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The Swedish Environmental Court of Appeals has ruled that the operation of third generation mobile phone antennas constitutes and environmentally dangerous activity. The classification as “environmentally dangerous” did not require that the radiation was proven to cause environmental damage, but rather recognised that it was considered to be a risk to the environment. In making this assessment, the court referred to studies that show evidence of potentially dangerous biological
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A committee of the Irish Parliament has recommended tougher procedures to reduce health impacts from communications technology. On 30 June the joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources released its report on Non-ionising Microwave Radiation Emissions from Communications Masts. Among its 11 recommendations were that: all mobile phones sold should carry labels providing information about radiation levels;
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Following a review of the scientific literature, German scientists have recommended precautions for the use of mobile phones. A comprehensive research review by 25 German scientists has found evidence of risk from mobile phone radiation. On the basis of their findings, scientists recommended a precautionary approach to the use of mobile phones. “Keep mobile phone calls short, don’t call in a moving car without external antenna, don’t make mobile phone calls at a long distance
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Computer use may be a risk factor for glaucoma, according to recent research from Japan. Dr Masayuki Tatemichi from Tokyo's Toho University studied the connection between computer use and visual problems on a group of more than 10,000 Japanese workers. The study found that there was a relationship between computer use and refractive errors (near and farsightedness).
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Firemen are calling for a study into the risks of radiation from mobile phone antennas located on fire stations. On October 4 the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) announced that it has passed a resolution at its August 17 Convention in Boston, US. The resolution states, “Whereas many fire-fighters who are living with cell towers on or adjacent to their stations are paying a substantial price in terms of physical and mental health.
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Electrical sensitivity was the topic of a day-long symposium organised by Coghill Research Laboratories and held at the Royal Society of Medicine, London on 11 September. What is Electrical Sensitivity? Electrical sensitivity, or electrical hypersensitivity as it is sometimes called, is an allergic-type reaction to electromagnetic radiation from different sources. By the most conservative estimates, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide suffer from it.
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Veteran EMR researcher Dr Ross Adey has died at the age of 82. Adey, who originally haled from Australia, spent most of his working life conducting research into the effects of EMR in the US. He is particularly renowned for his work on calcium ion efflux and on cancer promotion. In the latter part of his career, Adey courageously advocated lower exposure standards.
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Magnetic fields from the electrical network can not only damage the DNA of brain cells, but the effects can be cumulative. These are some of the findings of recent studies by US researchers Drs Henry Lai and Narendra Singh. The Lai and Singh team first showed that magnetic fields from electricity could have genetic effects in 1997 when they found that a 60 Hz field of 0.1 - 0.5 mT produced single-strand and double-strand breaks in the DNA of rats’ brain cells.
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In early October a new Dutch study was released, creating a media furore when it reported adverse effects from third generation mobile phone antennas. The study, conducted by the Dutch Technical Research Institute (TNO), is the first to find an impact from 3G technology. Led by Professor Dr A Zwamborn, the study aimed to determine whether electromagnetic radiation from communications antennas affected cognitive function and subjective assessments of personal wellbeing.
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Also on 12 August, the Democrats called on the Senate to empower the ACA to “reject mobile phone towers being build near community sensitive sites such as hospitals, schools and residential areas.” Senator John Cherry, the party’s Communications spokesperson, referred to the ongoing legal action at Oatley. “It should not take three court cases and a loophole in the Telecommunications Act for a local authority to be able to defend the right of a community, to prevent a mobile phone tower
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Dr Neil Cherry, Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Lincoln University New Zealand, recently produced a new paper that reviews the effects of exposures from the electrical system. Entitled, “The Causal relationship between residential electromagnetic field exposures and Childhood Cancer”, it argues that “The causal relationship is robustly well-established.” In his paper Dr Cherry described EMR from electrical sources as a “new leukemia disease agent”.
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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,
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