World Health Organization, radiofrequency radiations too health
- a difficult nut to scissure (Review)
Today the International Journal of Oncology published a critique of the World Health Organization's pending review of the adverse wellness effects of wireless (i.e., radio frequency or RF) radiation. The critique was written yesteryear Dr. Lennart Hardell, the world's preeminent researcher on encephalon tumor adventure too long-term prison theater cellphone telephone use.
His newspaper provides an historical overview of WHO's EMF Project, WHO's human relationship to the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), too the relationships of both organizations to the armed services too electrical too telecom industries.
Dr. Hardell notes that the WHO has relied heavily on members of ICNIRP, a non-governmental scheme "with serious conflict of interest." In their reviews of the scientific evidence for adverse wellness effects from wireless radiations exposure, ICNIRP dismisses the evidence for biological effects due to non-thermal exposures. By focusing entirely on short-term heating effects too ignoring the effects of chronic exposure to non-thermal levels of RF radiation, ICNIRP has been able to adopt RF exposure guidelines well-nigh 300,000 times to a greater extent than permissive than otherwise would live required. RF exposure standards inwards many nations including the U.S. withdraw hold been heavily influenced yesteryear these guidelines.
"The ICNIRP guidelines are of huge importance to the influential telecommunications, armed services too powerfulness industries."Dr. Hardell calls upon the public, NGOs, too the scientific community "to exert line per unit of measurement area on politicians to modify the WHO agenda on RF radiations too wellness hazards too create upwards one's heed that WHO's role is to back upwards solid soil wellness instead of manufacture interests."
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Lennart Hardell. World Health Organization, radiofrequency radiations too wellness - a difficult nut to scissure (Review). International Journal of Oncology. Published online June 21, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.20
Abstract
In May 2011 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) evaluated cancer risks from radiofrequency (RF) radiation. Human epidemiological studies gave evidence of increased adventure for glioma too acoustic neuroma. RF radiations was classified equally Group 2B, a possible human carcinogen. Further epidemiological, animate existence too mechanistic studies withdraw hold strengthened the association. In spite of this, inwards most countries petty or aught has been done to trim exposure too educate people on wellness hazards from RF radiation. On the opposite ambient levels withdraw hold increased.
In 2014 the WHO launched a draft of a Monograph on RF fields too wellness for world comments. It turned out that 5 of the vi members of the Core Group inwards accuse of the draft are affiliated amongst International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), an manufacture loyal NGO, too thence withdraw hold a serious conflict of interest. Just equally yesteryear ICNIRP, evaluation of non-thermal biological effects from RF radiations are dismissed equally scientific evidence of adverse wellness effects inwards the Monograph. This has provoked many comments sent to the WHO. However, at a coming together on March 3, 2017 at the WHO Geneva role it was stated that the WHO has no intention to modify the Core Group.
Open Access Paper: http://bit.ly/WHOhardell and http://bit.ly/WHOhardellpaper
Excerpts
The exposure guideline used yesteryear many agencies was established inwards 1998 yesteryear the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) too was based entirely on established short-term thermal (heating) effects from RF radiations neglecting nonthermal biological effects (18).
Basis for limiting exposure according to ICNIRP: ‘Only established effects were used equally the solid soil for the proposed exposure restrictions. Induction of cancer from long-term EMF exposure was non considered to live established, too so these guidelines are based on short-term, immediate wellness effects such equally stimulation of peripheral nerves too muscles, shocks too burns caused yesteryear touching conducting objects, too elevated tissue temperatures resulting from absorption of unloose energy during exposure to EMF. In the instance of potential long-term effects of exposure, such equally an increased adventure of cancer, ICNIRP concluded that available information are insufficient to render a solid soil for setting exposure restrictions, although epidemiological inquiry has provided suggestive, simply unconvincing, evidence of an association betwixt possible carcinogenic effects.’
The guidelines were updated inwards 2009 simply notwithstanding do non covert cancer too other long-term or non-thermal wellness effects. ICNIRP gives the guideline 2 to 10 W/m2 for RF radiations depending on frequency, thence entirely based on a short-term immediate thermal number (19). ICNIRP is a private organisation (NGO) based inwards Germany. New goodness members tin entirely live elected yesteryear members of ICNIRP. Many of ICNIRP members withdraw hold ties to the manufacture that is dependent on the ICNIRP guidelines. The guidelines are of huge economical too strategic importance to the military, telecom/IT too powerfulness industry.
In contrast to ICNIRP, the BioInitiative Reports from 2007 too updated inwards 2012, based the evaluation also on non‑thermal wellness effects from RF radiations (20,21). The scientific benchmark for possible wellness risks was defined to live thirty to sixty μW/m2. Thus, using the significantly higher guideline yesteryear ICNIRP gives a ‘green card’ to scroll out the wireless digital engineering thereby non considering non-thermal wellness effects from RF radiation. Numerous wellness hazards are disregarded such equally cancer (8), effects on neurotransmitters too neuroprotection (22,23), blood-brain-barrier (24,25), noesis (26-29), psychological addiction (30-32), slumber (33-36), behavioral problems (37-41) too sperm character (13,42,43). No incertitude the IARC conclusion started a world-wide spinning machine to interrogation the evaluation. It was similar to the 1 launched yesteryear the tobacco manufacture when IARC was studying too evaluating passive smoking equally a carcinogen inwards the 1990s (44). Sowing confusion too manufacturing incertitude well-nigh scientific facts is a well-known strategy used yesteryear the tobacco too other industries (8,45-48).
The biophysicist Michael Repacholi from Commonwealth of Australia was the get-go chairman of ICNIRP inwards 1992. His ain inquiry inside this land is scanty, although a study on lymphoma incidence inwards mice exposed to RF radiations published inwards 1997 has attracted involvement (49). Repacholi suggested inwards 1995 that WHO should start the EMF project. This was adopted yesteryear WHO inwards 1996 ....Repacholi was during 1996-2006 the leader of the WHO subdivision of electromagnetic radiation, the WHOEMF project.
Michael Repacholi straightaway fix a unopen collaboration betwixt WHO too ICNIRP (being caput of both organizations) inviting the electric, telecom too armed services industries to meetings. He also arranged for large percentage of the WHO EMF projection to live financed yesteryear the telecommunication industry's lobbying organisations; GSM Association too Mobile Manufacturers Forum, at nowadays called Mobile & Wireless Forum (MWF) (51) inwards improver to WHO ...
Repacholi acted similar a representative for the telecom manufacture patch responsible for the EMF wellness effects subdivision at the WHO.... Since he left WHO inwards 2006 he has been involved inwards manufacture propaganda video interviews amongst GSM Association too Hydro Quebec ...
Repacholi recruited Emilie van Deventer to the WHO EMF Project inwards 2000. She is the electrical flow projection managing director at WHO for the EMF project. She has been a long fourth dimension fellow member of the manufacture dominated scheme Institute of Electrical too Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE is the world's most powerful federation of engineers. The members are or withdraw hold been employed inwards companies or organizations that are producers or users of technologies that depend on radiations frequencies, such equally powerfulness companies, the telecom too the armed services industry. IEEE has prioritized international lobbying efforts for decades especially aimed at the WHO ..
Van Deventer is an electrical engineer. She has no formal or before knowledge inwards medicine, epidemiology or biology, so it is surprising that she was selected for such an of import seat at the WHO ...
WHO radio frequency fields: Environmental wellness criteria monograph
It must live regarded to live odd too scientifically inadequate non to render for review the wellness adventure assessment too protective measures which would live most of import parts of the Monograph. Furthermore, it turned out that of the vi members inwards the WHO Core Group iv are active members of ICNIRP too 1 is a quondam member. This was published inwards 2016 (52) too also discussed to a greater extent than of late (8). Only 1 somebody seems to live independent of ICNIRP, reckon Table I. Several persons withdraw hold also affiliation(s) to other advisory groups, authorities and/or committees. Six of the twenty additional experts are affiliated amongst ICNIRP.
Being a fellow member of ICNIRP is a conflict of involvement inwards the scientific evaluation of wellness hazards from RF radiations through ties to armed services too industry. This is peculiarly truthful since the ICNIRP guidelines are of huge importance to the influential telecommunications, armed services too powerfulness industries. Another conflict of involvement is for members officially assessing possible wellness effects below their ain laid ICNIRP guidelines, which they withdraw hold already stated equally beeing safe, reckon also news inwards (52).
It should live noted that the Ethical Board at the Karolinska Institute inwards Stockholm, Sweden concluded already inwards 2008 that existence a fellow member of ICNIRP may live a conflict of involvement that should live stated officially whenever a fellow member from ICNIRP makes opinions on wellness risks from EMF (Karolinska Institute diary number: 3753-2008-609). No disputation of such conflict of involvement tin live found inwards the WHO draft of the Monograph on RF radiation.
It was stated yesteryear the WHO officials that ICNIRP is an NGO amongst an official human relationship amongst WHO that ‘helps us a lot inwards our analyses’ too their members locomote equally WHO's experts. Thus, inwards spite of 5 of vi persons inwards the Core Group for the Monograph existence affiliated amongst ICNIRP, WHO seems to withdraw hold no intention to modify these members. On the other hand, the Task Group is non finalized.
According to the coming together all experts are selected on private solid soil too non equally members of ICNIRP. Further, it was stated that the WHO guideline documents are inwards sum WHO's responsibility. It is non known when the Monograph on RF radiations volition live published. WHO notwithstanding ‘keeps looking at the evidence’ too is notwithstanding adding novel documents to the Monograph.
In the draft of the Monograph a large volume of peer-reviewed scientific publications on non-thermal effects are dismissed, c.f. equally also yesteryear ICNIRP (19). Most remarkable is that WHO has no intention to supervene upon the Core Group of experts affiliated amongst ICNIRP. Thereby ICNIRP is given sum access to too exclusive possibilities to influence the Monograph. In catch of the huge economical interests built into the ICNIRP guidelines, too several of its goodness members' ties to industry, no incertitude this is a large conflict of involvement that volition seriously undermine non entirely the credibility of the Monograph on RF radiations simply also the credibility of WHO equally a protector of solid soil health. Seriously enough, the Monograph volition live the hallmark for years to come upwards on evaluation of wellness hazards from RF radiations too pave the way for increasing exposure to RF radiations to people too environment, e.g. the 5th generation (5G), cyberspace of things, etc.
Children too adolescents may live to a greater extent than sensitive to RF radiations than adults (2). Thus equally an authoritative agency, WHO has an obligation to reference all the scientific inquiry results too telephone outcry upwards the experts from all the related fields similar engineering, wellness too medicine to engage inwards the re-evaluation of all wellness effects including non-thermal of RF radiation. Related agencies should launch an objective too transparent projection for this assessment.
Protests too comments yesteryear scientific experts too several organizations seem to live ignored. The Monograph powerfulness live political too manufacture supportive to a greater extent than than scientific too wellness promoting. For a definitive conclusion a to a greater extent than thorough review of the whole draft document would live needed. By at nowadays it is fourth dimension for laymen, NGOs too scientists to exert line per unit of measurement area on politicians to modify the WHO agenda on RF radiations too wellness hazards too create upwards one's heed that WHO's role is to back upwards solid soil wellness instead of manufacture interests. It is also fourth dimension to evaluate the competence of the persons making the evaluations too decisions before publishing the Monograph. Of note, evidence has been published (52) which indicated that members of ICNIRP withdraw hold written scientifically wrong too misleading information. It is unknown if WHO has responded to this evidence of suggested scientific misconduct.
June 19, 2017
International EMF Expert Group to Counter ICNIRP
ECERI Newsletter. No. 6, June 2017
"Following a recent coming together amongst WHO representatives inwards Geneva, members of this ECERI grouping withdraw hold decided to issue their ain information inwards the shape of a scientific consensus newspaper on the effects of non-thermal EMFs on behalf of the ECERI. Finally, since several ECERI scientists believe that environmental pollution may inwards fact live a cause of cancer too other diseases such equally Alzheimer affliction too autism, ECERI has proposed to create some other international grouping comprising scientists too jurists to hash out the possibility that intentional massive pollution could live recognized yesteryear the International Criminal Court (ICC) equally a truthful criminal offence against health. This proposal volition live discussed at the side yesteryear side ECERI Executive Committee too General Assembly inwards Brussels.
Following the coming together amongst WHO inwards 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 powerfulness live termed “International commission of scientific expertise on non-thermal radiations effects (ICSENTRE). The members of this grouping so 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) too Gérard Ledoigt (France). If yous want to bring together this group, delight contact Christine Campagnac (sg.eceri@gmail.com)."
ECERI – European Cancer too Environment Research Institute, Square de Meeus 38-40, G Brussels; Tél :0032 24 01 87 75 or 0033 1.45.78.53.52 sg.eceri@gmail.com
April 1, 2017
ECERI Meeting amongst WHO on Electromagnetic Fields
ECERI Newsletter No. 5, March 2017
"Maria Neira, Director, Public Health too the Environment Department, World Health Organisation (WHO) too Emilie van Deventer, Team Leader of the Radiation Programme at the WHO received on March the 3rd, inwards Geneva, a scientific delegation of the European Cancer too Environment Research Institute (ECERI), composed of Dominique Belpomme (F), Igor Belyaev (SKA), Ernesto Burgio (I), Christine Campagnac (F), David Carpenter (US), Tarmo Koppel (EE) too Lennart Hardell (SE) to hash out the wellness effects of EMFs.
David Carpenter introduced the talk, reminding that there are numerous significant human health hazards of concern, due to non-thermal effects of EMFs. He expressed the particular concern of the ECERI Group that a new WHO Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) document on radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMFs) is scheduled to be released in 2017, and that the members of the EHC Core Group are in denial of serious non-thermal effects of RF EMFs in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Regarding the particular vulnerability of children and their high exposure, the scientific group urges WHO to address the hazards of RF EMF.
Igor Belyaev pointed at genotoxicity induced by exposure to RF can under specific conditions of exposure (type of cells, type of signal etc) and at all other biological effects of RF (blood brain barrier, melatonin, oxidative stress, gene/protein proliferation) induced under specific conditions of non-thermal RF exposure.
In contrast to the Russian National Committee of Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, the ICNIRP safety standards do not take into account non-thermal effects and prolonged exposures, and are in evident contradiction with classification of RF as possible carcinogen, group 2B, by IARC.
Igor Belyaev delivers to Maria Neira a letter from Oleg Grigoriev, Head of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (RNCNIRP). “Based on multiple Russian studies and emerging number of studies coming from other countries, RNCNIRP has consistently warned against possible health effects from mobile communication” writes Oleg Grigoriev, requesting that WHO balances the RF working group in the evaluation of RF health effects to get more credible conclusions.
Lennart Hardell presented the results of his epidemiological studies on brain tumor risks and exposure to EMF. His data strongly suggest that RF EMF should be classified not as Group IIB, as it is presently the case, ie as possible carcinogenic, but as IIA, ie as probably carcinogenic. His studies were recently confirmed by other independent scientific group (see page 4 of the present letter).
Dominique Belpomme pres.ented the results of his study on electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Based on a series of 1,500 EHS and/or MCS cases, it was found that EHS can be objectively characterized by a battery of biomarkers reflecting oxidative stress, low grade neuro-inflammation and BBB opening.
Presently 1-10% of the investigated population in Europe is estimated to be EHS-self reporting persons. The ECERI group calls WHO to urgently accomplish its humanitarian worldwide public health mission: (1) by reexamining objectively the EHS-related health problem, independent of non- science-based external types of conflicting pressures; (2) by considering EHS and MCS as two new emerging well identified pathological disorders; (3) by including EHS and MCS in separate codes in the next version of the WHO ICD.
Ernesto Burgio pointed at the epigenetics mechanisms by which children are very vulnerable to RF EMF. EMFs (both ELF and RFR) are among the environmental factors already proven to be at the same time constantly increasing in the environment and mostly interfering on the less differentiated cells, on stem cell differentiation and on the early stages of brain development, on cell migration and synaptogenesis, and on the gametes.
This raises concerns for public health, regarding the possible effects (neurodevelopmental disorders, cancer etc.) of long-term exposure to low intensity, environmental daily life levels on the directly exposed subjects and even on the future generations. He concluded that this may impose a drastic reduction of the exposure to EMFs of pregnant women and infants.
Emilie van Deventer invited the ECERI scientific group to provide as many additional publications as possible, particularly peer-reviewed meta-analysis.
Regarding the preliminary monography released last year, she stated that the conclusions were not included given that the document was not final. She added that the Task Group was not defined yet, and that it was still possible to apply. The date for the final release of the monography is not planned yet either.
International EMF Expertise Group
Following the meeting with Maria Neira, the ECERI group defined a new strategy on EMFs for the future. The present members unanimously decided to join efforts to make non-thermal effects of EMF definitely recognized at an international level. The principle of an ECERI collective scientific publication on non-thermal effects of EMFs was agreed. This publication should be issued by June. An International EMF Expertise Group issued from ECERI is under development, aiming at publishing meta-analysis on EMFs health effects, in order to counterbalance ICNIRP’s political influence."
March 1, 2017
The chairman of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (RNCNIRP) sent a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) which criticizes the WHO working grouping on the evaluation of wellness effects from radiofrequency radiation (RFR) because the working grouping is primarily composed of yesteryear too nowadays members of ICNIRP, a "private self-selected organization."
The missive of the alphabet asserts that the working grouping "is non balanced" too does not represent the perspective of the bulk of the scientific community that studies the effects of RFR.
ICNIRP does non recognize the non-thermal effects of RFR too upholds RFR guidelines adopted inwards 1996 that entirely protect against harmful thermal effects.
"Based on multiple Russian studies too emerging number of studies coming from other countries, RNCNIRP has consistently warned against possible wellness effects from mobile communication. The dot of catch of RNCNIRP is supported yesteryear hundreds of new publications including good known recent RF studies inwards human too animals."
May 31, 2013
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking input on its radiofrequency (RF) policies. Although the WHO is applying a "risk management" framework to this issue, recent presentations yesteryear the WHO too yesteryear ICNIRP, its criterion setting body, suggest these organizations perceive RF radiations to live to a greater extent than of a world relations job than a world security issue.
How long volition the WHO (and ICNIRP) locomote on its denialist policy regarding radiofrequency bioeffects too long term wellness risks from depression intensity, microwave radiations associated amongst occupation of mobile phones too Wi-Fi? More importantly, what volition it withdraw hold to larn the WHO to covert the precautionary principle?
Announcement of International Stakeholder Seminar on Radiofrequency Policies too telephone outcry upwards for examples of goodness adventure management practices
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking the views of stakeholders too interested parties inwards the procedure of preparing an Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) monograph on radiofrequency (RF) fields. The monograph volition include a scientific review of all studied wellness outcomes too it volition render an overview of adventure management policies too practices to a greater extent than or less the world.
As percentage of the EHC process, the WHO is convening a seminar on 5 June 2013 at the French Agency for Food, Environmental too Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) inwards Paris, France. The role of the seminar is to render an chance for stakeholders to nowadays their views on specific questions to live addressed during the course of teaching of this project. The discussions at the seminar too their conclusions volition live considered carefully inwards the evolution of the WHO monograph.
http://www.who.int/peh-emf/meetings/stakeholder_announcement.pdf
RF too Health: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 WHO Perspective
Emile Van Deventer, ITU Workshop on EMF, May 9, 2013
At the ITU International Workshop on EMF inwards May 2013, Dr Emilie van Deventer from the WHO provided an overview of the WHO EMF computer program advising the EHC review procedure was already underway too was expected to live completed inwards 2015.
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/
EMF Safety Guidelines -- The ICNIRP View
Rüdiger Matthes, International Commission on Non Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), May 2013
Also at the ITU workshop, Rüdiger Matthes, Chairman of the International Commission on Non Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) presented an overview of the EMF Safety Guidelines too told delegates that the Guidelines would live reviewed next the WHO EHC.
Following are some substitution quotes from his presentation:
- "no convincing evidence from epidemiology"
- "very few epidemiological information available (no recent studies)"
- "insufficient evidence from animate existence studies"
- "still insufficient evidence for theater conclusions"
- "data are notwithstanding also limited for an appropriate adventure assessment"
- "biological effects withdraw hold non been studied real well"
- "recent high character animate existence studies consistently written report lack of an effect"
IARC Monograph Vol. 102 on ‘Non-Ionizing Radiation, Part 2: Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields Published
On the 19th Apr 2013, The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published Monograph Vol. 102 on ‘Non-Ionizing Radiation, Part 2: Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields.‘Monograph 102 - Non-Ionizing Radiation, Part 2: Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields (April 2013)
Additional Information:
- IARC Classification Announcement - On the 31st May 2011, IARC classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields equally perhaps carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased adventure for glioma, a malignant type of encephalon cancer, associated amongst wireless telephone use.
- IARC Media Release 31 May 2011
- IARC Monographs Overview
- EMF Explained - IARC Classifications Explained
(EMF Explained is a serial developed yesteryear 3 wireless manufacture associations.)
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