Letter: Safety standard for wireless technology needs an update

Letter: Safety standard for wireless technology needs an update

 

 

THE GAZETTE JULY 16, 2013

Re: “Safety key issue for cellphone tower opponents” (Extra, July 13)

Thank you very much for publishing an article on Safety Code 6 and the dangers of wireless technology.

It shows the quandary that we are in currently: the pressure for increased usage of wireless technology on one side and medical and scientific findings resulting in calls for restrictive wireless use on the other.

Unfortunately, Health Canada’s Safety Code 6 is behind the times.

Nowhere in the Safety Code 6 are there safety standards protecting women (especially pregnant women), children/youth and the electrosensitive. Do women and children not use cellphones or live near cellphone towers? Do women and children not work or live in pervasive Wi-Fi settings like schools and workplaces? Do they not use laptops? Of course they do, yet Health Canada refuses to acknowledge them in Safety Code 6.

It is also a pity that Safety Code 6 does not acknowledge the long-term health effects from low-level microwave radiation. It acknowledges only the short-term acute heating effects.

Paulette Rende

Mississauga, Ont.

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