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WiFi causes heart problems, headaches and other neurological disorders in children.
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WiFi causes heart problems, headaches and other neurological disorders in children.
Canadian Documentary exposes the truth
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This document serves to inform schools,
Governing Bodies, Academy Trusts, School Boards, Education Authorities,
teachers and parents of the professional, medical and scientific concerns
about children using wireless technologies in schools. The information can be
used to implement safe school policies, practices and guidance in order to
safeguard the health and development of children and young people and to aid
cognitive abilities, learning and achievement.
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Recommendations of the Russian National
Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection of the necessity to regulate
strictly the use of Wi-Fi in kindergartens and schools. Mobile cellular
communication is getting more popular among children of different ages.
Children excel adult population in the mobile phone calls use. At the same
time, there is a daily brain exposure of EMF RF. In addition, all children
are constantly exposed of EMF RF from base stations. The problem of the
children’s health maintenance in the development of wireless communications
was set up as priority by World Health Organization. Electromagnetic
radiation from Wi-Fi creates an additional burden for the child brain, whose
body is in a state of development and the formation of mental activity.
During this period, children are most susceptible to adverse environmental
factors (WHO, publication number 3, April 2003). It is necessary to note that
the existing standards have been developed, without consideration of this
additional exposure of EMF.
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The presentation gives an clarifying overview of
the current system of risk-protection for EMFs in Europe and wider regions in
the world. The historically-established system is based on an obsolete
‘Exact-Physics’ paradigm of technology institutions, plus a corresponding
science interpretation. Such a paradigm is fundamentally inadequate for the
complex dynamic domain of ‘Living organisms’. The established system thus
produces misguiding EMF-risk information for worldwide health-protection
policies, -regulations, - research and -communications. According to the
‘Complex Biology’ science interpretation of a growing life-science community,
heterogeneous EMFs form a highly plausible work- and lifestyle factor of
chronic multisystem diseases that increasingly occur worldwide. This threat
of structural and serious damage requires an immediate precautionary
approach. Implementing the existing guidelines of the Seletun-scientists
Resolution is highly necessary to avoid further increase of public costs.
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2012 March The Biological Effects of Weak Electromagnetic
Fields, Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy
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The Harmful Effects of Electromagnetic
Radiation. Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy has written an article about the harmful
effects of electro magnetic radiation. It explains in some detail, but in
lay-persons terms, the mechanisms underlying the various harmful effects of
electromagnetic radiation from power lines and mobile telecommunication
devices. The Industry can no longer claim that there is no known mechanism by
which low level radiation can cause biological damage. It also goes on to say
how the Industry, apparently deliberately, ignored warnings about the dangers
involved in the specific pulse frequencies that they subsequently used in
digital telecommunications.
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The Austrian Medical Association has developed a
guideline for differential diagnosis and potential treatment of nonspecific
stress-related health problems associated with electrosmog. Its core element
is a patient questionnaire consisting of a general assessment of stress
symptoms and a specific assessment of electrosmog exposure. The guideline is
intended as an aid in diagnosing and creating EMF-related health problems.
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The International EMF Alliance gave comments on
a number of questions for risk assessment the European Commission had prepared for its scientific
committee SCENIHR, in order to update its opinion of 2009 on the overall
risks of EMFs. As was explicitly mentioned, comments were only to be provided
on the relevance and the completeness of the posed questions for risk
assessment.
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In its unsigned commentary on September 3, 2011,
“Worrying about Wireless”, The Economist makes a number of technical errors
and misleading statements about microwave radiation that we write to correct.
The governments of more than a dozen nations have issued precautionary advice
and policies about wireless devices, including restricting cellphone use by
children in France, India and Israel (See Worldwide Advisories at
www.saferphonezone.com). The Economist would do well to consult with experts
in these and other tech-savvy nations to learn the science behind these
countries’ decisions so that it can provide accurate reporting on wireless
safety and health matters.
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We are writing to express our concerns over the
narrow range of speakers and agenda items for the November 16- EU Commission
conference on EMF, and over the lack of transparency and pluralism in the
evaluation of evidence by SCENIHR and other EU risk assessment committees.
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The WHO/International Agency for Research on
Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly
carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a
malignant type of brain cancer1, associated with wireless phone use. Lyon,
France, May 31, 2011
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Conflict of interest at the WHO,Professor Ahlbom,
who is appointed to chair the expert group on epidemiology at the upcoming
IARC evaluation of the carcinogenicity of mobile phone radiation, is the
cofounder of “Gunnar Ahlbom AB” a Brussels-based lobby firm aiming to assist
the telecom industry on EU regulations, public affairs and corporate
communications.
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In collaboration with the International EMF
Alliance (IEMFA), scientists from Europe, North America, Australia and Israel
have sent an Open Letter to Dr. Christopher Wild, Director of the
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), calling for a
postponement of the forthcoming meeting May 24-31, 2011 in Lyon, France,
“Non-Ionizing Radiation, Part II: Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field
[includes mobile telephones],” at which determination of the carcinogenicity
of cell phones and wireless technologies will be made.
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IEMFA aims to disseminate coherent information
and advice to national and international health authorities and policy-makers
on the rapidly growing evidence of actual and potential effects on health and
wellbeing by non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF). IEMFA also addresses
other stakeholders and individuals with an interest in the subject. IEMFA
urges governments, health authorities and citizens to take precautionary
measures, and proposes a new set of standards. The new guidelines for human
exposure to EMF as presented in THE SELETUN RESOLUTION were published in
Review of Environmental Health by a consortium of independent international
scientists. March 2011
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2011
March Electromagnetic Fields from Mobile Phones: Health Effect on Children
and Teenagers, RNCNIRP Professor Yury GRIGORIEV, Professor Valentina
NIKITINA, Dr Oleg GRIGORIEV
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This Resolution was approved by members of the
Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (RNCNIRP) at
its Committee session on 3 March 2011. The Resolution evolved from scientific
statements adopted by RNCNIRP in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009, taking into
account contemporary views and actual scientific data. The Resolution
represents a viewpoint of the professional scientific community and is meant
for public dissemination, for the consumers of the mobile telecommunications
services, as well as for the legislative and executive authorities who
develop and implement health protection, environmental, communication,
scientific and safety policies.
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC), was established in 1965 as an agency of the World Health Organization
(WHO) with a mission to develop strategies for cancer prevention and control.
One of its prime roles is to evaluate and classify the carcinogenicity of
chemicals and other substances (including electromagnetic radiation) through
published monographs that will then be used by international and national
health and regulatory agencies to protect public health. In order to block
undue commercial influence in its assessment process the IARC has stipulated
that in order to participate in its working groups, members must have no real
or apparent conflicts of interests – meaning that they cannot be working for
the affected industry. This does not eliminate the potential for commercial
influence, however, as industry representatives, with an obvious bias to
protect their commercial sector, can still be directly involved in IARC
meetings. This is exampled by the May 24-31, 2011 IARC meeting that will be
discussing the carcinogenicity of radio-frequency and microwave radiation.
Other examples of the problems created by allowing industry involvement in
WHO advisory groups, namely the Chernobyl Forum and the Electromagnetic Field
(EMF) Task Group (2005) are examined with a warning on forgetting the hard
lessons learned by the WHO from its past experience with the tobacco
industry.
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2011
WORLD HEALTH Urgently Needs Lower EMF Standards, International Scientists Say Olle
Johansson, PhD, Karolinska Institute, Chair, Adamantia Fragopoulou, Yuri
Grigoriev, Lukas Margaritas, Lloyd Morgan, Elihu Richter, and Cindy Sage,
2011
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The International Electromagnetic Fields
Alliance (IEMFA) today announces a new published report and scientific
Consensus Statement concerning health hazards of electromagnetic fields
(EMFs). Led by Olle Johansson, PhD of the Karolinska Institute, the report
published by a consortium of international scientists urges global
governments to adopt significantly lower human exposure standards for
electromagnetic fields. The recommendations are based on the latest body of
evidence in biological sciences, and the public-health implications of the
unprecedented global exposures to electromagnetic fields from
telecommunications and electric power technologies. The scientists recommend
specific exposure limits for different frequency fields, including
microwaves, used in wireless communications, and ELF electric fields and
magnetic fields 2011
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In 2007-2008, The Association for
Electrohypersensitive in Norway conducted a questionnaire among its members.
The aim was to document the sources that the EHS react to, their symptoms,
treatments/interactions that help, and how the handicap affects their daily
life. The results were recently published in a report.http://epapir.info/felo/Rapport_V12_211210/index.html
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The comments submitted by Swedish
neuroscientist, Dr. Olle Johansson on the Smart Meter Report prepared by the
California Council on Science and Technology in January 2011
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2010
Autoimmune Process after Long-Term Low-Level Exposure to Electromagnetic
Fields, Y.G. Grigoriev, O.A. Grigoriev, A.A.Ivanov, A.M.
Lyaginskaya, A.V. Merkulov, V.S. Stepanov, N.B. Shagina
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Mobile Communications and Changes in
Electromagnetic Conditions for the Population. Abstract—Mobile communications
provides a new source of electromagnetic exposure for almost the whole
population of Russia. For the first time in the history of civilization, the
brain of mobile phone users is exposed to localized radiofrequency (RF)
electromagnetic fields (EMF). Base stations are a factor in the exposure of
the population. Existing standards for limiting exposure do not account for
the role of base sta-tions as a source of EMF and cannot guarantee the
absence of adverse health effects. It has become necessary to obtain reliable
information to expand databases for the development of new standards. As
recommended by the World Health Organization, an additional experiment is
performed under the supervision of foreign experts, which shows changes in
autoimmune status in rats after long-term low-level RF EMF exposure with an
incident power of 500 µW/cm2.
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Protection against Non Ionizing Radiation is
based on a paradigmatic assumption: “We know very well the interaction
between electromagnetic fields and living organ-isms: it is a thermal
interaction; thus the standards internationally accepted are adequate to
protect people and workers”. This is a fairy tale. Since the 1970s the non
thermal effects of electromagnetic fields on living organisms have been well
known and also the non thermal mechanisms have been investigated.
Nevertheless, until today, we have been condemned to listen to
representatives from international institutions repeating the old refrain
above. Furthermore when scientists participating in the ICEMS agreed to edit
a monograph – the present one - with the aim of illustrating the non thermal
mechanisms and effects due to the electromagnetic interaction with living organisms.
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Radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers
has been linked to DNA damage, cancer, immunological impairment, neurological
diseases, impaired fertility and impacts on neurological function, including
cognition, behavior, performance, mood status, and disruption of sleep.
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Ongoing developments in biological sciences
increase worldwide consensus amongst life scientists that the multitude of
cellular changes induced by non-ionizing electromagnetic fields may over
longer time accumulate into a range of serious health problems, due to
prolonged exposure at levels significantly below the current exposure
guidelines. These fast emerging long-term effects form a wide threat for
public health.
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Contribution of IEMFA to a consultation process
amongst social partners of the EC, to ensure protection of workers from
long-term health risks related to exposure to EMFs at work. Recommendations
for a new directive departing from EC second stage document (2010) 3250 final
of May 20th, 2010
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Setting Exposure Standards for
Telecommunications Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation, An examination of the
manipulation of telecommunications standards by political, military, and
industrial vested interests at the expense of public health protection, Don
Maisch, PhD thesis 2010
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“Low dose exposure to chemicals and
electromagnetic radiation from increasingly advanced electronic equipment is
apparently one of the work environment risks in offices in the twenty-first
century. How great the health risks are is not yet known. Researchers who
want to find out are kept back by constant lack of funding. In this
situation, the role of unions is important, partly with respect to demanding
more adequate research in this field, partly to assert at least the principle
of prudent avoidance – if they don’t dare to demand a zero-risk goal.” by Don
Maisch PhD and Prof. Olle Johansson 2010
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Exposure to man-made sources of EMFs has
increased dramatically due to the demand for electricity, wireless
technologies (especially for telecommunications), and changes in work
practices and social behaviour. As a result, all EU citizens are now exposed
to EMFs through sources such as high-voltage power lines, household
electrical appliances,computers, radar, radio and television broadcast
facilities and mobile telephones 2010
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Taken from PhD dissertation, The Procrustean
Approach: Setting Exposure Standards for
Telecommunications Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation Don Maisch 2010 |
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Interphone Study finds increased risk of glioma
and meningioma for regular mobile phone users 2010
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Urgent appeal of EUROPAEM to European
environment and health ministers and other authorities to financial invest in
the greatly concerning increase of chronic multisystem illnesses based on
similar pathological mechanisms. Common mechanisms are influenced by
environmental factors including electromagnetic field (EMF) triggers 2010
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With this discussion paper IEMFA aims to enhance
progressive stages of knowledge development on EMF&H. Progressive
stages in world-wide knowledge of the last decades bring a developing
conception of associated health problems. They form part of an ongoing
development towards a state of science which reflects reality
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Long-term exposure, but ... ... no knowledge, no
safety standards Citizens and ecosystems are nowadays increasingly exposed to
long-term growth in low- and high-frequency electromagnetic fields from an
ever wider range of electrical equipment, power lines and wireless
applications. The knowledge about possible health consequences of longterm
effects of such fields is not available, or available only in a very limited
way. This also applies to the cumulative effect of these influences. In line
with this, the current standards primarily focus on the prevention of acute
health effects occurring on exposure to individual fields. As a consequence,
in the current situation, human beings and the natural world are not
protected against possible long term health effects from a cocktail of
different electromagnetic fields 2009
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Worldwide, scientists, public health experts,
and many government agencies are making recommendations for children to avoid
using cell phones and generally for cell phone users to aim towards lower
radiation exposure (Leitgeb 2008; Mead 2008). Recommendations from government
agencies of several countries and international organizations are summarized
below. Science Review on Cancer Risks and Children's Health 2009
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The 11 Interphone study design flaws, taken
together, greatly distort the true risk of brain tumors from cellphone use.
Any consideration of Interphone study conclusions must weigh an understanding
of these design flaws so as not to mislead the public about risks of cell
phone use. It is the view of the editors and endorsers of this report that
there is a far greater risk of brain tumors from cellphone use than has been
reported in the Telecom-funded Danish cellphone subscriber study or in the
Telecom-funded Interphone study 2009
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Exposure to High-Frequency Electromagnetic
Fields, Biological Effects and Health Consequences
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UNI Wien die Professoren Mosgöller, Kundi und
Gerner erneut nicht-thermische Wirkungen
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2009
BEMS - BIOEM Davos abstracts the
programme
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Joint Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society
and the European BioElectromagnetics Association
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Workshop Ministério Público do RS, Rua A.
Figueiredo Pinto 80, P. Alegre, RS, Brazil. The workshop was under the
sponsorship of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the Pan American Health
Organization, the Universidade Fédéral do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, the
Public Ministry of Rio Grande do Sul, the International Commission for
Electromagnetic Safety, as well as other governmental and non governmental
organizations. International researchers from several countries will deliver
invited talks on selected subjects. Researchers, public health authorities,
as well as authorities from the legislative, executive and judiciary
governmental bodies from Brazil and other South American countries are also
invited.
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Animals use their cryptochrome pigments for both
magnetic and solar navigation. They also control the activity of the immune
system. Weak electromagnetic fields can affect all of these functions with
disastrous consequences. Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy May 2009
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Results: The results indicate that using a cell
phone for ≥10 years approximately doubles the risk of being diagnosed with a
brain tumor on the same (“ipsilateral”) side of the head as that preferred
for cell phone use. The data achieve statistical significance for glioma and
acoustic neuroma but notfor meningioma.
Conclusion: The authors conclude that there is adequate epidemiologic evidence to suggest a link between prolonged cell phone usage and the development of an ipsilateral brain tumor. Vini G. Khurana, PhD, Charles Teo, Michael Kundi, Lennart Hardell, Michael Carlberg, 2009 |
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Methodologic considerations revealed that three
important conditions for epidemiologic studies to detect an increased risk
are not met:
a) no evidence-based exposure metric is available; b) the observed duration of mobile phone use is generally still too low; c) no evidence-based selection of end points among the grossly different types of neoplasias is possible because of lack of etiologic hypotheses. Concerning risk estimates, selection bias, misclassification bias, and effects of the disease on mobile phone use could have reduced estimates, and recall bias may have led to spuriously increased risks. The overall evidence speaks in favor of an increased risk, but its magnitude cannot be assessed at present because of insufficient information on long-term use. Michael Kundi: Institute of Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2009 |
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Warns that cell phones are unsafe even for short
conversations. Children under 16, pregnant women, epileptics, and people with
memory loss, sleep disorders and neurological diseases should never use cell
phones.
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The results of a questionnaire that was
completed by 250 electro hyper sensitive (EHS) persons in the Netherlands
over a 3-year period, who contacted the EHS Foundation on Their Own
Initiative. Self declared health problems were recorded along with the sources
of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) –if known- that caused the health effects
Self-Declared health problems recorded alongwith were the sources of
electromagnetic fields (EMFs)-if known-That caused the health effects
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Prof. Franz Adlkofer, Prof. Igor Y. Belyaev, and
Vladislav M. Shiroff
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4-fold increase in risk of leukaemia if they
also live within 100 metres of powerlines
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Preoccupations concerning the effects on human
health of electromagnetic fields
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An independent organization of biological and
physical scientists, physicians and engineers
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Effects EMF May 2008
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Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy May 2008
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Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy Marz 2008
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Michael Bevington 2008
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Dr. Vini G. Khurana, MBBS, BSc 2008
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The BioInitiative Report is an internationally
acclaimed scientific and public health report on potential health risks of
electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency/microwave radiation.
In 2007, the BioInitiative Working Group, an
international collaboration of prestigious scientists and public health
experts from Columbia University and the University at Albany (New York),
University of Washington (Seattle), the Karolinska Institute, Umea University
and Orebro University Hospital (Sweden), the European Environmental Agency
(Denmark) Medical University of Vienna (Austria) and Zhejiang University
School of Medicine, (China) released a 650-page report citing more than 2000
studies that document health effects of EMFs from all sources.
The BioInitiative Report was produced for
publication to the broadest possible audience, hence placed on the Web. Much
of the BioInitiative Report content, including updated chapters and new
chapters is now published in the journal Pathophysiology (August 2009).
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Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy Augustus 2007
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Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy 2007
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Dr. Magda Havas 2007
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European Commission 2007
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World Health Organization 2004-2006
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ECOLOG-Instituut 2006
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World Health Organization 2005
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European Commission 2005
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Risk Evaluation of Potential Environmental
Hazards From Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure Using Sensitive in
vitro Methods. Total project cost 3.149.621 €
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European Commission 2002
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Stewart Report, Sir William Stewart Chairman
IEGMP 2000
http://international-emf-alliance.org/index.php/publications/news |
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