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Can the judiciary grasp the biophysychosocial model? In this address, presented to the 6th NZ Health Psychology Conference in February 1999, Dr Ivan Beale argues that courts have an obligation to consider the adverse psychosocial impacts of potential environmental risks - such as electromagnetic radiation. To date courts, governments and industry have considered only physical and medical impacts of EMR on individuals concerned about exposure to fields from phone towers or powerlines.
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In light of recent scientific evidence of risk, several eminent scientists have recommended precautions when using mobile phones including restrictions on their use by children. As governments and industries remind us, there is “no conclusive proof” that the radiation from mobile phones causes health problems and they dismiss any possibility of risk at athermal (non-heating) levels of radiation.
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While a new study from Europe indicates that analogue phones increase the risk of brain tumours, Australian researchers show how this effect may occur. Suggestions that mobile phones cause brain cancer have been touted now for nearly a decade. The issue was catapulted to public attention in 1993 when heavy mobile phone user, Suzie Reynard, died from a tumour she claimed was caused by her mobile phone and which was adjacent to the position of her phone antenna.
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Mobile phone manufacturers engaged in several legal actions in the US may face compelling new evidence that the radiation from mobile phones is a health risk—from their own patents. While the companies have been publicly proclaiming the safety of their products, they have been applying for patents for designs intended to reduce radiation exposure. These include: a Nokia shield between the antenna and the head (patented 28.07.98);
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The Federal Government has prepared an information package on the safety of mobile phone technology which it has distributed to all primary and secondary schools in Australia. A glossy brochure produced by the Australian Communications Authority promulgates the assumption that adverse health effects occur only if the body is significantly heated and contains advice that: “At relatively low levels of exposure to RF EMR…
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German parents have received official advice to limit their children’s use of mobile phones. Wolfram König, the head of the nation’s Federal Radiation Protection Office, recommends that children not use mobile phones. He has also recommended that mobile phone base stations not be erected near sensitive areas such as kindergartens, schools and hospitals.
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Two reviews have concluded that electromagnetic fields from the power system may present a risk to public health. For more than twenty years the question of whether electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from the power system contribute to health problems has been debated throughout the western world. For most of that time the fields of opinion have been polarised (if you’ll excuse the pun).
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In a study due to be released in November, Dr De-Kun Li from the US found an increased risk of miscarriage among women exposed to a maximum magnetic field of 16 mG or more. Dr Li monitored the pregnancies of 969 women in the early stages of pregnancy. Each wore an EMDEX meter for 24 hours to record the magnetic fields to which they were exposed.
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After a year of reviewing submissions and conducting public hearings, the Senate Inquiry on EMR is expected to hand down its report in early April. At the recent RF Spectrum Conference in Sydney, Chairman of the Inquiry, Senator Lyn Allison, described some of the highlights of the hearings and difficulties the committee had faced during the Inquiry.
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Britain’s National Radiation Protection Board has officially recognised the link between exposure to EMR from power sources and childhood leukemia. What did the report find? What has been the reaction - and what are the implications for Australians? Decades after establishing a connection between smoking and lung cancer, eminent UK epidemiologist, Sir Richard Doll, has found evidence that extremely low electromagnetic fields from the power system are associated with an increase in
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Tobacco, asbestos and lead - exposures to these toxic substances have devastated lives, changed social perceptions of what is acceptable, diminished corporate revenue, generated huge compensation claims and earned prosecuting lawyers healthy rewards. Will the same be true for mobile phones? An interesting synergy would suggest that this is the case.
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On December 4, Democrat Senator Lyn Allison called for the Federal Government to implement precautions to protect public health from the radiation emitted by mobile phones and mobile phone antennae. After drawing attention to a number of precautionary recommendations by the UK’s Stewart Report, she urged the Government to “follow the lead of the UK Government in:
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