Sundheds- og Ældreudvalget 2017-18
SUU Alm.del Bilag 294
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Adverse Health Effects of Radiation
from
Mobile Phones and Wireless
Networks
by
Olle Johansson, Ph.D.
(prev.) Associate Professor (KI)
(prev.) Adjunct Professor (KTH)
(prev.) Guest Professor (KTH)
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“So
what is it our politicians have such a hard
time to understand?”,
Per Moberg, actor and
chef de cuisine, for the campaign “Rädda
Östersjötorsken”.
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You, as the Danish’ elected representatives,
and I, as their employed scientist, are not here
to promote convenience or economic growth,
but only “to
serve and protect”
human health
and biological safety, as well as to protect
other animals, plants, and bacteria.
These aims must be our only target.
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From the current vast scientific literature, it is
obvious we must proceed with caution before
immersing the citizens in more and more
artificial electromagnetic fields.
We may, as a matter of fact, already be
gravely endangering our current as well as
coming generations.
To not act today, may prove a disaster
tomorrow, and such lack of action may again
result in the classical “late
lessons from early
warnings”.
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History of EMFs health effects
2001/2002:
WHO classify powerfrequency magnetic fields as possibly
carcinogenic (Class 2B).*
2011:
WHO classify radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly
carcinogenic (Class 2B).*
2016-2018:
The American National Toxicology Program; brain and heart
tumours after exposure to mobile phone radiation.
May 6, 2011: ”Ban
mobile phones and wireless networks in schools”,
says
the Council of Europe, since these technologies have "potentially
harmful"
effects on humans.
The Council of Europe concluded that
immediate (!) action was required to protect children.
(*So we do put our children in an exposure which the WHO has classified as equally bad as many very
dangerous substances, such as DDT, lead, formaldehyde, petrol and diesel exhausts, welding smoke,
etc. …A paradox, is it not…?)
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So what can we now learn from
science?
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”26 patients viewed at 60-min video
featuring weather information,
while having 26 mobile phones
calling for 60 min without
sound.”
Skin wheal responses, mm
House dust mite
Before
After
6.0±0.07
7.5±0.09
p<0.01
Japanese cedar pollen
Before
After
4.9±0.04
6.4±0.06
p<0.01
”These results indicate that
microwave radiation from
mobile phones may enhance
allergen-induced wheal re-
sponses
in association with the
release of SP and VIP.”
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”Use
of cell phones decrease the
semen quality in men
by
decreasing the sperm count,
motility, viability, and normal
morphology. The decrease in
sperm parameters was depend-
ent on the duration of daily
exposure to cell phones and
independent of the initial semen
quality.”
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”A progressive decrease in the
number of newborns per dam
was observed, which ended in
irreversible infertility.”
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”Exposure
of pregnant women to
mobile phone significantly
increase fetal and neonatal
heart rate, and significantly
decreased the cardiac output.”
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”After 45 min of exposure to
pulsed 2450 MHz micro-waves
(2 microseconds pulses, 500
pps, 1 mW/cm2, average whole
body SAR 0.6 W/kg),
rats
showed retarded learning
while
performing in the radial-arm
maze to obtain food rewards,
indicating a deficit in spatial
"working memory" function. …
These data indicate that both
cholinergic and endogenous
opioid neurotransmitter systems
in the brain are involved in the
microwave-induced spatial
memory deficit.”
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”In conclusion, the present
findings suggest that
Wi-Fi
exposure may exert gender-
related alterations on neural
activity associated with the
amount of attentional resources
engaged during a linguistic test
adjusted to induce working
memory.”
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”It was found that 900 megahertz of
electromagnetic field significantly
reduced the total pyramidal cell
number in the cornu ammonis
(p<0.001).
Therefore, although its
exact mechanism is not clear, it is
suggested that
pyramidal cell loss
in the cornu ammonis could be due
to the 900 mega-hertz electro-
magnetic field exposure in the
prenatal period.”
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”EMFs
disturb immune function
through stimulation of various
allergic and inflammatory
responses, as well as effects on
tissue repair processes. Such
disturbances increase the risks
for various diseases, including
cancer.”
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About safety…
Always remember this about the various guideline recommendations (given as µW/m2):
10 000 000 µW/m2 – FCC (USA) OET-65, recommendation
9 000 000 µW/m2 – ICNIRP 1998; WHO, recommendation
(in Denmark!)
100 000 µW/m2 – Russia and Italy, recommendation
1 000 µW/m2 – the Bioinitiative Report 2007, recommendation
170 µW/m2 – the Seletun Statement 2010, recommendation
10 µW/m2 – Kalle Hellberg, Maxicom AB 2003, recommendation
3 µW/m2 – the Bioinitiative Report 2012, revised recommendation
1 µW/m2 – Kalle Hellberg, Maxicom AB 2004, revised recommendation
0.1 µW/m2 – contribution from the sun at daytime during big solar storms
However, there is only one hygienic
safety
value ever proposed:
0.000001-0.00000000001 µW/m2 – this is the natural background during
normal cosmic activities; proposed by Olle Johansson, Karolinska Institutet
1997, as a
genuine hygienic safety value!
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”These responses occur very soon
after exposure, strongly
suggesting that they are the
direct consequence of applica-
tion of radiofrequency fields
and their similarities to wound
responses strongly suggests that
this radiation is perceived by
plants as an injurious
stimulus.”
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”Taheri
et al (2017) has demon-
strated that the exposure to 900
MHz GSM mobile phone
radiation and 2.4 GHz radio
frequency radiation emitted
from common Wi-Fi routers
made Listeria monocytogenes
and Escherichia coli resistant
to different antibiotics.”
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But what are we doing about it?!
And what are others up to…?
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Johansson O.
1983, 1985, 1989, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
2015, 2016, 2017…and
2018 (Copenhagen),
2019, 2020…?
”This is the largest full-scale
experiment ever: What
happens when we, 24-
hours around the clock,
wherever we are, allow
ourselves and our children
to be used as guinea-pigs,
whole-body-irradiated
(at
colossal exposure levels!)
for the rest of our lives?”
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“Based on the
(UN)
Precautionary
Principle,
children and vulnerable
groups (such as people with
epilepsy and heart conditions)
should not be exposed to a risk of
harm, thus
we propose that
children under 16 should use
mobile phones and cordless phones
for emergency calls only. No Wi-fi,
WiMax or other forms of wireless
networking are placed in homes,
schools or public areas
or
promoted for use thereof.”
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The Precautionary Principle IRL!
A bill to ban phones in schools was introduced in
France
in 2009, and further
tightened in January 29, 2015. Bans came into effect in places like
Nigeria
in
2012, around the time that teachers in the
Solomon Islands
called for phones
to be banned in their schools.
Uganda
banned phones in schools in 2013, one
year after
Malaysia
reaffirmed its own similar ban. And it's not only been in
schools where young people have been prohibited from using their phones
over the years. In one prefecture in
Japan
in 2014 children were not allowed
to use phones after 9 pm, not long after
Belgium
banned the sales and
advertising of phones to children under seven. Earlier last year (2015), bans on
student use of phones inside and outside of schools were considered in
Indonesia.
Press release February 27, 2017: “First
in the Nation:
Maryland (USA)
State
Children’s Environmental Health And Protection Advisory Council Issues
New Recommendations To Reduce Wi-Fi”
Press release March 6, 2017: “Cyprus
Removes Wi-Fi from Kindergartens and
Halts Wireless Deployment Into Public Elementary Schools”*
(*But where are Sweden and Denmark…?)
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Wireless gadgets – are they safe?
Do not believe that mobile phones,
iPads and Wi-Fi are safe; they
are not!
(And, as you soon will
see, the major ‘players’ in our
society already know it.)
These
gadgets and their EMFs
interfere with normal brain
function, learning and memory,
fertility, cancer risks and have
been shown to shatter the DNA
in cells. All of this can be found
in peer-reviewed scientific
journals but, until now, has not
been in the public domain.
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…another ’precautionary principle’
But what about the really powerful ’players’?
The
WHO,
the
radiation protection authorities,
the
telecom
operators,
the
telecom manufacturers,
and the
insurance and
reassurance companies
have, all of them, listened very carefully
and years ago completely abandoned the ”safe” ship. [Is this not
more telling than any scientific publication ever can be?! --- cf.
”When
in doubt, always follow the money!”])
April 12, 2018, The Danish Parliament, Christiansborg,
Copenhagen, Denmark:
So maybe the only correct answer is: No
more full-scale experimentation at all until the above big ’players’
climb on board again to cover any form of future legal liability
claims?!
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Thank you so much for listening!!
;-)