16 June 2014
Wireless and Children: Precautionary Action
Wireless and Children
Environmental Health Trust
Wireless
Health Risks: The IPAD
Children more Vulnerable to Wireless Radiation.
IPADS and wireless devices are microwave transmitters. Children’s nervous
systems and immune systems are developing at a rapid rate and can be profoundly
affected by environmental toxins. This radiation impacts brain maturation in
research studies. Parents can take steps to minimize exposures on their
children.
ake Action to Protect Your Child: Turn the Device on Airplane
Mode with WIFI Off.
Several Countries are taking Precautionary Action to
Minimize Microwave Exposures on Children
France: New
Legislation and French National Agency for Health, Food and Environmental
Safety (ANSES)
· 2013 The French National Assembly passed an amendment banning
WiFi from nursery Schools and strongly discouraging Wi-Fi in their schools
until its proven“safe for human consumption.”
· 2013 ANSES recommends
hands free kits for phones, radiation exposure labeling, and “limiting the
population’s exposure to radiofrequencies… especially for children and
intensive users, and controlling the overall exposure that results from relay
antennas.”
Belgium: Federal Public Health Regulations on March
2014 due to Health Concerns
· Phones designed for children under 7 years old
are prohibited from sale.
· Total Advertising Ban on cell phones aimed at
children younger than 14.
· Mandatory Radiation SAR levels must be available
for Consumers
Israel: The Israeli Ministry Of Education has issued
guidelines limiting WiFi and Cell phone use in schools.
· Pre-schools and
kindergartens have banned the use of wireless networks
· A hard wired direct
cable connection is recommended and according to recent reports schools are in
the process of converting their wireless infrastructure to cable connections.
· The Israeli
Supreme Court ordered the Israeli Government to investigate the
number of children currently suffering From EHS.
· In second and third grade classes
use of the internet is restricted to one hour per day.
· The Education Ministry has instructed all
schools to perform radiation tests.
· Israel’s Minister of Health Rabi Litzman
stated that he supports calls a ban on Wi-Fi in schools.
Australia: In
2013 the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency issued Fact Sheet 14: titled
How to Reduce exposure from mobile phones and other wireless devices.
· Reduce
the risk from WiFi devices by “keeping them at a distance, for example placing
the wireless router away from where people spend time”, and “reducing the
amount of time you use them”.
· “ARPANSA recommends that parents encourage
their children to limit their exposure.”
Finland: The Radiation
and Nuclear Safety Authority issued recommendations for
children which include: favoring text messages, parents limiting duration and
amount of calls,the use of hands free devices, avoiding calls in a low
reception area and keeping the phone away from the body.
· “With children, we
have reason to be especially careful, because there is not enough research on
children’s mobile phone use. Unfortunately, it will not be easy to obtain this
information in the future, either, because of ethical considerations, the use
of children as research subjects must always be heavily justified”, according
to STUK research director Sisko Salomaa.
Switzerland: The Governing
Council of Thurgau Canton 2008 “The Governing Council
recommends for schools to forgo the use of wireless networks when the
structural makeup of a given school building allows for a wired network.“
Germany: The German
Federal Ministry for Radiation Protection states,”supplementary
precautionary measures such as wired cable alternatives are to be preferred to
the WLAN system.”
· Bavaria:The
State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs: “For precautionary reasons
the Federal Office for Radiation Protection recommends for schools that if a
wireless network is used to place its components in suitable locations and to
prefer the use of wired network solutions whenever possible.” In 2007
Parliament recommendation to all schools to not install wireless LAN networks.
· Frankfurt: “In Frankfurt’s
schools there will be no wireless networks in the short or mid term. The Local
Education Authority did not wish to conduct a “large scale human experiment,”
said Michael Damian, spokesperson of the Head of the School Department Jutta
Ebeling.
Austria: ”The official advice of the Public
Health Department of the Salzburg Region is not to use WLAN and DECT
in Schools or Kindergartens.” -Gerd Oberfeld, MD.
· The Austrian Medical
Society has issues cell phone
safety guidelines stating that cell phones should be used for
as short of a time as possible and that children under 16 should not use cell
phones at all. The state that wireless LAN leads to high microwave exposure.
United
Kingdom: The UK National Health Service has specific Recommendations for
children and cell phones as “children are thought to be at higher risk of
health implications”.
· “Children should only use mobile phones for essential
purposes and keep all calls short. “
· For the public they have “recommendations
to help lower any potential long-term risks” which include keeping calls short,
keep phone away from the body on standby mode, only use it when the reception
is strong and use a phone with an external antenna.
India: 2012
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology issued EMF guidelines with
new Exposure Limits lowered to 1/10 of the ICNIRP level, SAR labeling on
phones.
· Official
guidelines for cell phone use include: Headsets, Speakerphones,
limiting cell use, increasing distance from devices, and choosing landlines.
·
2013: Supreme Court of
India upholds a decision of the High Court of the State of
Rajasthan to remove all cell towers from the vicinity of schools, colleges,
hospitals and playgrounds because of radiation “hazardous to life.”
· The
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has a webpage entitled
“ A Journey for EMF” detailing guidelines and current issues with wireless
devices and cell towers.
Italy: The Italian Supreme Court ruled
a man’s brain tumor was caused by his cell phone use in 2012. The National
Institute for Workmen’s Compensation must compensate a worker with head tumor
due to cell use.
Russia: The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection has
repeatedly warned about electromagnetic radiation impacts on children and
recommended WiFi not be used in schools.
· “Thus, for the first time in the
human history, children using mobile telecommunications along with the adult
population are included into the health risk group due to the RF EMF exposure.”
·
“In children, the amount of so-called stem cells is larger than in adults and
the stem cells were shown to be the most sensitive to RF EMF exposure.”
· “It
is reasonable to set limits on mobile telecommunications use by children and
adolescents, including ban on all types of advertisement of mobile
telecommunications for children.”
·
Decision of
Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection 2008,
“CHILDREN AND MOBILE PHONES: THE HEALTH OF THE FOLLOWING GENERATIONS IS IN
DANGER.”
Canada: Health Canada offers “Practical Advice”
on reducing exposure to wireless radiation.
· Recommendations:
1. Limit the
length of cell phone calls,
2. Replace cell phone calls with text, use
“hands-free” devices and
3. Encourage children under the age of 18 to limit
their cell phone usage
·
“Health Canada reminds cell phone users that they can
take practical measures to reduce RF exposure. The department encourages
parents to reduce their children’s RF exposure from cell phones since children
are typically more sensitive to a variety of environmental agents…There is a
lack of scientific information regarding the potential health impacts of cell
phones on children.”
European
Environment Agency: “All reasonable measures to be taken to
reduce exposures to electromagnetic fields, especially radiofrequencies from
mobile phones and particularly the exposures to children and young adults.
Current exposure limits to be reconsidered.”
The European
Environment Agency Report “Late Lessons from Early
Warnings, Volume II” 2013 Report details the accumulating science on radio
frequency radiation, the significant risks of waiting and critical need to take
precautionary action to reduce exposures to avoid widespread harm.
Resolution 1815: In
2011 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe issued The Potential
Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields and Their Effect on the Environment.
A call
to European governments to “take all reasonable measures” to reduce exposure to
electromagnetic fields “particularly the exposure to children and young people
who seem to be most at risk from head tumours.”
The Resolution calls for
member states to:
· Implement “information campaigns about the risk of
biological effects on the environment and human health, especially targeting
children and young people of reproductive age. “
·
“Reconsider the scientific
basis for the present standards on exposure to electromagnetic fields set by
the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection, which have
serious limitations, and apply ALARA principles, covering both thermal effects
and the athermic or biological effects of electromagnetic emissions or
radiation.”
“For children in general, and particularly in schools and
classrooms, give preference to wired Internet connections, and strictly
regulate the use of mobile phones by schoolchildren on school premises.”
These
countries are taking a precautionary stance.
More research is needed to
understand what the long term health consequences of daily low level microwave
radiation.
Our children are at risk and we need the facts:
Just how much
radiation does a child’s brain absorb?
Support groundbreaking
research to get the facts on radiation and children.
EHT is supporting
groundbreaking research to understand absorption in one, two and three year old
children.
What we know:
· Cell phones and wireless devices operate by
emitting microwave radiation
· Children are particularly vulnerable due to
thinner skulls and higher fluid in their brain.
· Comparably, children absorb
more radiation than adults
Wireless radiation impacts brain development
What
we need:
We need to purchase updated software for our computer assisted
evaluation of anatomically based models of young children to produce three
dimensional images of how far radiation gets into the young brain.
Please help us raise $20,000 to complete this critically important study being
conducted by EHT teams working in Brazil with some of that nation’s most
distinguished researchers.
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