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Spanish researcher Dr Marina Pollan has investigated the interaction of magnetic fields from the power system and carcinogenic chemicals on the incidence of two types of brain cancer—gliomas and meningiomas. Her subjects were 1.5 million Swedish men who had worked between 1970 and 1989. She found that: exposure to magnetic fields but not chemicals did not increase glioma risk; exposure to magnetic fields above 2 mG plus solvents increased glioma risk by 50%;
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Dr David Suzuki, media personality, environmental campaigner, eco guru and perhaps prophet has recently visited Australia to promote his latest book, “Good News”. While in Sydney he addressed a conference of the Australian Institute of Environmental Health on Thursday 31 October. This dynamic 64-year old grandfather is a passionate and inspiring speaker. For more than an hour he delivered a message of urgency, a message of inspiration and a message of hope.
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Dr Paul Villeneuve has found a link between exposure to magnetic fields at work and brain tumours. The Canadian researcher conducted a study of 543 men with brain tumours and the same number of controls. He found that: Men who were exposed to an average of 6 mG or more had a 33% increased risk of brain tumours; Men working in higher fields had 12 times the chance of developing aggressive brain tumours, including grade III and grade IV astrocytomas (or glioblastoma multiforme).
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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.
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Exactly six years ago, in March 1996, the fledgling EMR Alliance, then convened by Betty Venables, produced its first six page newsletter with a national circulation of just 40 subscribers. This was the formalisation of a long process of providing information to the public and the unremarkable genesis of a new national organisation. On 21 August 1996, after the retirement of Mrs Venables, we were elected as joint administrators of the organisation, John Lincoln as Convenor and Lyn McLean
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How does the community find out about the levels of radiation from a mobile phone antennas? Is it possible to have a printout of radiation footprints of an area? What will be the radiation exposures at various distances from an antenna? What will they be at various heights from the ground? On Tuesday 16 November Telstra presented EMRAA with a copy of a software program it has developed that will allow councils and communities to quickly and easily answer many of these questions.
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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.
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Mobile phone manufacturers have begun providing information about the Specific Absorption Rate (SARs) of their products. How much radiation from mobile phones is absorbed by the user’s head? Are some models of mobile phones safer than others? What information is available to help consumers make an informed choice when purchasing a new phone? The public’s plea for information about comparative radiation levels from mobile phones has not entirely fallen on deaf ears.
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Doubts emerge about the new ARPANSA RF standard. In mid October the RF Working Group completed the latest Radiation Protection Standard. No vote was taken on the document before it was forwarded to the next rung of the bureaucratic ladder. If approved and adopted, the document will allow Australians to be exposed to more radiation—in some cases four times more—than at present.
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Dr Alan Frey has argued convincingly that mobile phones are responsible for causing headaches. Since the 1960s it has been known that people exposed to very low intensity microwaves hear sounds such as buzzes, clicks or tones. Known as “microwave hearing”, this phenomenon is thought to take place in the cochlea. People thus affected, who were the subjects of Frey’s experiments on microwave hearing in the 1960s, often reported headaches.
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Two interntional bodies have concluded that electromagnetic radiation does not pose a risk to health - but are they right? In the United States, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) has developed a proposal which aims to relax their standard and allow people to be exposed to significantly higher levels of radiation. The IEEE standard, one of the major international standards for RF exposure, already allows higher exposures than do the rival guidelines
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As the flaming orange sun sank behind the distant hills, it cast its dying rays across the clouds, painting them glorious shades of peach and purple in a final display of its brilliance. Against this dazzling sunset two figures sat on top of the rocky outcrop, still and silent, basking in the beauty of the evening. One of them, the old man, shivered in the first chill of evening and pulled his thick woollen blanket snugly about his shoulders.
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