Obama administration warned of hazards of wireless technologies: Ontario study

A report on the hazards of wireless technologies co-authored by Trent University associate professor Magda Havas was mailed last week by The National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy (NISLAPP) in Washington, D.C. to President Barack Obama and his administration, the U.S. Congress, state governors, and thousands of health and environmental journalists. NISLAPP is urging legislators and journalists to learn about the health consequences of microwave radiation exposure from cell phones, neighbourhood antennas, wireless networks, wireless routers, DECT portable phones, and the potential health consequences of further chronic exposures from wireless broadband and new wireless utility technologies. Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution, co-authored by Havas and Camilla Rees, founder of www.ElectromagneticHealth.org, reviews the independent science on the health hazards of microwave radiation and offers recommendations to the public on how to live more safely in a wireless world. “Congress must take steps now to educate the public on how to protect health, halt nationwide wireless broadband until legislators are better educated on the potential short and long-term health effects, and encourage innovative solutions to this difficult set of circumstances, where technologies have been introduced without adequate pre-market health testing or post-market surveillance,” said NISLAPP chair, James Turner. Havas teaches and does research on the biological effects of environmental contaminants, including radiofrequency radiation, electromagnetic fields, dirty electricity and ground current. She has served as expert witness on matters dealing with electrical pollution in both Canada and the United States, and has been advisor to non-profits, including Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution in Canada, Council on Wireless Technology Impacts and EMR Policy Institute in the U.S., HESE in the U.K. and National Platform Stralingscrisco’s in the Netherlands.

Obama administration warned of hazards of wireless technologies: Ontario study

Briefs | 07/06/2009 6:47 pm EDT

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