By Joel Moskowitz, Sep 18, 2020

In a Washington Post op-ed (June 4), “5G conspiracy theories threaten the U.S. recovery,” Thomas Johnson Jr., the Federal Communications Commission’s general counsel, declared: “Conjectures about 5G’s effect on human health are long on panic and short on science.”

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According to Johnson, “if we delay 5G deployment based on irrational fears and unproven theories, it will only hurt the American people.” But can we trust the FDA or FCC’s evaluation of the science? Should we gamble on our health and invest hundreds of billions of dollars deploying 5G, a technology that requires 800,000 new cell antenna sites installed next to our homes and workplaces? Or should we develop RF exposure standards that fully protect humans and the environment and institute a risk management system based upon a formal risk assessment?

Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. His Electromagnetic Radiation Safety website, saferemr.com, has served as a resource for scientists, journalists, policy makers, and the public since 2013.

Read the article at at https://washingtonspectator.org/regulators-steamroll-health-concerns-as-the-global-economy-embraces-5g/

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Swisscom, Switzerland’s largest mobile operator, announced that it has achieved its plan to reach 90% of Switzerland’s population with 5G signals by the end of 2019.

The installed infrastructure will allow it to deliver a basic service, which will be slower than the final version but still 1,000 times more effective than 4G.

The first services will be commercialised in 2020, according to Urs Schaeppi from Swisscom. 5G compatible devices will be available from the first quarter of 2020.

Read more at:

Swisscom achieves 90 percent 5G coverage, despite public resistance

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From the Website Electromagnetic Radiation Safety by Joel Moskowitz

The research can be viewed at this link https://www.saferemr.com/2019/07/recent-research.html?fbclid=IwAR1dRGlVs7_xefI-DCuU3WnjC-lBSsS_BiVR8n_whMtNGuKm2e-ZF-wysQ4

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Prenatal exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic field and its impact on fetal growth https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-019-0447-9

The role of toxic stimuli combinations in determining safe exposure limits https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475001830622X?via%3Dihub

Public health and the radio frequency radiation emitted by cellphone technology, smart meters and WiFi https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30543616

Importance of Exposure Duration and Metrics on Correlation between RF Energy Absorption and Temperature Increase in a Human Model https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30561338

Characterizing radiated power in near field of a phone operating in 3G+ and 4G+ communication standards https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263224118311631

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The study, made public this week, is being published in the journal Environmental Research, and it suggests consumers should take extra precautions when they see only one or two “bars” of reception on their mobile phones. The authors state that “precautionary use of cell phones could lessen a user’s radiofrequency EMF exposure by a factor of up to 10,000.”

The cell phone radiation exposure study  in conjunction with Joel Moskowitz’s successful Public Records Act lawsuit played key roles in the California Department of Public Health’s decision to publish its landmark , “How to Reduce Exposure to Radiofrequency Energy from Cell Phones,” in December, 2017.

Real World Cellular Phone Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118305024

The paper concludes with “straightforward” recommendations that the public avoid using cell phones when signals are weak, and also recommends that people should limit overall cell phone exposure by using speakerphone, choosing texting rather than voice calls and distancing the phone away from the body, even in areas with strong network signals.

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An annotated bibliography which contains 92 papers published in scientific journals during the last two years that report evidence of harm from cell phone radiation exposure can be downloaded from:

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May 9, 2018
2:00 pm US Eastern Time  https://www.healthandenvironment.org/webinars/96433

As wireless technologies, particularly cellphones, become ever more ubiquitous in our culture and communication systems, researchers have been asking the question: what, if any, impact is there from this technology on our health? Research has been conducted investigating links with cancer, reproductive health, fetal development, children’s health, and electromagnetic sensitivities, among other concerns. We also encounter lower frequency electromagnetic fields produced by power lines, electrical wiring, and electrical equipment.

In May 2015, over 200 scientists signed the International EMF Scientist Appeal calling upon the United Nations and World Health Organization to address the emerging public health crisis related to cell phones and wireless devices and infrastructure. Electromagnetic fields have been classified as a possible carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) since 2012. And in 2016, the National Toxicology Program released partial findings from a multi-year animal study revealing an increased risk for cancer associated with EMF exposure.

Join us on May 9, 2018 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT to learn about the latest science on health impacts of EMF exposure and possibilities for policy change. Dr. Frank Barnes, Distinguished Professor in the Biomedical Group of the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado, will provide some of the current state of the science on how weak electric and magnetic fields can modify biological systems and the growth of cancer cells. Dr. Barnes is co-author of the Handbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields: Bioengineering and Biophysical Aspects of Electromagnetic Fields, soon to be released in a new edition. Dr. De-Kun Li, Senior Research Scientist at the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California and reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist, will present his team’s December 2017 study, Exposure to Magnetic Field Non-Ionizing Radiation and the Risk of Miscarriage: A Prospective Cohort Study. He will also discuss his perspective on overall issues in EMF research. Dr. Joel Moskowitz, Director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, will discuss policy-related developments. He will share his experience suing the California Department of Public Health in 2016 for not releasing a cell phone radiation fact sheet first developed in 2009. This lawsuit led to the issuance of the Department’s December 2017 Guidance Document, How to Reduce Exposure to Radio Frequency Energy from Cell Phones. Dr. Moskowitz will conclude with thoughts on possibilities and priorities in the policy arena.

This webinar will be moderated by Antoinette Stein, PhD, national coordinator of the CHE EMF Working Group. It will last for 60 minutes and be recorded for the call and webinar archive.

Please see the link for more information  about the featured speakers: https://www.healthandenvironment.org/webinars/96433

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“Berkeley is the first city in the country to get stores to post warnings. It’s a small step, but it’s an important step,” said Joel Moskowitz, PhD, director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Family and Community Health at the University’s School of Public Health.

In 2009, Moskowitz turned his focus from scientific research on the health effects of tobacco to cellphones after a visiting scholar from the National Cancer Center in South Korea exposed him to scientific literature looking at whether mobile phone use increased the risk of tumors.

“The cellphone manufacturers want you to keep a minimum distance away from your body and you should find out what that distance is,” Moskowitz said. “If you keep the device by your body you will exceed the safety limits provided by the FCC.”

That message is what Berkeley officials say is the purpose behind the city’s “Right to Know” ordinance: To educate the public that information on radiation exposure from mobile devices can be found in phone, tablet and laptop manuals.

“We’re just saying let’s take the information that’s buried in your cellphone and buried in the manual, and put it where someone might have a chance to read it,” said Berkeley councilman Kriss Worthington, who co-sponsored the ordinance with former councilman Max Anderson.

The city council voted unanimously to pass the ordinance in May 2015. That law now has the city in the middle of a federal lawsuit brought by the CTIA, The Wireless Association.

The CTIA is a Washington, D.C.-based trade group that represents the cellphone industry and is fighting in court to stop retailers from displaying the warnings.

A spokesman for the CTIA said the signs violate their First Amendment rights by compelling them to say something they don’t agree with.

“It sort of still surprises me that it could become the subject of a federal lawsuit and have so much money spent against it,” Worthington said. “We’re not trying to tell the cellphone companies to say something horrible about themselves. And the information isn’t even horrible, it’s basically saying be prudent, be careful.”

Read more at the link and watch the video http://www.kcra.com/article/how-this-sign-put-berkeley-in-the-center-of-the-cellphone-safety-debate/9171064

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