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  • What a lawyer says about 5G

      What a lawyer says about 5G A prominent German lawyer asks whether new 5G technology should be rolled out, given that scientific research indica...
    Posted in 4G, 5G, environment, law, policy, precaution, protection, sperm

  • Aussie mum wins WiFi battle with school

    An Australian mother has succeeded in preventing the installation of WiFi in the school attended by her child, who had developed reactions to EMR, especially WiFi and Bluetooth. When her child’s school considered the installation of WiFi, she submitted a comment to the Department of Education’s website reporting her child’s sensitivity, requesting assistance to find a high school without WiFi exposure and raising issues of disability and discrimination.
    Posted in EHS, policy, school, WiFi

  • Canadian recommendations regarding exposure to electromagnetic fields

    During early 2015, the Canadian Government conducted a series of meetings in which witnesses provided testimony about the country’s health standard (Safety Code 6) and exposure to electromagnetic fields. These meetings were conducted by a Panel of the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Health, which published its report in June. The report concluded that ‘Safety Code 6 provided adequate protection from established adverse health effects’.
    Posted in EMF, Health Canada, policy, wireless radiation

  • Benevento Resolution

    A meeting of international scientists has endorsed a statement recognising risks from EMR and endorsing a precautionary approach. Exposure to electromagnetic fields can increase cancer risks in children and health problems in adults, and mobile phone raidaiton may contribute to brain tumours. These are among the effects identified by a group of international scientists in a statement known as the Benevento Resolution.
    Posted in Benevento Resoltuion, brain tumours, cancer, design, EMF, policy, precaution, radiation standards

  • Telecommunications code

    The provisioins of the ACIF Code for the Deployment of Radiocommunications Infrastructure will shortly come into effect. More than three years after the project was begun, the Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) Code for the Deployment of Radiocommunications Infrastructure is about to be implemented. Commenced in December 1999, completed in March 2002, registered by the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) on 10 October last year,
    Posted in ACIF, phone towers, policy, precaution, telecommunications code

  • ACIF Code

    The first Australian telecommunications code of practices has been finalised. Commenced in December 1999, released for public comment in August 2000, revised and re-exhibited for public comment in August 2000, the Australian Communications Industry Forum’s (ACIF’s) Code for the Deployment of Radiocommunications Infrastructure has at last been finalised. In March this year, after 30 months of intense debate, the Committee endorsed the final version of the Code. 
    Posted in ACIF Code, phone towers, policy

  • Sydney Council phone tower forum

    Representatives fromlcoal government areas throughout Sydney gathered to consider the implications of new state and federal rgulations and new telecommunicatins technologies. A federal Code of Practice and a new federal standard for radiofrequency exposure are about to be released and a state environmental planning policy (SEPP) has been in the process of development by the NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP) for eighteen months.
    Posted in local council, phone towers, policy