Facts and Figures on Microwave Radiation & the Human Body

Below is a list of rising concerns by a team of international scientists studying the impact of electromagnetic radiation (EMF) on the human body (microwave radiation emitted by cell towers is a form of EMF). The team includes University at Albany Professor. Dr. David Carpenter.  Also below is a list of what the New York City Board of Education, the New York State Regents and European countries are doing to protect children from the microwave radiation emitted by cell towers. 

What do these educators and scientist know and understand that the
Bethlehem Central School District Board of Education doesn't?

 THE FACTS:

• France has banned the use of cell phone for 5th graders and under;

• Sweden researchers just conluded that cell phone radiation will cause a 400% increase in brain cancers;

• Germany has placed strict limits on the distance between schools and cell towers;

• England has documented cancer clusters near cell towers and British citizens are pushing to ban them near schools;
  

• Microwave radiation emitted from cell towers is more powerful than that from cell phones. locating them near and on school property exposes children to constant streams of pulsating electromagnetic radiation; and
  

• Cell phone industry is about to roll-out 4G technology that will dramatically increase the microwave radiation emitted from cell towers. The risk to our children's health and school staff is dangerously real.

• Dr. Reba Goodman, PhD at Columbia University reports that, “Cells in the body react to EMFs as potentially harmful, just like to other environmental toxins including heavy metals and toxic chemicals. The DNA in living cells recognizes electromagnetic fields at very low levels of exposure, and produces a biochemical stress response.”

• Brain tumor specialist Dr. Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD works as both an oncologist and a researcher at Orebro University Hospital in Sweden. He is an expert on cell phones and brain tumors. “The evidence for risks from prolonged cell phone and cordless phone use is quite strong. For people who have used these devices for 10 years or longer, and when they are used mainly on one side of the head, the risk of malignant brain tumor is doubled for adults and is even higher for persons with first use before the age of 20 years.”

• Cindy Sage of Sage Associates says, "Prolonged exposure to radiofrequency and microwave radiation from cell phones, cordless phones, cell towers, WI-FI and other wireless technologies has been linked to interference with short-term memory and concentration, sleep disruption, headache and dizziness, fatigue, immune disruption, skin rashes and changes in cardiac function."
  

MORE FACTS:

• The New York City Board of Education, in 2003, issued a policy decision not to allow cellular towers on its more than 1,100 school buildings due to safety concerns;

• The New York State Board of Regents adopted rules in 1994 on the construction of school building in enviromentally safe communities.  It now appears that cell tower plans would dismantle the policy by bringing microwave radiation to the schools; and
  

• The FCC standards on safe levels of exposure to microwave radiation were established by cell phone executives appointed to high levels of the federal government in the 90's. Since then these government policy-makers have returned to high salaried jobs in the cell phone industry.

• David O. Carpenter, MD and Director of the University of Albany, Institute of Health and the Environment concludes, “The existing FCC and international limits do not do enough to protect people, especially children, from daily exposures to electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation. These effects are now widely reported to occur at exposure levels significantly below most current national and international limits.”
  
  

• An international working group of scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals (The BioInitiative Working Group) has released its report on electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health. They document serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating how much EMF is allowable from power lines, cell phones, cell towers and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life.
  
  The report concludes the existing standards for public safety are inadequate to protect public health (view it here).