireless radiation has biological effects. Period. This is no longer a subject for debate when you look at PubMed and the peer-review literature. These effects are seen in all life forms; plants, animals, insects, microbes. In humans we have clear evidence of cancer now. There is no question. We have evidence of DNA damage, cardiomyopathy, which is the precursor of congestive heart failure, neuropsychiatric effects..."

Michele Greenstein:

"There's going to be a cell tower in front of every few houses..."

Dr. David Carpenter:

"There's been no safety testing of 5G.  The reason I think that it's dangerous is that there isn't any specific information to 5G, but we know that radiofrequency radiation of 3G and 4G are associated with a whole variety of different human health effects.  Everyone is going to be exposed to radiofrequency radiation more continuously and at higher intensities, and that's going to cause more human disease."

Michele Greenstein:

"And the fact is the government is completely not jumping on the ball because of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which says that no state or local government can regulate the placement of any cell towers regardless of environmental effects.  That has really laid the groundwork for this toxic infrastructure...  And the FCC, which has no health expertise itself, is completely captured by the wireless industry..."

"You know who hasn't been fooled?  The insurance companies.  They are not selling any product liability policies that cover cell phone radiation..." 

Video description:

"Scientists, environmental groups, doctors and citizens around the world are appealing to all governments to halt telecommunications companies’ deployment of 5G (fifth generation) wireless networks, which they call 'an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under international law.' Research has shown that wireless radiation can cause DNA damage, neuropsychiatric effects and other health problems. RT America’s Michele Greenstein joins Rick Sanchez to discuss."

Sharon Goldberg, MD, 
Integrative & Functional Medicine Physician

Sharon Goldberg is an Integrative/Functional Medicine physician in private practice. Her background includes fifteen years as an academic Hospital Medicine physician and clinician educator who helped train hundreds of medical students and resident physicians. She was an Assistant Professor at New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine, and has advanced training in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Lima, Peru. Her clinical and research interests include dietary, lifestyle and environmental modifications in the setting of complex chronic disease. Dr. Goldberg has clinical expertise in environmental intolerance including Microwave Sickness (Electro-Sensitivity).

David Carpenter, MD
Director, Institute for Health and the Environment
University of Albany, NY

Professor David Carpenter, MD is a world renowned public health expert, including the issue of electromagnetic fields and wireless radiation. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Health and Environment, in the University of Albany, a collaborating center for the World Health Organization. He is also a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University at Albany.

Previously, he was Chairman of the Neurobiology Department of Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute at the Defense Nuclear Agency in Washington, DC. He was also the Director of Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health, the third largest public health laboratory in the US after NIH and CDC.

He holds several research positions including at the National Institutes of Mental Health. Dr. Carpenter’s research initially was basic neurobiology, and more recently has primarily been the study of human disease resulting from exposure to environmental contaminants including non-ionizing radiation.

Dr Carpenter is a Harvard trained physician and researcher. He is author of more than 350 scientific papers; has edited five books; and he is the Editor in Chief of two scientific journals.

Prof. Carpenter’s work on Non-Ionizing radiation started when he arrived in Albany in 1980 as the Director of the Wadsworth Laboratories of the New York State Department of Health, he was given the responsibility of administering a program to determine whether there were adverse human health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs), initiated because of concern of hazards from high voltage powerlines. A 5 million dollar research program was begun, and when finished in 1987 the program concluded that while there were effects of EMFs on many organ systems, a particular concern was an increased incidence of leukemia in children living in home with elevated magnetic fields. After that time Dr. Carpenter became for the spokesperson for New York State on issues related to EMFs. He has continued to evaluate research in this area, and has edited two books and written several review articles on the subject. He testified before the President’s Cancer Panel in 2009 on human health effects of both power line and radiofrequency EMFs from a variety of sources, particularly from cell phones. He is the Co-Editor of the Bioinitiative Report (www.bioinitiative.org), published first in 2007 and revised in 2012. This is a comprehensive review of the effects of EMFs.

WeAreTheEvidence.org

UN Staff Member: 5G Is War on Humanity

Claire Edwards, UN staff member, addresses UN Secretary General:

Mr. Secretary General, UN staff have repeatedly been told that they are the most important resource of this organization.  Since December 2015, the staff here at the Vienna International Center have been exposed to off-the-scale electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from WiFi and mobile phone boosters installed on very low ceilings throughout the buildings.  

Current public exposure levels are at least one quintillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000) - that's eighteen zeros - one quintillion times above natural background radiation, according to Professor Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.  

The highly dangerous biological effects of EMFs have been documented by thousands of studies since 1932, indicating that we may be facing a global health catastrophe orders of magnitude worse than those caused by tobacco and cigarettes.  

Mr. Secretary General, on the basis of the precautionary principle I urge you to have these EMF-emitting devices removed immediately from these buildings, and to call a halt to any roll-out of 5G at UN duty stations, because 5G is designed to deliver concentrated and focused electromagnetic radiation in excess of 100 times current levels, in the same way as do directed energy weapons.  

In line with the UN guiding principles on business and human rights - to protect, respect, and remedy - 5G technologies must be subjected to an independent health and safety assessment before they are launched anywhere in the world.  

There is currently an international appeal signed by 237 EMF scientists from 41 nations, urging the UN and particularly the WHO to exert strong leadership in fostering the development of more protective EMF guidelines, encouraging precautionary measures and educating the public about the considerable health risks, particularly the risks to children and fetal development.  

Mr. Secretary General, I think we have a unique opportunity here at the UN office at Vienna.  Since our medical records are digitized, you have the choice on the possibility of releasing data on a closed population exposed to off-the-scale levels of electromagnetic radiation in a metal-walled building, which exacerbates the situation, to establish if there have already been abnormal health consequences for the UN staff here, in the last 28 months.  I urge you to do so, and stop any roll-out of 5G immediately.  

Thank you.

See Take Back Your Power for additional information and transcript.



More information:

• Environmental Health Trust: WHO/IARC Position On Wireless And Health | World Health Organization International Agency For The Research On Cancer’s Position On Wireless And Health
• Harvard Ethics Dept:  Captured Agency: How the FCC is Dominated by the Industries it Presumably Regulates
• Powerwatch | Studies
• EMF-Portal | Studies
• BioInitiative | Studies
• Just Prove It | Studies 

"Cell Phones Cause Cancer" - Jimmy Gonzalez, Attorney (1972 - 2014)

"Cell phones cause cancer. That's what numerous doctors and scientists from all around the world have been warning us about for years... I for one happen to KNOW that cell phones DO cause cancer..."

Jimmy Gonzalez developed cancers and tumors in three places related to his cell phone use:

• His left hand where he held his cell phone during use
• The left side of his head where he placed his cell phone when in use
• His lower chest where he stored his cell phone when not in use

From the video description:

Jimmy Gonzalez's testimony to the Pembroke Pines Commission resulted in the passing of a Resolution to raise awareness on the health risks of cell phone radiation. 

Learn more about the state of science on cell phone radiation at The Environmental Health Trust. Several cities and countries are taking action to raise awareness about how people can protect themselves.  

Please see the full list at Database Of Worldwide Policies On Cell Phones, Wireless And Health (EHTrust.org).  Jimmy Gonzalez' words will save lives.

But only if we listen and act upon the information Jimmy and others have shared. Information is useless unless it's used.

History shows us that sometimes government agencies are not the first to act when it comes to protecting the health and safety of the public. So if you are waiting for some kind of "official" announcement, well, please listen to Jimmy again.

Regarding teens and adolescents using cell phones...

From Brain Tumor Histology and Incidence in Adolescents and Young Adults:

Malignant brain tumors are the most common cause of cancer deaths in adolescents and young adults aged 15-39, and are the most common cancer occurring in 15-19 year-olds.  

Fifteen to 19 year-olds were born between 1998/1999 and 2002/2003.  In 2002, a little over 60% of Americans used a cellphone (Pew Research Center). That means today's adolescents more than likely grew up with parents that used a cellphone and perhaps became early users themselves. 

Currently 100% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 in the U.S. own a cellphone (see Pew Research Center link above).  And now malignant brain tumors are the most common cause of cancer deaths in that age group. 

In 2012 I bought my first cell phone. Less than a year later I had to stop putting it to my ear because of constant burning pain I felt when I did. Perhaps I'm one of the "lucky" ones, to feel the pain.  Though I don't think luck had anything to do with it, and I'm not the only one that feels electromagnetic fields.  There are many others.  We are the evidence that wireless technology can and does cause harm.  Jimmy tried to tell us this before he died.

My wish for 2019:

It will be the year of massive awareness of wireless radiation health effects,  along with massive mitigation, correction, retraction, repayment, reorganization, and elimination regarding wireless technology and high electromagnetic fields (EMFs), (according to Building Biologist standards), which includes but is not limited to: "smart" meters, transmitting utility meters, 5G small cell towers, mega cell towers, WiFi in schools, and "dirty electricity". 

Safe levels of wireless radiation need to be determined and strictly followed and enforced in public areas.  For the health of it! For our children, and our children's children's children. 

It is time to stop this EMF freight-train and put 'er in reverse... 

"It's time to EMF - off..."

...and begin reducing our exposure.  

For more information, please see:

• National Toxicology Program: Peer & public review of cell phone radiation study reports
• “Clear Evidence Of Cancer” From Cell Phone Radiation: U.S. National Toxicology Program Releases Final Report On Animal Study
• Cell Phone Radiation Study Confirms Cancer Risk
• “Clear Evidence” of Cancer Risk: NTP Cell Phone Study Results Complete and Reproducible
• Jimmy Gonzalez – The Pembroke Pines, Florida Resolution On Cell Phone Radiation

5G: "The wireless industry is lying about health..."

"People are currently getting very sick and dying with neurological disease and cancer near cell towers. There are testimonials which we have from almost every state. With the recent findings of 'Clear Evidence of Carcinogenicity' in the $25 Million US NIH funded National Toxicology Program Study and others like it, we have enough scientific evidence to re-classify wireless radiation as a Class 1 Human Carcinogen like Asbestos and Cigarette smoke. Thus we should be warning and minimizing exposure, not maximizing exposure as we are doing with 5G which will require the installation of 800,000 new cell tower antennas." Contact 5gisharmful@gmail.com Also see: http://5ginformation.net/ http://www.calibta.org/ https://wearetheevidence.org/ https://ehtrust.org/ https://www.saferemr.com/ http://www.bioinitiative.org/conclusi... https://emfscientist.org/ http://scientists4wiredtech.com/ https://whatis5g.info/ https://mdsafetech.org/ https://www.emf-portal.org/en https://microwavenews.com/ http://www.parentsforsafetechnology.o... https://generationzapped.com/ http://manhattanneighbors.org/ http://mystreetmychoice.com/index.html https://www.electrosmogprevention.org/ http://www.ehs-mcs.org/en/ http://www.justproveit.net/ https://magdahavas.com/ http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/ http://smartmetereducationnetwork.com... https://www.emfacts.com/ http://c4st.org/ https://www.electricsense.com/ http://usbraintumorassociation.org/ National Toxicology Cellphone Radiation Study Peer Review: http://bit.ly/2PFl8e8 MichiganSafeTechnology.com

Senator Blumenthal 5G Safety Statement

Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) 5G Safety Statement, December 3, 2018

"We're talking about health and safety."

"The America people deserve more from the Federal Communications Commission than they are getting right now, and that's why I'm going to be demanding answers and studies..."

• Captured Agency: How the FCC is Dominated by the Industries it Presumably Regulates
• Millimeter waves (5G) SAR and Human Sweat Glands
• 5G Wireless Technology: Millimeter Wave Health Effects
• Effects of Microwave and Millimeter Wave Radiation on the Eye | SpringerLink

 

Wireless Baby Monitors - A Great Invention?

Wireless Baby Monitor Radiation - Measuring RF Radiation from Wireless Baby Monitor

From the video description:

"I have covered the name of the company who makes this wireless baby monitor. However, 'wireless' baby monitors, of various types, and from various companies will be similar in function. I have also chosen to not make any statements regarding the safety or lack of safety of this product. That will be for you to decide. I have simply provided the summary of clinical research done by the scientists who compiled the BioInitiative Report 2012. This information is available at: www.bioinitiative.org. You may watch this video and make your own decisions based upon what you are watching."

(Note:  Wireless radiation has proven biological effects.)

"The electromagnetically-hypersensitive children and adults are the canary in the coal mines..."

"...that basically say, we have a problem here, it's time to address it."

From the YouTube video description:

Dr. Maret, MD - UNSAFE Cell Phone and Wireless Standards for Children

Karl Maret, M.D., M.Eng. is President of Dove Health Alliance, a non-profit foundation in Aptos, CA. He holds an M.D., Masters in Biomedical Engineering and B.S. in Electrical Engineering. As such, he is uniquely qualified to address present day concerns about the biological effects of electromagnetic fields.

Dr. Maret has presented at many international conferences, including annual presentations at the German Society for Energy and Informational Medicine for the last 10 years, and he educates physician groups on the biological impacts of communication technologies, such as cell phones, wireless technologies and infrastructure and ‘smart meters’. In this presentation, Dr. Maret addresses risks to children in WiFi classrooms, presenting case studies involving real-time, continuous dossimetry measurements, including cumulative exposures and the percentage of each school day unacceptable exposure levels occurred.

This presentation was part of an Expert Forum on Cell Phone and Wireless Risks at the Commonwealth Club of CA on June 22, 2015. To view the full program, please go to: tinyurl.com/pazyhl5 Wireless microwave radiation is a Class 2B Possible Human Carcinogen in the same category as lead, DDT and chloroform.

Source: www.ElectromagneticHealth.Org

An Open Letter to Michigan House of Representatives: Before you vote on SB 637 & SB 894, the small cell wireless infrastructure bills...

Photo by Steve & Christine from USA - https://www.flickr.com/photos/24224567@N06/2699080007/Uploaded by xnatedawgx, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8137689

November 1, 2018

Dear Representative of the Great State of Michigan,

I hope this finds you well!

Today, November 1, 2018, the government admitted that wireless radiation can cause cancer and DNA-breaks:

• National Institute of Environmental Health Science:  National Toxicology Program releases final reports on rat and mouse studies of radio frequency radiation like that used in 2G and 3G cell phone technologies
• Wall Street Journal:  Scientists Find ‘Clear Evidence’ Cellphone Radiation Can Cause Cancer in Rats
• Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.:  NTP Cell Phone Radiation Study: Final Reports
• Microwave News:  Cell Phone Radiation Leads to Cancer, Says U.S. NTP in Final Report | Rats Developed Rare Heart Tumor | Cancer Link Was Once Thought Impossible  
• US Brain Tumor Association:  $25 Million NIH Study Proves Wireless Technology Causes Cancer and DNA Damage | Scientific Evidence Enough for Class 1 Human Carcinogen-Scientists Demand 5G Moratorium

Unless you are in opposition to SB 637, the small wireless communications 36-page bill with a 17-page summary, and its companion bill SB 894 (another 7 pages), before you vote, please listen to some of the expert testimonies given in opposition to these bills.

"Wireless radiation has biological effects. Period. This is no longer a subject for debate when you look at PubMed and the peer-review literature. These effects are seen in all life forms; plants, animals, insects, microbes. In humans we have clear evidence of cancer now; there is no question. We have evidence of DNA damage, cardiomyopathy, which is the precursor of congestive heart failure, neuropsychiatric effects... 5G is an untested application of a technology that we know is harmful; we know it from the science. In academics this is called human subjects research." ~ excerpts from Dr. Sharon Goldberg's October 4, 2018 testimony to the House Energy Policy Committee in opposition ti SB 637 and SB 894. Dr. Goldberg is an internal medicine physician with 21 years experience. Dr. Goldberg's entire 14 minute testimony is HERE.

The FCC and telecommunications companies refer to the FCC safety standards as protective of public health, but they aren't.  The FCC's safety standards were not developed for chronic exposure to wireless radiation, the type of exposure common today, and the type of exposure that will increase exponentially with a small cell tower / DAS tower infrastructure that SB 637 and SB 894 facilitate.  We need to be reducing our exposure to radiofrequency radiation, as Dr. Goldberg mentions, not increasing it.

"This is about radiation... The FCC is staffed by former members of the telecommunications industry.  They're effectively indemnified against adverse health impact lawsuits whenthe acceptable limits are higher than the limits actually shown to cause harmful health effects." ~ excerpt from Senator Patrick Colbeck's May 29, 2018 testimony to the House Energy Policy Committee in opposition to SB 637 and SB 894.  Senator Colbeck's entire 11 minute testimony is HERE.

Respecting our need to close the digital divide in Michigan, please consider that hard-wired (coaxial cable, telephone cable, and fiber optics) is faster, safer, more secure, more reliable, and less expensive in the long-run, than wireless technology.  Plus, hard-wired does not expose us to exponentially greater levels of radiofrequency radiation now proven to cause cancer and DNA-breaks.

As shown in the brief you have received, Policy Guidance Regarding Wireless Radiation, the bottom graph on page 8 shows how the United States, Canada, and Australia have radiofrequency radiation exposure limits 100 times higher than the majority of the rest of the world, and 10 times higher than India and Israel.

Since insurance companies in the United States consistently exclude liability coverage for electromagnetic fields (which includes the radiofrequency radiation from transmitting utility meters, "smart" meters, cell phones, cell towers, small cells, DAS towers, and all other wireless devices and equipment), I request that you introduce an amendment to SB 637 that would place liability for adverse health effects on the telecommunications companies.  If they are so sure the FCC's safety limits are protective, they would have no reason to oppose such an amendment.  

As Senator Colbeck mentioned in his May 29, 2018 testimony, SB 637 usurps your authority of Article 4, Section 51, to protect the health and safety of the citizens of Michigan.  

Some representatives may believe that because of the FCC declaratory ruling their hands are tied regarding SB 637 and SB 894.  What they may not realize is that the FCC's order represents an unprecedented federal intrusion on local control and authority, and that cities and municipalities are already filing lawsuits against the FCC.  

"I think the FCC has wildly overstepped it's limitations." ~ Michigan municipal Attorney Mike Watza  

• Washington Post:  More than a dozen cities are challenging the FCC over how to deploy 5G cell sites
• Bloomberg Law: States, Cities Feud Over Wireless Network Small Cells
• American City & Town: Cities announce opposition, intent to sue FCC over new 5G rules
• ARS Technica: Cities will sue FCC to stop $2 billion giveaway to wireless carriers
• GT Government Technology: Portland, Ore., Prepares for a Fight with the FCC Over 5G Ruling
• Telecoms: US cities issue lawsuit threats against the FCC over 5G rules

Recognizing that my rights and the rights of every citizen of this great state are usurped by SB 637, SB 894, and the FCC declaratory ruling, you now have an opportunity to help preserve our rights and your oath of office by voting "no" on these two bills.  

From the movie Philadelphia, Andrew Beckett, who was an attorney, said, "It's that every now and again - not often, but occasionally - you get to be a part of justice being done.  That really is quite a thrill when that happens."   

You now have that opportunity to be part of justice being done by opposing SB 637 and SB 894, bills that facilitate the installations of cancer-causing, DNA-breaking wireless towers and antenna outside our children's windows.  Please choose justice for the people of Michigan.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

Jeanine Deal

Montgomery County Rocks It - Opposition to 5G Small Cell Towers

Montgomery County, Maryland, Rocks It in Their Opposition to 5G Small Cell Towers

Bravo to the citizens that testified!  

The evidence of the safety of densification of wireless infrastructure does NOT exist.  Period.

Some of the citizens wore tags that read "Work With Us."

Please work with us, the citizens, the people who live here, who have legitimate concerns about the safety of small cell towers located or being installed only feet away from our homes.  Please work with us...

5G Wireless Technology: Millimeter Wave Health Effects

Monday, August 7, 2017

5G Wireless Technology: Millimeter Wave Health Effects

by Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Family and Community Health
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley

The emergence of 5G, fifth-generation telecommunications networks, has been in the news lately because the wireless industry has been pushing controversial legislation at the state level to expedite the deployment of this technology. The legislation would block the rights of local governments and their citizens to control the installation of cellular antennas in the public “right-of-way.” Cell antennas may be installed on public utility poles every 10-20 houses in urban areas. According to the industry, as many as 50,000 new cell sites will be required in California alone. 

Although many major cities and newspapers have opposed this legislation, the potential health risks from the proliferation of new cellular antenna sites have been ignored. These cell antennas will expose the population to new sources of radio frequency radiation including MMWs.

5G will employ low- (0.6 GHz - 3.7 GHz), mid- (3.7 – 24 GHz), and high-band frequencies (24 GHz and higher). In the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has allocated “low-band” spectrum at 0.6 GHz (e.g., 600 MHz), “mid-band” spectrum in the 3.5 GHz range, and 11 GHz of “high-band” frequencies including licensed spectrum from 27.5-28.35 GHz and 37-40 GHz, as well as unlicensed spectrum from 64-71 GHz which is open to all wireless equipment manufacturers.

Prior to widespread deployment, major cell phone carriers are experimenting with new technologies that employ “high-band” frequencies in communities across the country. The “high-band” frequencies largely consist of millimeter waves (MMWs), a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths of one to ten millimeters and frequencies ranging from 30 to 300 GHz (or billions of cycles per second). 

The characteristics of MMWs are different than the “low-band” (i.e., microwave) frequencies which are currently in use by the cellular and wireless industries. MMWs can transmit large amounts of data over short distances. The transmissions can be directed into narrow beams that travel by line-of-sight and can move data at high rates (e.g., up to 10 billion bits per second) with short lags (or latencies) between transmissions. The signals are blocked by buildings, and foliage can absorb much of their energy. Also, the waves can be reflected by metallic surfaces. Although antennas can be as small as a few millimeters, “small cell” antenna arrays may consist of dozens or even hundreds of antenna elements.

What does research tell us about the biologic and health effects of millimeter waves?

Millimeter waves (MMWs) are mostly absorbed within 1 to 2 millimeters of human skin and in the surface layers of the cornea. Thus, the skin or near-surface zones of tissues are the primary targets of the radiation. Since skin contains capillaries and nerve endings, MMW bio-effects may be transmitted through molecular mechanisms by the skin or through the nervous system. 

Continue reading HERE.