Cell Telephone Security Guidance From The California World Wellness Department
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California Department of Public Health issued cell telephone warnings on 12/13/2017. |
For links to related tidings coverage see:
California’s Cell Phone Safety Guidance: Media Coverage
Oct 3, 2018 (Updated Oct 9, 2018)
California Department of Public Health Study of Cell Phone Radiation Exposure
Apparently, the paper, "Real World Cellular Phone Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure," was submitted to the journal, Environmental Research, in addition to accepted for publication prior to the authors submitting their final edits.
At the asking of the authors, I removed my summary of the paper today in addition to volition re-post a revised summary when the terminal version of the paper is published.
Jan 4, 2018
Dec 13, 2017 (Updated Dec 14, 2017)
A side-by-side comparing of the jail Galvanic cell telephone security guidance published past times CDPH inward December, 2017 amongst the master copy draft prepared inward June, 2009 tin dismiss live on viewed at http://bit.ly/CDPH2017vs2009.
Dec 13, 2017 (Updated Dec 14, 2017)
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a press release to denote their long-awaited cell telephone warning document on December 13, 2017. The long-awaited document forewarns the populace almost wellness risks from exposure to jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations in addition to provides tips on how to trim down exposure.
This document originally prepared inward 2009 past times wellness professionals inside the CDPH Division of Environmental in addition to Occupational Disease Control underwent numerous revisions but was never published past times CDPH until now.
In March of this year, the Sacramento Superior Court ordered the CDPH to release the draft documents to Dr. Joel Moskowitz, the plaintiff inward a police force accommodate filed under the California Public Records Act past times the Environmental Law Clinic at UC Berkeley Law in addition to the First Amendment Project.
To comply amongst the courtroom order, CDPH released 27 versions of the document in addition to reimbursed legal expenses. The most recent draft, dated January, 2015, contained a bold watermark, "Draft in addition to Not for Public Release" in addition to a footnote, "Document released pursuant to Moskowitz v. CDPH, Sac. Super. Ct. No. 34-2016-80002358."
In July, the California Brain Tumor Association held a demonstration inward Sacramento exterior of CDPH to telephone phone for the populace release of the jail Galvanic cell telephone warning document.
The security recommendations inward the document released today past times CDPH are similar to those issued past times the Connecticut Department of Public Health inward May, 2015.
The document that CDPH published today understates the wellness risks from long-term exposure to jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations because the preponderance of the inquiry finds that jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations poses a major conduct chances to human health. In Feb of this year, the way argued in a courtroom hearing (Moskowitz v. CDPH) that it was afraid of creating panic amid the populace if the Department were to reveal the wellness risks from jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations exposure.
The Federal Communications Commission, the way responsible for regulating jail Galvanic cell phones, relies on industry-generated guidance that is 2 decades old. More than 230 scientists who receive got published peer-reviewed inquiry on electromagnetic fields in addition to wellness receive got signed a petition calling on all nations to adopt stronger regulations in addition to disclosure to the populace almost the wellness risks of electromagnetic fields.
The Federal Communications Commission, the way responsible for regulating jail Galvanic cell phones, relies on industry-generated guidance that is 2 decades old. More than 230 scientists who receive got published peer-reviewed inquiry on electromagnetic fields in addition to wellness receive got signed a petition calling on all nations to adopt stronger regulations in addition to disclosure to the populace almost the wellness risks of electromagnetic fields.
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| Excerpt from jail Galvanic cell telephone warning document issued past times California Dept of Public Health on 12/13/2017. |
July 24, 2017
Exposing California's Cell Phone Risk Cover-Up
Ecological Options Network, Jul 21, 2017 (10 infinitesimal video)
Opposing telecom totalitarianism inward Sacramento, jail Galvanic cell telephone security advocates Ellie Marks, Cindy Franklin, in addition to Toni Stein denounce the California Department of Public Health's refusal to release to the populace its ain cell telephone security advisory.
They likewise explicate how the bill, SB 649, directly moving through the legislature--and similar bills beingness pushed inward states around the country--would eliminate whatever local say-so over jail Galvanic cell tower placement in addition to resultant inward toxic antennas lining every block leaving the populace amongst no legal recourse.
June 19, 2017
What prevents CDPH from adopting the jail Galvanic cell telephone guidance document?
Following my successful populace records lawsuit against the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), reporters receive got posed 2 fundamental questions:
(1) “Why did the State of California suppress the CDPH jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations security guidance document (aka "fact sheet") from 2009 to 2015?”
(2) “Why won’t the State adopt the fact canvass directly since the evidence is much stronger for jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations wellness risks?”
Unfortunately, the documents that the Department released due to the Court ruling range non response these questions.
My interviews amongst fundamental informants advise that it was due to suppression past times “political appointees.” Opposition to releasing the document came from inside the Department in addition to from at to the lowest degree ane other way inside the province government.
In October, 2009, the CDPH conducted a webinar on electromagnetic land (EMF) exposures in addition to wellness effects which may shed some low-cal on the motivation for suppressing the fact sheet. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 presentation was made past times the onetime main of the CDPH Division of Occupational in addition to Environmental Health, the sectionalization that prepared the jail Galvanic cell telephone guidance document before that year.
Although Raymond Neutra, MD, MPH, DrPH, had retired from CDPH 2 years earlier, equally the onetime main of the CDPH EMF Program, he was asked to acquaint the reasons for precaution regarding jail Galvanic cell telephone use. He served on scientific advisory boards for the National Institutes of Health in addition to the World Health Organization in addition to was considered an international adept inward electromagnetic fields in addition to health.
Dr. Neutra posed the next question, “How surely must nosotros live on of how much ill-health from jail Galvanic cell phones, cordless phones in addition to base of operations stations before nosotros would opt for inexpensive or expensive protection?”
Speaking equally a individual citizen, he argued nosotros shouldn’t demand certainty to lower our exposure 100-fold.
He presented the next precautionary recommendations:
• Keep jail Galvanic cell telephone off most of the time
• Use ear slice or speaker function
• Place on tabular array 3 feet away before turning on
• Write downwards telephone messages
• Return calls, in addition to then plough off
• Keep it off inward omnibus when others mightiness live on exposed
Next, he addressed the reasons why authorities requires to a greater extent than certainty before recommending precaution:
• Industry lawyers in addition to lobbyists afraid that precautionary authorities recommendations
will back upwardly tort police force suits
• Industry afraid that “alarmed” citizens volition force for more
• Lobbyists pressure level authorities non to number them
I would debate that although nosotros directly receive got substantially to a greater extent than evidence that jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations is harmful, the telecommunication in addition to wireless industries receive got much greater political in addition to economical ability at the province in addition to Federal level. Moreover, manufacture motivation to suppress precautionary policies is probable equally strong equally ever.
Thus, nosotros should non live on surprised that governments neglect to furnish the populace amongst precautionary recommendations almost jail Galvanic cell telephone use. Nor should nosotros surprised that wireless radiations regulations receive got non been updated since 1996.
The slides for Dr. Neutra’s 2009 presentation tin dismiss live on downloaded from http://bit.ly/neutra2009.
In January, 2010, Dr. Neutra appeared inward a one-minute populace service announcement, "Cell Phones: Teens inward the driver's seat," in which he provides precautionary wellness advice to adolescents almost how to usage cellphones to a greater extent than safely. He stated inward the film:
June 1, 2017
In January, 2010, Dr. Neutra appeared inward a one-minute populace service announcement, "Cell Phones: Teens inward the driver's seat," in which he provides precautionary wellness advice to adolescents almost how to usage cellphones to a greater extent than safely. He stated inward the film:
"We're starting to acquire some evidence that the electrical in addition to magnetic fields from jail Galvanic cell phones tin dismiss crusade encephalon cancer, impact sperm count in addition to crusade other wellness problems."
June 1, 2017
Melody Gutierrez."New records demo how province reworked underground jail Galvanic cell telephone warnings,"
San Francisco Chronicle, May 19, 2017 (published online first) http://bit.ly/CDPHsfchron
In March, the San Francisco Chronicle was the start paper to report on a lawsuit we filed against the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to obtain a jail Galvanic cell telephone security guidance document that was never released to the populace (Moskowitz v CDPH).
The Chronicle also published an editorial in March encouraging the province to release this jail Galvanic cell telephone security information to the public,
In May, the Chronicle reported the outcome of our case. CDPH released 27 versions of a jail Galvanic cell telephone security "fact sheet" originally created inward 2009 in addition to updated through 2014. The documents were released to us inward compliance amongst a courtroom order.
"Newly released populace records demo that California populace wellness officials worked for 5 years on a laid of guidelines to warn the populace almost the potential dangers of jail Galvanic cell phones, revising their piece of work 27 times amongst updated inquiry before abandoning the efforts without e'er making their concerns populace until ordered past times a judge."
CDPH refused the Chronicle's public tape asking just equally it previously denied our populace tape requests:
"The Chronicle submitted a populace records asking to the wellness subdivision inward March, asking for emails or documents related to why the jail Galvanic cell telephone guidelines were never approved to live on made populace — in addition to to come across whether at that topographic point was whatever exterior influence. The subdivision refused to release records, maxim those that existed were protected past times attorney-client privilege."
In response to a asking for an interview, CDPH issued a written disputation to the Chronicle which indicated that the Department yet does non intend to adopt in addition to distribute to the populace its jail Galvanic cell telephone security guidelines:
"The disputation from the California Department of Public Health said at that topographic point are no plans to post the guidelines on its website."
May 22, 2017
California Department of Public Health Releases
Secret Cell Phone Safety Guidance
The San Francisco Chronicle published this news story online May 19, 2017.
The California Attorney General’s Office released 27 versions of a jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations security fact canvass prepared past times the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) initially inward 2009 in addition to revised multiple times through January, 2015.
The State has never adopted this fact canvass nor released it to the populace due to suppression past times “political appointees” according to my sources.
The recommendations inward the terminal version of the fact canvass are sound. CDPH should adopt in addition to disseminate the fact canvass now. The populace has a correct to know the information that the Department’s wellness professionals receive got been trying to part amongst them since 2009. I farther recommend that the fact canvass live on updated annually consistent amongst the latest research.
The fact canvass is based upon reviews of the inquiry conducted past times the CDPH Division of Environmental in addition to Occupational Disease Control betwixt 2009 in addition to 2014.
The master copy document reflected a consensus of the Division (Document 25, file date: 6/17/2009; pp.104-109). The fact canvass summarized inquiry on the wellness effects associated amongst exposure to jail Galvanic cell telephone in addition to cordless telephone radiation. It provided recommendations to the California Department of General Services, the “business manager” for the State, regarding jail Galvanic cell telephone purchases. The fact canvass likewise included security tips for province employees in addition to the full general public, specially children, almost prophylactic usage of phones to minimize exposure to wireless radiation.
The final version of the fact sheet omits recommendations to the Department of General Services in addition to does non verbalize over cordless phones (Document 1, file appointment 1/26/2015; pp. 6-8).
In 2014, I submitted iii requests to the CDPH nether the California Public Records Act for this information. All iii requests were denied.
In 2016, the UC Berkeley School of Law Environmental Law Clinic in addition to the First Amendment Project filed a lawsuit on my behalf inward the Sacramento Superior Court.
On May 12 of this year, the Attorney General’s business office mailed us 27 documents to comply amongst the March xiii courtroom ruling.
The illustration is Dr. Joel Moskowitz v. California Department of Public Health (#34-2016-80002358).
Supplemental materials
Substantive changes to fact sheet: http://bit.ly/CDPHchanges
Table of contents for 27 versions of fact sheet: http://bit.ly/CDPHToC
Contents of 27 versions of fact canvass (8 MB file): http://bit.ly/AGCDPHdocs
March 15, 2017
Cellphone Radiation Safety Document
The Sacramento Superior Court has ordered the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to release the Department's jail Galvanic cell telephone usage guidance document without superimposed markings.
This jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations security document, originally prepared inward 2010 past times wellness professionals inward the CDPH Environmental Health Investigations Branch, has been suppressed past times political appointees over the years.
On March 13, Judge Shelleyanne Chang re-issued the tentative ruling she made prior to the hearing:
This jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations security document, originally prepared inward 2010 past times wellness professionals inward the CDPH Environmental Health Investigations Branch, has been suppressed past times political appointees over the years.
On March 13, Judge Shelleyanne Chang re-issued the tentative ruling she made prior to the hearing:
And she appended the next subdivision to the Court's terminal ruling:
On March 2, prior to the judge's ruling, CDPH emailed a version of the cell telephone usage guidance document, entitled "Cell Phones in addition to Health," to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who attended the courtroom hearing. CDPH had defaced this version amongst large markings indicating "Draft in addition to Not for Public Release."
The estimate did non consider the document a "preliminary draft" because the document was maintained past times CDPH staff since 2010, in addition to the inwardness of the document changed little over time despite multiple updates past times staff.
The courtroom order, dated March 13, 2017, is labeled "Ruling on Submitted Matter in addition to Order: Petition for Writ of Mandate in addition to Complaint for Declarative Relief."
The ruling tin dismiss live on downloaded from http://bit.ly/MvCDPHfinal.
The ruling tin dismiss live on downloaded from http://bit.ly/MvCDPHfinal.
The unaltered jail Galvanic cell telephone usage guidance document volition live on available hither when the CDPH complies amongst the Court order.
March 4, 2017
"Warnings on Cell Phone Use"
aka "State kept underground guidelines on jail Galvanic cell telephone use"
Photos from the San Francisco Chronicle front page in addition to the Editorial look below along amongst links to tidings coverage of this story.
March 2, 2017 (Updated 10:10 PM)
Last May nosotros sued the California Department of Public Health for a jail Galvanic cell telephone security guidance document nether the California Public Records Act. The document was originally prepared inward 2010 in addition to has been updated several times but never released to the public.
Late this afternoon, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) emailed a cell telephone guidance document, entitled "Cell Phones in addition to Health," to Melody Gutierrez, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who attended our courtroom hearing.
This "fact sheet" summarizes inquiry on jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations wellness risks in addition to provides security tips on how to trim down jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations exposure. The document highlights a potentially greater conduct chances to "pregnant women, children, in addition to teens." The security recommendations are similar to those issued past times the Connecticut Department of Public Health inward May, 2015.
We are grateful to come across CDPH’s jail Galvanic cell telephone guidance document after a long battle for it.
The CDPH document is marked "released pursuant to Moskowitz v. CDPH, Sac. Super. Ct. No. 34-2016-8000-2358" in addition to "Draft in addition to Not for Public Release."
Apparently, CDPH does non intend to appeal the merits of the court's ruling that the document must live on disclosed. However, the way of release is troubling. CDPH has non waited for the courtroom to finalize its ruling in addition to determine whether CDPH may dot that the document does non (as it argued at the hearing) correspond its current, official position. Rather, the way has "jumped the gun" in addition to stamped novel lettering inward huge night letters across the confront of the document thus equally to arrive virtually illegible. Further, that lettering states that the document is “draft in addition to non for populace release” when the judge's tentative ruling stated just the contrary -- that the document was not a draft, in addition to must live on publicly released.
CDPH has essentially created a novel document rather than produced the document as-is, inward violation of the Public Records Act. To the extent that CDPH wanted just to dot that the document does non correspond its official topographic point inward early on 2017, the fact that the document is dated “April 2014” should brand that plain.
An occupation concern human relationship of our attempts to obtain the document in addition to the lawsuit filed past times the UC Berkeley Environmental Law Clinic in addition to the First Amendment Project on my behalf appears below. The judge's tentative ruling on our lawsuit is available (see link below).
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| Excerpt from the tentative ruling. |
Why has the California Department of Public Health
suppressed a jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations security document since 2010?
In 2010, wellness professionals inward the Environmental Health Investigations Branch of CDPH prepared a jail Galvanic cell telephone guidance document that summarized the scientific discipline regarding the wellness risks from jail Galvanic cell telephone radiations in addition to provided precautionary recommendations to the populace for limiting personal exposure.
Why was this document never officially released to the public?
I learned almost the existence of the document inward belatedly 2013. In January, 2014, I submitted a formal asking for the document to the CDPH nether the California Public Records Act (CPRA).
Dr. Richard Kreutzer, the Division Chief for Environmental in addition to Occupational Disease Control inward CDPH, contacted me iii days later. He informed me that the document was of late revised in addition to was nether review past times the State. He asked me to withdraw my asking since the terminal approved version should live on available inside iii weeks. When I asked how long the document had been nether review, he responded that the review was "freshly re-started this year," in addition to that the electrical flow draft is similar to a previous version "that stalled iii years ago" patch nether review past times the State. I opted non to withdraw my request.
In April, 2014, I spoke to the Deputy Director for Legislative in addition to Governmental Affairs at CDPH. She informed me that the document was nether review past times a "state way outside" of CDPH. She implied that the document had cleared CDPH's blessing procedure in addition to promised to furnish me amongst periodic updates regarding its status.
In June, 2014, since no ane contacted me and the document had non been released, I submitted a 2nd asking nether the CPRA. The CDPH denied this asking arguing that they are exempt from disclosing “preliminary drafts,” in addition to that the populace involvement inward nondisclosure exceeded the populace involvement inward disclosure of this document.
In September, 2014, based upon my information an investigative reporter from the New York Times requested the document, but his asking was likewise denied.
My terminal CPRA asking was submitted inward January, 2015. CDPH denied this asking in addition to provided a novel rationale: “In low-cal of the updated guidance issued past times the CDC [federal Centers for Disease Prevention in addition to Control] inward June of 2014, CDPH has chosen non to number a guidance document on radio frequency EMF in addition to jail Galvanic cell phones.”
After my terminal rejection, I interviewed several CDPH wellness professionals who were familiar amongst the jail Galvanic cell telephone guidance document. All idea the document should receive got been published past times the Department. None could explicate why the State suppressed the document or why the Department refused to release it to me.
Based upon this information, I decided to sue the CDPH for the jail Galvanic cell telephone guidance document. The environmental police force hospital at the University of California, Berkeley Law School in addition to the First Amendment Project are representing me pro bono. In May, 2016, nosotros filed a lawsuit inward the Superior Court of the County of Sacramento. The illustration was assigned to Judge Shellyanne Chang.
CDPH asserted that “[t]he public’s wellness may live on harmed” simply past times release of the Document (Starr Decl., ¶ 19(a)) ... that the memo “will needlessly confuse, in addition to perchance alarm, jail Galvanic cell telephone users” (id., ¶ 24; same); in addition to fifty-fifty speculates that release of the Document volition crusade both those with and without cancer to overflowing physicians’ offices to ventilate hysterical fright of jail Galvanic cell phones (Id. at ¶ 27).
In its opposition brief, CDPH confuses the populace in addition to individual interests inward withholding the document, suggesting that the populace involvement inward receiving advice almost prophylactic jail Galvanic cell telephone usage must live on discounted “[because] a portion of the public, namely the wireless manufacture in addition to jail Galvanic cell telephone manufacturers . . . probable receive got no involvement inward the dissemination of the jail Galvanic cell telephone guidance document" (p. 15).
Judge Chang held a hearing on Feb 24, 2017. Prior to the hearing, she issued a seven-page tentative ruling inward which she over-ruled 8 of the nine objections submitted past times the Attorney General on behalf of the CDPH. The tentative ruling granted our petition in addition to directed CDPH to release the Cellular Phone Use Guidance documentation.
The courtroom documents are available online (case number: 2016 80002358) at
https://services.saccourt.ca.gov/PublicCaseAccess/Civil/SearchByCaseNumber
We are waiting for the judge's terminal ruling on the case.
