Icnirp’S Exposure Guidelines For Radio Frequency Fields
Feb 12, 2019 (Updated Mar 15)
The "ICNIRP Cartel" together with "The 5G Mass Experiment"
"... it could also harm your health. Europe's governments ignore the danger."
As component of a projection called, “The 5G Mass Experiment,” Investigate Europe, a squad of investigative journalists from the European Union (EU), examined the risks of deployment of 5G, the 5th generation of mobile telephone technology, together with the adequacy of electromagnetic champaign (EMF) security guidelines promoted past times the International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP).
To date, the squad has published xvi articles inward major newspapers together with magazines inward 7 European Union countries: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, together with Portugal.
Investigate Europe alleges the existence of an “ICNIRP cartel.” The journalists identified a grouping of xiv scientists who either helped create, or defend, the EMF exposure guidelines disseminated past times ICNIRP, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based inward Germany. ICNIRP’s self-selected members together with advisors believe that EMF security guidelines ask to protect humans alone from heating (or thermal) effects due to needlelike EMF exposure. ICNIRP scientists struggle that the thousands of peer-reviewed studies that lead maintain found harmful biologic or wellness effects from chronic exposure to non-thermal levels of EMF are insufficient to warrant stronger security guidelines. The journalists struggle that the cartel promotes the ICNIRP guidelines past times conducting biased reviews of the scientific literature that minimize wellness risks from EMF exposure. These reviews lead maintain been conducted for the World Health Organization (WHO) together with other regime agencies. By preserving the ICNIRP EMF exposure guidelines favored past times industry, the cartel ensures that the cellular manufacture volition move along to fund wellness effects research. Besides these xiv scientists, maybe several dozen EMF scientists inward the European Union together with other countries actively defend the ICNIRP exposure guidelines.
In contrast to the dozens of EMF scientists who back upward the ICNIRP EMF exposure guidelines, to a greater extent than than 240 EMF scientists from 42 nations who published peer-reviewed question on EMF together with biological scientific discipline or wellness totaling over 2,000 papers lead maintain signed the International EMF Scientist Appeal. The Appeal calls on the WHO, the UN together with all fellow member nations to adopt much stronger EMF exposure guidelines that protect humans together with other species from sub-thermal levels of EMF exposure together with to number wellness warnings nigh the risks of EMF exposure.
The 5G Mass Experiment together with the ICNIRP Cartel
A compilation of the information gathered past times Investigate Europe nigh the ICNIRP Cartel members together with the wellness agencies that the Cartel affected tin move downloaded at:
http://bit.ly/ICNIRPcartel-021519.
The information on the these pages was extracted from “The ICNIRP Cartel: Who’s Who inward the EMF Research World,” an interactive graphic developed past times Investigate Europe which tin move found at https://www.investigate-europe.eu/publications/how-much-is-safe/.
A compilation of the information gathered past times Investigate Europe nigh the ICNIRP Cartel members together with the wellness agencies that the Cartel affected tin move downloaded at:
http://bit.ly/ICNIRPcartel-021519.
The information on the these pages was extracted from “The ICNIRP Cartel: Who’s Who inward the EMF Research World,” an interactive graphic developed past times Investigate Europe which tin move found at https://www.investigate-europe.eu/publications/how-much-is-safe/.
For to a greater extent than information see:
Investigate Europe (2019). The 5G Mass Experiment. https://www.investigate-europe.eu/publications/the-5g-mass-experiment/. (Google Translate is a useful tool for translating these articles into other languages.)
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Nov 1, 2018
THE EMF CALL: Scientists together with NGO's telephone yell upward for amend protection from Exposure to Radiation from Wireless Technology
Press-Release November 1, 2018
157 scientists together with medical doctors together amongst 86 non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) from all over the ground are calling for to a greater extent than protective limits for exposure to radiofrequency radiations from wireless technologies. In a articulation statement, THE EMF CALL, they conclude that the ICNIRP guidelines are unscientific together with exercise non protect against harmful wellness effects including cancer.
The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) issued draft Guidelines on 11th July 2018 for limiting exposure to electric, magnetic together with electromagnetic fields (EMF) (100 kHz to 300 GHz). The guidelines are inadequate to protect humans together with the environment, equally they alone protect against needlelike thermal effects from really brusk together with intense exposure. They exercise non protect against cancer, reproductive harm, or effects on the nervous system, although the preponderance of the peer-reviewed question has found adverse effects from chronic exposure at intensities below the ICNIRP limits.
In May, 2011, the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), concluded that radiofrequency radiation in the frequency gain xxx kHz–300 GHz is a “possible” human carcinogen (Group 2B). However, the ICNIRP ignores this equally good equally the increasing prove inward recent years for carcinogenicity.
The scientists together with the NGO’s demand the evolution together with adoption of novel medical guidelines that correspond the dry ground of medical scientific discipline together with that are genuinely protective of human wellness together with the environment. The scientists together with medical doctors, selected to review the scientific literature together with suggest novel radiofrequency radiations security guidelines, must move gratis of conflicts of involvement including straight together with indirect ties to industry.
Professor David Carpenter, Director at the Institute for Health together with the Environment, University of Albany, USA notes that:
- The prove for harm from both 50/60 Hz EMFs together with radiofrequency exposures is rigid inward both human together with beast studies. There are associations betwixt increasing exposure non alone amongst cancer, but also amongst adverse reproductive outcomes inward both males together with females, adverse effects on cognitive component together with conduct together with increased adventure of evolution of the syndrome of electro-hypersensitivity. We must disclose ways of reducing human exposure inward monastic tell to cut down the incidence of human disease.
Dr. Lennart Hardell, Swedish oncologist amongst long-term question inward this surface area says:
- The roll-out of 5G, the 5th generation of telecommunications engineering scientific discipline volition substantially increment exposure to radiofrequency radiation. Thus, inward add-on to the urgent ask for novel guidelines on electrical flow exposure a moratorium on the roll-out of 5G should move implemented.
Dr Joel Moskowitz, from the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA points out that the EMF CALL re-iterates the concerns raised past times the scientific community inward the International EMF Scientist Appeal nigh the harm caused past times chronic exposure to low-intensity EMF:
- The Appeal, which has been signed past times to a greater extent than than 240 scientists who lead maintain published over 2,000 peer-reviewed papers on EMF together with biological scientific discipline or health, calls for strengthening of EMF guidelines, especially to protect children together with important women. For to a greater extent than information nigh the Appeal, see https://emfscientist.org .
According to Dr Gerd Oberfeld, from the Salzburg Public Health Department, Austria, the ground has also long relied on incomplete EMF exposure guidelines:
- The torso of scientific prove for detrimental wellness effects from EMF exposure is overwhelming. There is directly fifty-fifty no ask to telephone yell upward the precautionary regulation into play to lead maintain action. It is the duty of scientists to inform the populace together with the duty of the populace to forcefulness governments to apply novel genuinely protective EMF exposure guidelines equally good equally to educate the guild how to cut down EMF exposures.
Contacts:
David Carpenter, email: dcarpenter@albany.edu
Lennart Hardell, email: lennart.hardell@environmentandcancer.com
Joel Moskowitz, email: jmm@berkeley.edu
Gerd Oberfeld, email: gerd.oberfeld@salzburg.gv.at
See THE EMF CALL together with all signatories at: www.emfcall.org
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How the Mobile Communication Industry Deals amongst Science as Illustrated past times ICNIRP versus NTP
Franz Adlkofer, Pandora Foundation for independent research, Oct 26, 2018
The evolution of mobile communication technologies starting amongst 1G upward to directly 5G is a success story rarely heard of previously. It has alone been possible because manufacture experts inward accuse of the engineering scientific discipline assumed that radiofrequency (RF) radiations together with its modulations – similar to visible low-cal – are biologically harmless. They believed inward security limits that reliably protect people alone from the needlelike thermal effects of RF radiations inherent inward the system. Biological effects below the security limits were categorically ruled out because their existence allegedly contradicted the laws of physics.
So, the technical usage of RF radiations inward mobile communication has experienced hardly whatever limitation. Doubts nigh the harmlessness of this radiation, but equally one-time equally the technique itself, lead maintain been countered past times the mobile communication manufacture equally incorrect together with without basis. Compliant scientists, whose preferred sentiment was to a greater extent than of import than their qualifications, were generously supported and, past times using political connections, placed inward national together with international advisory together with decision-making bodies.
A milestone inward putting through the interests of the mobile communication manufacture was the institution of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) inward 1992. It is a non-governmental organization. Michael Repacholi, together with then caput of the WHO’s EMF Project, managed to larn official recognition for this grouping past times the WHO equally good equally the European Union together with a serial of its fellow member states, amid them Germany. Repacholi, starting fourth dimension ICNIRP chairman together with after emeritus – member, left the WHO after allegations of corruption inward 2006 together with found a novel seat equally a consultant to an American electricity provider. ICNIRP’s most of import chore is the institution of security limits for non-ionizing radiations including RF radiation. Its decisions are of utmost importance for the mobile communication industry’s economical together with strategic planning. The ICNIRP, whose members are convinced of the harmlessness of RF radiation, has never changed its mental attitude despite all question progress made inward this champaign since 1992. To guarantee that the mobile communication manufacture tin permanently rely on ICNIRP, the succession of a fellow member who leaves is regulated past times statute. The remaining members select the novel 1 on the ground of usual understanding. Together amongst the other groups mentioned higher upward ICNIRP has ensured that mobile communication manufacture is non alone dominating the technical question to which it is entitled to, but also the biological question – this at the expense of the human health.
ICNIRP is an association amongst a scientific mission that is registered inward Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany equally a nonprofit organization. It is “formally recognized equally an official collaborating non-governmental organisation (NGO) past times the World Health Organization (WHO) together with the International Labour Organization (ILO). ICNIRP is linked to many organizations engaged inward non-ionizing radiations protection worldwide together with consults amongst the European Commission.”
ICNIRP’s novel draft security guidelines dismiss the question on the effects of chronic exposure to non-thermal levels of RF radiation. In its latest wellness adventure assessment, ICNIRP concludes that in that location are no “substantiated” adverse effects of RF radiations on human health. See Appendix B: Health Risk Assessment Literature together with a summary of the findings which appears below.
Following is ICNIRP’s justification for ignoring most of the EMF question inward its wellness adventure assessment:
"ICNIRP bases its guidelines on substantiated adverse wellness effects. This makes the departure betwixt a biological together with an adverse wellness number an of import distinction, where alone adverse wellness effects require limits for the protection of humans." (ICNIRP Guidelines: Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Time-Varying Electric, Magnetic together with Electromagnetic Fields [100 kHz TO 300 GHz]. July 11, 2018 draft. p. 2)
“These guidelines specify quantitative EMF levels for rubber personal exposure. Adherence to these levels is intended to protect people from all known harmful effects of radiofrequency EMF exposure. To determine these levels, ICNIRP starting fourth dimension identified published scientific literature concerning effects of radiofrequency EMF exposure on biological systems, and established which of these were both harmful to human health, together with scientifically substantiated. This latter dot is of import because ICNIRP considers that, inward general, reported effects ask to move independently replicated, move of sufficient scientific character together with explicable to a greater extent than by together with large inside the context of the scientific literature, inward monastic tell to move taken equally ‘evidence’ together with used for setting exposure restrictions. Within the guidelines, ‘evidence’ volition move used inside this context, together with ‘substantiated effect’ used to depict reported effects that satisfy this Definition of evidence. (ICNIRP Guidelines: Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Time-Varying Electric, Magnetic together with Electromagnetic Fields [100 kHz TO 300 GHz].” July 11, 2018 draft. p. 2)
Public consultation on ICNIRP RF exposure guidelines
If you lot select to render populace input to ICNIRP, the draft documents consist of RF exposure guidelines together with 2 appendices. Appendix A reviews dosimetry, together with Appendix B summarizes the wellness adventure assessment.
The consultation procedure which began on July eleven ends on Oct 9, 2018. ICNIRP members volition review populace comments prior to finalizing the RF exposure guidelines. ICNIRP volition non respond to comments.
To render comments on the draft documents, consummate the cast on the ICNIRP website or the template available at https://www.icnirp.org/en/activities/public-consultation/consultation-1.html
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My editorial comments
To date, 242 scientists who lead maintain published peer-reviewed question on EMF together with biological scientific discipline or wellness lead maintain signed the EMF Scientist Appeal. Collectively, these scientists from 41 nations lead maintain published more than 2,000 papers on EMF. The Appeal calls on the WHO together with the UN including its fellow member states to adopt to a greater extent than protective exposure guidelines for EMF including RF radiations inward the seem upward of increasing prove of wellness risks since these exposures are a quickly growing cast of worldwide environmental pollution.
In a lately published, peer-reviewed paper, “Thermal together with non-thermal wellness effects of depression intensity non-ionizing radiation: An international perspective,” Belpomme together with his colleagues (2018) criticize the WHO due to its reliance upon ICNIRP together with its members for adept advice. The paper claims that ICNIRP together with its advisors lead maintain “close associations amongst industry,” together with “conflicts of interest.” According to the authors, ICNIRP together with its advisors lead maintain been engaged inward decades of “denial of serious non-thermal effects of RF-EMFs inward spite of overwhelming scientific prove to the contrary.”
Moreover, Belpomme together with his colleagues criticize ICNIRP’s security limits:
“The specific absorption charge per unit of measurement (SAR)-based ICNIRP security limits were established on the ground of simulation of EMF unloose energy absorption using standardized adult virile somebody phantoms, together with designed to protect people alone from the thermal effects of EMFs. These assumptions are non valid for 2 reasons. Not alone exercise they neglect to consider the specific morphological together with bioclinical vulnerabilities of children, but also they ignore the effects known to occur at non-thermal intensities….”
Finally, Belpomme together with his colleagues (2018) render a summary of the peer-reviewed scientific literature that arrives at really unlike conclusions than ICNIRP's wellness adventure assessment:
"It is urgent that national together with international bodies, especially the WHO, lead maintain this important populace wellness jeopardy seriously together with brand appropriate recommendations for protective measures to cut down exposures. This is especially urgently needed for children together with adolescents. It is also of import that all parts of society, especially the medical community, educators, together with the full general public, larn informed nigh the hazards associated amongst exposure to EMFs together with of the steps that tin move easily taken to cut down exposure together with adventure of associated disease."
The rules that ICNIRP applies for a study to move included inward its wellness adventure assessment seem overly stringent. If other official bodies (e.g., the International Agency for Research on Cancer or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) were to adopt such rules, I suspect that really few chemicals would move classified equally toxins or carcinogens. By its ain admission, ICNIRP is non concerned nigh protecting beast or flora life from the adverse effects of EMF exposure, together with it is arguable that they are genuinely concerned nigh protecting humans.
If the claims of some EMF scientists together with scientific organizations (e.g., the European Cancer together with Environment Research Institute together with the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) are truthful that ICNIRP’s members together with scientific advisors are selected because they are biased toward industry, together with then it is fruitless to engage inward ICNIRP’s populace consultation procedure (see my posts from May 1 through June 27, 2017.)
Since the credibility of ICNIRP depends heavily upon its association amongst the WHO, a to a greater extent than fruitful activity for the EMF scientific community mightiness move to convince the WHO together with governments non to rely on ICNIRP for EMF guidelines together with no longer consult ICNIRP’s advisors.
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Summaries from ICNIRP’s Draft Appendix B: Health Risk Assessment Literature
“ICNIRP bases its guidelines on substantiated adverse wellness effects. This makes the departure betwixt a biological together with an adverse wellness number an of import distinction, where alone adverse wellness effects require limits for the protection of humans.” (p. 2)
Brain electrical activity together with cognitive function
“In summary, in that location is no substantiated experimental or epidemiological prove that exposure to radiofrequency EMF affects higher cognitive functions relevant to health.” (p. 3)
Symptoms together with wellbeing
“In summary, no reports of adverse effects on symptoms together with wellbeing lead maintain been substantiated, except for pain, which is related to elevated temperature at high exposure levels. Thresholds for these lead maintain non been clearly identified, but the best guess is inside the vicinity of 10 together with twenty mA for indirect contact currents, for children together with adults respectively, together with 12.5 kW m-2 for direct millimeter-wave exposure.” (pp. 3-4)
Other encephalon physiology together with related functions
“In summary, in that location is no prove of effects of radiofrequency EMF on physiological processes or oculus pathology that impair wellness inward humans. Some prove of superficial oculus harm has been shown inward rabbits at exposures of at to the lowest degree 1.4 kW m-2, although the relevance of this to humans has non been demonstrated.“ (p. 4)
Auditory, vestibular together with ocular function
“In summary, no effects on auditory, vestibular, or ocular component relevant to human wellness lead maintain been substantiated.” (p. 5)
Neuroendocrine system
“In summary, the lowest flat at which an number of radiofrequency EMF on the neuroendocrine scheme has been observed is 4 W kg-1 (in rodents together with primates), but in that location is no prove that this translates to humans or is relevant to human health. No other effects lead maintain been substantiated.” (p. 6)
Neurodegenerative diseases
“In summary, no adverse effects on neurodegenerative diseases lead maintain been substantiated.” (p. 6)
Cardiovascular system, autonomic nervous scheme together with thermoregulation
“In summary, no effects on the cardiovascular system, autonomic nervous system, or thermoregulation that compromise wellness lead maintain been substantiated for exposures amongst whole torso average SARs below about 1 W kg-1, together with in that location is some prove that 4 W kg-1 is non sufficient to alter torso essence temperature inward hamsters. However, in that location is rigid prove that whole torso exposures inward rats that are sufficient to increment torso essence temperature past times several degrees centigrade tin drive serious adverse wellness effects inward rats.” (p. 7)
Immune scheme together with haematology
“The few human studies lead maintain non indicated whatever prove that radiofrequency EMF affects wellness inward humans via the immune scheme or haematology.” (p. 7)
Fertility, reproduction together with childhood development
“In summary, no adverse effects of radiofrequency EMF exposure on fertility, reproduction or evolution relevant to human wellness lead maintain been substantiated.” (p. 8)
Cancer
“In summary, no effects of radiofrequency EMF on cancer lead maintain been substantiated.” (pp. 8-9)
International EMF Expert Group to Counter ICNIRP
June 19, 2017
International EMF Expert Group to Counter ICNIRP
ECERI Newsletter. No. 6, June 2017
"Following a recent coming together amongst WHO representatives inward Geneva, members of this ECERI grouping lead maintain decided to issue their ain information inward the cast of a scientific consensus paper on the effects of non-thermal EMFs on behalf of the ECERI. Finally, since several ECERI scientists believe that environmental pollution may inward fact move a drive of cancer together with other diseases such equally Alzheimer affliction together with autism, ECERI has proposed to create some other international grouping comprising scientists together with jurists to utter over the possibility that intentional massive pollution could move recognized past times the International Criminal Court (ICC) equally a truthful criminal offense against health. This proposal volition move discussed at the side past times side ECERI Executive Committee together with General Assembly inward Brussels.
Following the coming together amongst WHO inward Geneva on March, the 3rd, it was proposed to create an ECERI-related working grouping to oppose ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection), that mightiness move termed “International committee of scientific expertise on non-thermal radiations effects (ICSENTRE). The members of this grouping thus far are: Dominique Belpomme (France), Igor Belyaev (Slovakia), Ernesto Burgio (Italy), David Carpenter (USA), Lennart Hardell (Sweden), Magda Havas (Canada), SMJ Mortazavi (Iran), André Vander Vorst (Belgium) together with Gérard Ledoigt (France). If you lot wishing to bring together this group, delight contact Christine Campagnac (sg.eceri@gmail.com)."
ECERI – European Cancer together with Environment Research Institute, Square de Meeus 38-40, 1000 Brussels; Tél :0032 24 01 87 75 or 0033 1.45.78.53.52 sg.eceri@gmail.com
