Concern is building in Italy over possible loosening of its #RF exposure standard —one of the strictest in the world— by as much as 100x. In a letter to 🇮🇹 PM Mario Draghi, 29 associations asked that the government maintain its 6 V/m limit.
Press release👇 applelettrosmog.it/file/news/APPL…
More pressure on Draghi. Now from prominent #RF researchers who have long promoted #precaution and do not want 🇮🇹 to raise its 6 V/m limit.
D Gee, L Birnbaum, C Portier, L Hardell, M Havas, E Richter, J Moskowitz, D Davis, C Sage & F Belpoggi.
Letter 👇 vogliamolimiticautelativi.it/letter-to-ital…
The appeals to keep the 20-year-old 6 V/m limit appear to be having an impact. The 🇮🇹 govt is now saying that the standard will be reviewed rather than increased to 61 V/m, according to Fiorella Belpoggi of @CollegiumRamazz. But, she warns, "the door for a change is still open."
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"Overall, the NTP findings demonstrate the potential for RFR to cause cancer in humans."
--Linda Birnbaum, former director of @NIEHS and National Toxicology Program in an statement cited in the @saferphones suit v @FCC
Oral arguments are scheduled for next Monday, January 25. They will be streamed live.
One of the key Qs raised by the Court during oral arguments this morning was whether @US_FDA had consulted with its advisory committee, Technical Electronic Product Radiation Safety Standards Committee (TEPRSSC), when responding to @FCC with regard to its rules on #RF safety.
The first U.S. animal study of long-term microwave exposure was published in 1962. Like many others that would follow, it pointed to a cancer risk -–and it too was never repeated. ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum…
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The experiment was by Susan Prausnitz and Prof Charles Susskind @UCBerkeley. Prausnitz later gave up lab work to raise a family. She died on May 20. Susskind died in 2004. In 1976, he joined ERMAC, an influential NIER advisory committee, based at the White House.
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299 male mice were exposed to pulsed 9.27 GHz radar radiation, 4.5 min/day for 59 weeks. It was a crude experiment by today’s standards. Their body temperature was raised by an average 3.3°C. Yet, the mice had an increase incidence of “neoplasms of the white [blood] cells.” 3/4