Petition:- Protect your health from Electromagnetic Radiaton

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Protect your health from Electromagnetic Radiaton

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The petition

Protect Yourself from Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) hazards by

supporting the BioInitiative Report recommendations on EMR exposure limits.

The EMR Policy Institute is putting forward this petition to endorse the

recommendations of The BioInitiative Working Group Report. We are seeking

support from other organizations whose missions call for responsible public

health policy for children, for workers and for the general public both where

they work and where they reside. We are also seeking the endorsement of

individuals to call for tougher EMR safety policy globally as spelled out in

the report: BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based

Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF).

Following the Petition language is the statement of support for The

BioInitiative Report that was issued on September 17, 2007, by the European

Environmental Agency (EEA). It summarizes the importance of the BioInitiative

Report and the EMR safety actions it recommends.

Petition:

We, the undersigned, find that current government limits do not protect

the public from adverse health effects from electromagnetic radiation (EMR)

emanating from devices such as power lines, cell phones and wireless

internet devices and their associated antenna sites, TV and FM broadcast towers

and radar.

Most of the existing limits on this form of radiation are 1 to 4 thousand

times too lenient to prudently protect humans from adverse health effects

ranging from Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, reproduction

problems, sleep reduction, learning, memory, slowed ability of the body to

repair damage, interference with immune function, cancer and

electrohypersensitivity.

Based upon the scientific evidence set forth in The BioInitiative Report:

A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for

Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) and a large body of additional research, we

recommend that the following limits of electromagnetic radiation be set to not

exceed:

I. Extremely-low frequency (ELF). Power Lines, appliances, interior

electric wiring and other ELF-radiating devices:

A. Homes, schools and places where children spend large amounts of time:

1 milligauss *(1mG) for new construction; 1 milligauss (1mG) for all

existing occupied space retrofitted over time.

B. All other construction: 2 milligauss (2mG).

* A milligauss is a measure of ELF field strength used to describe

magnetic fields from appliances, power lines, interior electrical wiring,etc. A

milligauss, abbreviated, is mG. Just as the power density of high frequency

RF fields can be described in µW/cm2 or the corresponding electrical field

in V/m, the parameter most easily measured for ELF is the magnetic field.

II. Long-term (cumulative) Radiofrequency Radiation*(RF)

A. Outdoor Pulsed- such as cell phone antennas, radar, TV and FM broadcast

antennas, wireless internet antennas: one tenth of a microwatt per

centimeter squared or 0.614 volts per meter. * (0.1 µW/cm2 or 0.614 V/m)

* Radiofrequency radiation (RF) power density is measured in microwatts

per centimeter squared or volts per metmer and abbreviated (µW/cm2)or (V/m).

Radiofrequency Radiation is used when talking about emissions from

broadcast, radar and wireless facilities, and when describing ambient RF in the

environment. In the United States and Canada, for example, the amount of

allowable RF near a cell tower is one thousand microwatts per centimeter

squared (1000 µW/cm2) for some cell phone frequencies.

B. Indoor Radiofrequency Radiation (RF) such as cell phones, wireless

internet equipment and the radiation that permeates buildings from outdoor

sources. One hundredth of a microwatt per centimeter squared or 0.194 volts per

meter (0.01 µW/cm2 or 0.194 V/m). Typically, RF power density from higher

frequency outdoor sources such as UHF television or cell phone antenna base

stations drops by a factor of ten when it permeates buildings. Lower

frequency signals such as lower channel VHF TV and FM are not as severely

attenuated as the higher frequencies.

Future research may demonstrate that these recommended levels are not

protective enough; therefore, public policy makers should remain open to

lowering them as the scientific evidence accumulates.

Statement of support from the European Environmental Agency:

Radiation risk from everyday devices assessed, 17 Sep 2007 :

_www.eea.europa.eu/highlights_ (http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights)

A new report raising concerns about the effects of electromagnetic fields

(EMF) on human health calls for tougher safety standards to regulate

radiation from mobile phones, power lines and many other sources of exposure in

daily life. The " BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-Based

Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) was

compiled by the BioInitiative Working Group, an international group of

scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals. The EEA has

contributed to this new report with a chapter drawn from the EEA study, " Late

lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896-2000 "

The EEA study reviews the histories of a selection of public and

environmental hazards, such as asbestos, benzene and PCBs, from the first

scientifically based early warnings about potential harm, to subsequent

precautionary

and preventive measures. Cases on tobacco smoking and lead in petrol are

forthcoming.

Although the EEA does not have specific expertise in EMF, the case studies

of public hazards analyzed in the publication show that harmful exposures

can be widespread before there is evidence of harm from long-term

exposures, and biological understanding of how that harm is caused.

**There are many examples of the failure to use the precautionary

principle in the past, which have resulted in serious and often irreversible

damage

to health and environments. Appropriate, precautionary and proportionate

actions taken now to avoid plausible and potentially serious threats to

health from EMF are likely to be seen as prudent and wise from future

perspectives. We must remember that precaution is one of the principles of EU

environmental policy,** says Professor McGlade, Executive Director of

the EEA.

Current evidence, although limited, is strong enough to question the

scientific basis for the present EMR exposure limits, according to the

BioInitiative Working Group.

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