About EMF

“…childhood and adult leukemia, childhood and adult brain tumors, and increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In addition, there are reports of increased risk of breast cancer in both men and women, genotoxic effects (DNA damage…impaired repair of DNA damage in human stem cells), pathological leakage of the blood-brain barrier, altered immune function including increased allergic and inflammatory responses, miscarriage and some cardiovascular effects.

Insomnia (sleep disruption) is reported in studies of people living in very low-intensity RF environments with WI-FI and cell tower-level exposures. Short-term effects on cognition, memory and learning, behavior, reaction time, attention and concentration, and altered brainwave activity (altered EEG) are also reported in the scientific literature.” ²

Not all people notice effects from EMF. Symptoms and levels of severity can vary from person to person, even within the same household. As a result, some may feel no effect whatsoever, while others may feel “unwell” and not know why, and still others may be severely affected.

• 1996 The Telecommunications Act of 1996 becomes law on February 8, 1996.³ Among other things, under this law, “No State or local government or instrumentality thereof may regulate the placement, construction and modification of personal wireless service facilities on the basis of the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions to the extent that such facilities comply with the Commission’s regulations concerning such emissions.”⁴
• 1996 In compliance with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the FCC adopts RF/MW EMF limits, considered by advocacy groups, such as the EMR Policy Institute, to have serious flaws.⁵
• 2001 The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) finds that ELF EMF (power-frequency magnetic fields), are possible human carcinogens (Group 2B), “based on the consistent association between childhood leukemia and residential exposure.”⁶
• 2007 The Bioinitiative Report, produced in 2007 by an international group of scientists, researchers, and public health policy professionals in ten different countries states that “the existing standards for public safety were inadequate to protect public health, and agreed that new, biologically based safety limits were needed.”⁷
• 2011 The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) identifies radio frequency electromagnetic fields as “possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk of glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, associated with wireless phone use.”⁸
• 2012 The Bioinitiative 2012 updated report, which explores over 1800 new studies since 2007, finds “reinforced scientific evidence of risk from chronic exposure to low-intensity electromagnetic fields and to wireless technologies (radiofrequency including microwave radiation).”⁹