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| California Department of Public Health issued cell telephone warnings on 12/13/2017. |
For links to related word coverage see:
California’s Cell Phone Safety Guidance: Media Coverage
Jan 4, 2018
Dec 13, 2017 (Updated Dec 14, 2017)
A side-by-side comparing of the jail electrochemical cell telephone security guidance published yesteryear CDPH inwards December, 2017 with the master copy draft prepared inwards June, 2009 tin last 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 Earth nearly wellness risks from exposure to jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations too provides tips on how to trim back exposure.
This document originally prepared inwards 2009 yesteryear wellness professionals inside the CDPH Division of Environmental too Occupational Disease Control underwent numerous revisions but was never published yesteryear 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 inwards a police force conform filed under the California Public Records Act yesteryear the Environmental Law Clinic at UC Berkeley Law too the First Amendment Project.
To comply with the courtroom order, CDPH released 27 versions of the document too reimbursed legal expenses. The most recent draft, dated January, 2015, contained a bold watermark, "Draft too Not for Public Release" too 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 inwards Sacramento exterior of CDPH to telephone yell upwards for Earth release of the jail electrochemical cell telephone warning document.
The security recommendations inwards the document released today yesteryear CDPH are similar to those issued yesteryear the Connecticut Department of Public Health inwards May, 2015.
The document that CDPH published today understates the wellness risks from long-term exposure to jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations because the preponderance of the enquiry finds that jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations poses a major gamble 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 with Earth if the Department were to discover the wellness risks from jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations exposure.
The Federal Communications Commission, the way responsible for regulating jail electrochemical cell phones, relies on industry-generated guidance that is 2 decades old. More than 230 scientists who convey published peer-reviewed enquiry on electromagnetic fields too wellness convey signed a petition calling on all nations to adopt stronger regulations too disclosure to Earth nearly the wellness risks of electromagnetic fields.
The Federal Communications Commission, the way responsible for regulating jail electrochemical cell phones, relies on industry-generated guidance that is 2 decades old. More than 230 scientists who convey published peer-reviewed enquiry on electromagnetic fields too wellness convey signed a petition calling on all nations to adopt stronger regulations too disclosure to Earth nearly the wellness risks of electromagnetic fields.
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| Excerpt from jail electrochemical cell telephone warning document issued yesteryear 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 inwards Sacramento, jail electrochemical cell telephone security advocates Ellie Marks, Cindy Franklin, too Toni Stein denounce the California Department of Public Health's refusal to release to Earth its ain cell telephone security advisory.
They likewise explicate how the bill, SB 649, straight off moving through the legislature--and similar bills beingness pushed inwards states around the country--would eliminate whatever local authorisation over jail electrochemical cell tower placement too outcome inwards toxic antennas lining every block leaving Earth with no legal recourse.
June 19, 2017
What prevents CDPH from adopting the jail electrochemical cell telephone guidance document?
Following my successful world records lawsuit against the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), reporters convey posed 2 cardinal questions:
(1) “Why did the State of California suppress the CDPH jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations security guidance document (aka "fact sheet") from 2009 to 2015?”
(2) “Why won’t the State adopt the fact canvas straight off since the evidence is much stronger for jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations wellness risks?”
Unfortunately, the documents that the Department released due to the Court ruling hit non respond these questions.
My interviews with cardinal informants advise that it was due to suppression yesteryear “political appointees.” Opposition to releasing the document came from inside the Department too from at to the lowest degree i other way inside the province government.
In October, 2009, the CDPH conducted a webinar on electromagnetic land (EMF) exposures too wellness effects which may shed some calorie-free on the motivation for suppressing the fact sheet. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 presentation was made yesteryear the erstwhile main of the CDPH Division of Occupational too Environmental Health, the sectionalisation that prepared the jail electrochemical cell telephone guidance document before that year.
Although Raymond Neutra, MD, MPH, DrPH, had retired from CDPH 2 years earlier, equally the erstwhile main of the CDPH EMF Program, he was asked to acquaint the reasons for precaution regarding jail electrochemical cell telephone use. He served on scientific advisory boards for the National Institutes of Health too the World Health Organization too was considered an international practiced inwards electromagnetic fields too health.
Dr. Neutra posed the next question, “How for sure must nosotros last of how much ill-health from jail electrochemical cell phones, cordless phones too 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 electrochemical cell telephone off most of the time
• Use ear slice or speaker function
• Place on tabular array 3 feet away before turning on
• Write downward telephone messages
• Return calls, too thence plow off
• Keep it off inwards autobus when others mightiness last exposed
Next, he addressed the reasons why authorities requires to a greater extent than certainty before recommending precaution:
• Industry lawyers too lobbyists afraid that precautionary authorities recommendations
will back upwards tort police force suits
• Industry afraid that “alarmed” citizens volition force for more
• Lobbyists pressure level authorities non to number them
I would struggle that although nosotros straight off convey substantially to a greater extent than evidence that jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations is harmful, the telecommunication too wireless industries convey much greater political too economical ability at the province too Federal level. Moreover, manufacture motivation to suppress precautionary policies is probable equally strong equally ever.
Thus, nosotros should non last surprised that governments neglect to furnish Earth with precautionary recommendations nearly jail electrochemical cell telephone use. Nor should nosotros surprised that wireless radiations regulations convey non been updated since 1996.
The slides for Dr. Neutra’s 2009 presentation tin last downloaded from http://bit.ly/neutra2009.
In January, 2010, Dr. Neutra appeared inwards a one-minute world service announcement, "Cell Phones: Teens inwards the driver's seat," in which he provides precautionary wellness advice to adolescents nearly how to usage cellphones to a greater extent than safely. He stated inwards the film:
June 1, 2017
In January, 2010, Dr. Neutra appeared inwards a one-minute world service announcement, "Cell Phones: Teens inwards the driver's seat," in which he provides precautionary wellness advice to adolescents nearly how to usage cellphones to a greater extent than safely. He stated inwards the film:
"We're starting to acquire some evidence that the electrical too magnetic fields from jail electrochemical cell phones tin displace encephalon cancer, touching on sperm count too displace other wellness problems."
June 1, 2017
Melody Gutierrez."New records present how province reworked surreptitious jail electrochemical cell telephone warnings,"
San Francisco Chronicle, May 19, 2017 (published online first) http://bit.ly/CDPHsfchron
In March, the San Francisco Chronicle was the outset paper to report on a lawsuit we filed against the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to obtain a jail electrochemical cell telephone security guidance document that was never released to Earth (Moskowitz v CDPH).
The Chronicle also published an editorial in March encouraging the province to release this jail electrochemical cell telephone security information to the public,
In May, the Chronicle reported the outcome of our case. CDPH released 27 versions of a jail electrochemical cell telephone security "fact sheet" originally created inwards 2009 too updated through 2014. The documents were released to us inwards compliance with a courtroom order.
"Newly released world records present that California world wellness officials worked for 5 years on a laid of guidelines to warn Earth nearly the potential dangers of jail electrochemical cell phones, revising their piece of employment 27 times with updated enquiry before abandoning the efforts without always making their concerns world until ordered yesteryear a judge."
CDPH refused the Chronicle's public tape asking just equally it previously denied our world tape requests:
"The Chronicle submitted a world records asking to the wellness subdivision inwards March, asking for emails or documents related to why the jail electrochemical cell telephone guidelines were never approved to last made world — too to come across whether in that location was whatever exterior influence. The subdivision refused to release records, proverb those that existed were protected yesteryear attorney-client privilege."
In reply to a asking for an interview, CDPH issued a written disceptation to the Chronicle which indicated that the Department however does non scream back to adopt too distribute to Earth its jail electrochemical cell telephone security guidelines:
"The disceptation from the California Department of Public Health said in that location 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 electrochemical cell telephone radiations security fact canvas prepared yesteryear the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) initially inwards 2009 too revised multiple times through January, 2015.
The State has never adopted this fact canvas nor released it to Earth due to suppression yesteryear “political appointees” according to my sources.
The recommendations inwards the in conclusion version of the fact canvas are sound. CDPH should adopt too disseminate the fact canvas now. The world has a correct to know the information that the Department’s wellness professionals convey been trying to portion with them since 2009. I farther recommend that the fact canvas last updated annually consistent with the latest research.
The fact canvas is based upon reviews of the enquiry conducted yesteryear the CDPH Division of Environmental too Occupational Disease Control betwixt 2009 too 2014.
The master copy document reflected a consensus of the Division (Document 25, file date: 6/17/2009; pp.104-109). The fact canvas summarized enquiry on the wellness effects associated with exposure to jail electrochemical cell telephone too cordless telephone radiation. It provided recommendations to the California Department of General Services, the “business manager” for the State, regarding jail electrochemical cell telephone purchases. The fact canvas likewise included security tips for province employees too the full general public, peculiarly children, nearly security usage of phones to minimize exposure to wireless radiation.
The final version of the fact sheet omits recommendations to the Department of General Services too does non hash out cordless phones (Document 1, file appointment 1/26/2015; pp. 6-8).
In 2014, I submitted 3 requests to the CDPH nether the California Public Records Act for this information. All 3 requests were denied.
In 2016, the UC Berkeley School of Law Environmental Law Clinic too the First Amendment Project filed a lawsuit on my behalf inwards the Sacramento Superior Court.
On May 12 of this year, the Attorney General’s business office mailed us 27 documents to comply with the March thirteen courtroom ruling.
The instance 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 canvas (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 electrochemical cell telephone usage guidance document without superimposed markings.
This jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations security document, originally prepared inwards 2010 yesteryear wellness professionals inwards the CDPH Environmental Health Investigations Branch, has been suppressed yesteryear political appointees over the years.
On March 13, Judge Shelleyanne Chang re-issued the tentative ruling she made prior to the hearing:
This jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations security document, originally prepared inwards 2010 yesteryear wellness professionals inwards the CDPH Environmental Health Investigations Branch, has been suppressed yesteryear 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 in conclusion ruling:
On March 2, prior to the judge's ruling, CDPH emailed a version of the cell telephone usage guidance document, entitled "Cell Phones too Health," to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who attended the courtroom hearing. CDPH had defaced this version with large markings indicating "Draft too Not for Public Release."
The approximate did non consider the document a "preliminary draft" because the document was maintained yesteryear CDPH staff since 2010, too the heart of the document changed little over time despite multiple updates yesteryear staff.
The courtroom order, dated March 13, 2017, is labeled "Ruling on Submitted Matter too Order: Petition for Writ of Mandate too Complaint for Declarative Relief."
The ruling tin last downloaded from http://bit.ly/MvCDPHfinal.
The ruling tin last downloaded from http://bit.ly/MvCDPHfinal.
The unaltered jail electrochemical cell telephone usage guidance document volition last available hither when the CDPH complies with the Court order.
March 4, 2017
"Warnings on Cell Phone Use"
aka "State kept surreptitious guidelines on jail electrochemical cell telephone use"
Photos from the San Francisco Chronicle front page too the Editorial seem below along with links to word coverage of this story.
March 2, 2017 (Updated 10:10 PM)
Last May nosotros sued the California Department of Public Health for a jail electrochemical cell telephone security guidance document nether the California Public Records Act. The document was originally prepared inwards 2010 too 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 too Health," to Melody Gutierrez, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who attended our courtroom hearing.
This "fact sheet" summarizes enquiry on jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations wellness risks too provides security tips on how to trim back jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations exposure. The document highlights a potentially greater gamble to "pregnant women, children, too teens." The security recommendations are similar to those issued yesteryear the Connecticut Department of Public Health inwards May, 2015.
We are grateful to come across CDPH’s jail electrochemical 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" too "Draft too Not for Public Release."
Apparently, CDPH does non scream back to appeal the merits of the court's ruling that the document must last disclosed. However, the fashion of release is troubling. CDPH has non waited for the courtroom to finalize its ruling too determine whether CDPH may betoken that the document does non (as it argued at the hearing) correspond its current, official position. Rather, the way has "jumped the gun" too stamped novel lettering inwards huge nighttime letters across the aspect upwards of the document thence equally to acquire inwards virtually illegible. Further, that lettering states that the document is “draft too non for world release” when the judge's tentative ruling stated precisely the reverse -- that the document was not a draft, too must last publicly released.
CDPH has essentially created a novel document rather than produced the document as-is, inwards violation of the Public Records Act. To the extent that CDPH wanted only to betoken that the document does non correspond its official topographic point inwards early on 2017, the fact that the document is dated “April 2014” should brand that plain.
An draw of piece of employment concern human relationship of our attempts to obtain the document too the lawsuit filed yesteryear the UC Berkeley Environmental Law Clinic too 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 electrochemical cell telephone radiations security document since 2010?
In 2010, wellness professionals inwards the Environmental Health Investigations Branch of CDPH prepared a jail electrochemical cell telephone guidance document that summarized the scientific discipline regarding the wellness risks from jail electrochemical cell telephone radiations too provided precautionary recommendations to Earth for limiting personal exposure.
Why was this document never officially released to the public?
I learned nearly the existence of the document inwards 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 too Occupational Disease Control inwards CDPH, contacted me 3 days later. He informed me that the document was lately revised too was nether review yesteryear the State. He asked me to take my asking since the in conclusion approved version should last available inside 3 weeks. When I asked how long the document had been nether review, he responded that the review was "freshly re-started this year," too that the electrical flow draft is similar to a previous version "that stalled 3 years ago" piece nether review yesteryear the State. I opted non to take my request.
In April, 2014, I spoke to the Deputy Director for Legislative too Governmental Affairs at CDPH. She informed me that the document was nether review yesteryear a "state way outside" of CDPH. She implied that the document had cleared CDPH's blessing procedure too promised to furnish me with periodic updates regarding its status.
In June, 2014, since no i contacted me and the document had non been released, I submitted a 2d asking nether the CPRA. The CDPH denied this asking arguing that they are exempt from disclosing “preliminary drafts,” too that Earth involvement inwards nondisclosure exceeded Earth involvement inwards 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 in conclusion CPRA asking was submitted inwards January, 2015. CDPH denied this asking too provided a novel rationale: “In calorie-free of the updated guidance issued yesteryear the CDC [federal Centers for Disease Prevention too Control] inwards June of 2014, CDPH has chosen non to number a guidance document on radio frequency EMF too jail electrochemical cell phones.”
After my in conclusion rejection, I interviewed several CDPH wellness professionals who were familiar with the jail electrochemical cell telephone guidance document. All idea the document should convey been published yesteryear 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 electrochemical cell telephone guidance document. The environmental police force hospital at the University of California, Berkeley Law School too the First Amendment Project are representing me pro bono. In May, 2016, nosotros filed a lawsuit inwards the Superior Court of the County of Sacramento. The instance was assigned to Judge Shellyanne Chang.
CDPH asserted that “[t]he public’s wellness may last harmed” simply yesteryear release of the Document (Starr Decl., ¶ 19(a)) ... that the memo “will needlessly confuse, too perhaps alarm, jail electrochemical cell telephone users” (id., ¶ 24; same); too fifty-fifty speculates that release of the Document volition displace both those with and without cancer to overflowing physicians’ offices to ventilate hysterical fright of jail electrochemical cell phones (Id. at ¶ 27).
In its opposition brief, CDPH confuses Earth too individual interests inwards withholding the document, suggesting that Earth involvement inwards receiving advice nearly security jail electrochemical cell telephone usage must last discounted “[because] a portion of the public, namely the wireless manufacture too jail electrochemical cell telephone manufacturers . . . probable convey no involvement inwards the dissemination of the jail electrochemical 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 inwards which she over-ruled viii of the ix objections submitted yesteryear the Attorney General on behalf of the CDPH. The tentative ruling granted our petition too 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 in conclusion ruling on the case.
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