United States: Apple Dodges IPhone Radiation Class Action Suit

Apple Dodges IPhone Radiation Class Action Suit
by MARIA DINZEO, courthousenews.com, 29 October 2020

Link to the "Order on Motion for Summary Judgment" of 29 October 2020:

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cohen-v.-Apple-ruling.pdf

(CN) — A federal judge Thursday nixed a class action claiming Apple failed to warn consumers about dangerous radiation from iPhones, finding it has twice demonstrated that its smartphones comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s radiation exposure limits.

Impelled by a Chicago Tribune article indicting iPhone and Galaxy smartphones for surpassing federal safety limits, lead plaintiff Andrew Cohen sued cellphone makers Apple and Samsung in August 2019. Samsung was voluntarily dismissed as a defendant in the case in January.

Children's Health Defense Press Conference: Response Brief Filed in Landmark Case Against FCC

Press Conference: Response Brief Filed in Landmark Case Against FCC

By Children's Health Defense Team, 22 October 2020 

(Press Conference available for viewing in CHD  article)

Children’s Health Defense filed its response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) brief on Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The case against the FCC is challenging the agency’s refusal to review its 25-year-old obsolete wireless “health guidelines” and to adopt scientific, biologically-based radio frequency emissions rules that adequately protect public health.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for EHS: Proceedings from a Symposium on Impacts of Wireless Technology on Health (Proceedings from a May 31st, 2019 Symposium)

Clinical Practice Guidelines for EHS: Proceedings from a Symposium on Impacts of Wireless Technology on Health (Proceedings from a May 31st, 2019 Symposium) - open access

The document is the published proceedings from a symposium for medical doctors on the subject of wireless technology and EHS held at the Environmental Health Clinic at Women's College Hospital (Toronto) in 2019.

The publication is entitled 'Clinical Practice Guidelines for EHS - Proceedings from a Symposium on the Impacts of Wireless Technology on Health': Under categories of 'Science,' 'Clinical,' and 'Policy & Advocacy', the 137-page publication includes papers from:

* Riina Bray MD;
* Anthony Miller, PhD;
* Magda Havas, PhD;
* Meg Sears, PhD;
* Jennifer Armstrong, MD;
* Barbara Payne;
* David Fancy, PhD;
* Shelley Wright
* Frank Clegg;
* Robert Steller;
* Melissa Chalmers.

Open access report (137 page PDF): http://bit.ly/EHSsymposium

United States: FCC Still Ignores Wireless Harms, 5G Critics Tell DC Circ.

FCC Still Ignores Wireless Harms, 5G Critics Tell DC Circ.
By Kelcee Griffis,Law360, 21 October 2020

Law360 (October 21, 2020, 4:15 PM EDT) -- The Federal Communications Commission backfilled its reasoning for last year's decision not to toughen its wireless exposure limits, two groups have told the D.C. Circuit, saying the agency based its decision on the "unsubstantiated" opinions of some health and safety organizations.

Children's Health Defense and the Environmental Health Trust, which have filed a lawsuit to force the FCC to revisit the decision, wrote Monday that the FCC employed "post-hoc rationalization and wrongly cites to extra-record documents, some of which did not even exist at the time of the order."

In the order at issue, the FCC revisited its radiofrequency exposure limits and found that the current regulations are among the strictest worldwide, making them still effective in protecting people from harmful wireless transmissions as the telecom industry switches to 5G service.

Phonegate Denmark : First Withdrawal of a Smartphone (Razer Phone 2) and Intervention of the Health Authorities

Phonegate Denmark : first withdrawal of a smartphone (Razer Phone 2) and intervention of the health authorities
Equipe Phonegate 23 Oct 2020

We are pleased to share with you this important news at the European level. The Danish health authorities have officially considered that users should be informed of the risk to human health and safety posed by the radiation from their cell phones exceeding the regulatory exposure values.

“Excerpt from the position of the Danish Health Authority

Razer Phone 2

“The Danish Health and Medicines Authority has become aware that the use of a specific mobile phone, which from November 2018 has been marketed in Denmark, especially in the gaming environment, can lead to exceeding the limit value. These are mobile phones of the type Razer Phone 2. We therefore encourage users of the phone not to use the mobile phone in question. We also refer to the Danish Health and Medicines Authority’s current recommendations for the use of mobile phones.”
https://www.sst.dk/da/Viden/Straaling/Straaling-i-hverdagen/Mobiltelefoni-og-traadloes-teknologi/Mobiltelefoner

United States: Response Brief Filed in Landmark Case Against FCC on 5G and Wireless Health Impacts

Includes link to Petitioners' joint reply brief to FCC (Environmental Health Trust and Children's Health Defense)

Response Brief Filed in Landmark Case Against FCC on 5G and Wireless Health Impacts
Children's Health Defense, 20 October 2020

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WASHINGTON, DC, October 20, 2020—Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the children’s health advocacy group headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., filed its response to the Federal Communications Commission’s brief on Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

CHD’s case against the FCC is challenging the agency’s refusal to review its 25-year-old obsolete wireless “health guidelines” and to adopt scientific, biologically-based radio frequency emissions rules that adequately protect public health. CHD is represented by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Scott W. McCollough. The brief was filed jointly with Environmental Health Trust.

The response brief is a response to the FCC brief that was filed on September 22nd. CHD’s principal brief was filed on August 14, 2020.

Continue reading:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/press-release/response-brief-filed-in-landmark-case-against-fcc-on-5g-and-wireless-health-impacts/

Switzerland: Open letter to the Swiss Federal Council on increase in limit values

Open letter to the Swiss Federal Council on increase in limit values addressed by the association "Protection against Radiation" and other organizations

https://schutz-vor-strahlung.ch/, 30 September 2020 - translation

Mrs. Simonetta Sommaruga

President of the Swiss Confederation

Bern

Federal Councilors 

30 September 2020

Thank you for your reply to our letter of 15 July 2020. We are very pleased that the Federal Council has decided not to relax the limits, and that the great skepticism in many parts of the population is taken seriously. This shows us that the protection of the people in our country is an important concern.

But we are all the more surprised that the Federal Council - according to Sonntagsblick of 13 and 20 September 2020 - wants to introduce a "facilitation factor" for adaptive antennas, which is highly  controversial. Because in reality, such a "facilitation factor" is a massive increase in the limit values.

With this factor, the operators get permission to transmit with much more power than they are allowed via the approved building permit. With conventional antennas, radiation exposure should still never exceed the limits, but in the vicinity of adaptive antennas, exceeding the limits can be expected with certainty.

France : In the Midst of Phonegate: the “Smoke and Mirrors” Announcements of Cédric O

In the midst of Phonegate: the “smoke and mirrors” announcements of Cédric O
Equipe Phonegate, 14 octobre 2020

Should cell phone users and people living near base stations be reassured by the announcements made by the Secretary of State for the Digital Transition and Electronic Communications, concerning among others, digital technology and 5G? Our answer is clearly NO!

Indeed, we see it as a mere communication campaign to try to reassure our fellow citizens, who are more and more numerous, to no longer trust the sincerity of the public authorities regarding the health risks linked to mobile phone radiation.

As a reminder, in October 2019, following the release of the report by ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environment and Occupation Health & Safety), “Mobile phones worn close to the body and health”, the Government had announced a number of measures in a press release. None of the most important ones has been followed up!

Switzerland: Flood of Initiatives: 5G Opponents Interfere with One Another

Switzerland: FLOOD OF INITIATIVES: 5G opponents interfere with one another
by Gian Signorell, Beobachter, no. 21, 9 October 2020 - translation

5G opponents cannot agree on a common approach. Experts warn that they are wasting their energies in this way.

Demonstration against 5G in Geneva in
January 2020
Image: Martial Trezzini / Keystone

"The time is ripe, now we have to get started," says Peter Schlegel, board member of the environmental organization Frequencia. He speaks of collecting signatures for the Safer-Phone mobile communications initiative. The referendum aims to better protect the population from electrosmog and, in particular, from cell phone radiation.

The central element of the initiative is a new supply concept: interiors are to be accessed via cables. The providers are obliged to expand the fiber optic network into all buildings. This means that cell phone waves no longer have to penetrate thick walls. The antenna power could therefore be reduced and the radiation exposure lowered.

Speaking Out on Electrosensitivity as 5G Expands

Speaking Out on Electrosensitivity as 5G Expands

publicnewsservice.org, 9 October2020

Thousands of 5G cell service antennae are 
popping up on light poles across the nation,
prompting health concerns among some.
(Noah Davidson), 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- As the march to install superfast 5G wireless service continues across the country, advocates for patients with electro-sensitivity are questioning the technology's safety.

Noah Davidson of Sacramento began lobbying to have 5G antennas moved away from people's homes and offices because his five- and seven-year-old nieces got sick for two months straight, right after Verizon installed a 5G box on a light pole next to their home.

The family hired an expert to measure the radio-frequency levels.

"He conducted some measurements and told us it was the highest indoor measurements that he'd ever recorded," Davidson claimed. "So, we ended up installing some shielding in the home, moving the kids into a back room. And within a few days, their symptoms went away."

FCC Lawsuit Update: The FCC Fails to Protect the Public

FCC LAWSUIT UPDATE: THE FCC FAILS TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC
ehtrust.org, 5 October 2020

EHT is hard at work responding to the FCC reply to the EHT et al., v. FCC legal appeal.

On September 22, 2020, the FCC filed their reply brief to our joint brief. READ IT HERE.

As expected, the FCC reply is filled with misinformation, downplaying the scientific evidence that clealy shows harm.

Listen to Devra Davis PhD MPH, President of EHT discuss the FCC response in a video interview with Theodora Scarato below. In the video we review the FCC reply brief piece by piece. It is a must watch!

The FCC reply brief to EHT, CDH and petitioners can be downloaded HERE. 

FCC Lawsuit Update: FCC Says The Science Hasn't Changed in 24 Years!
(25 September 2020 - 54 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2TlWBbjTV0&feature=emb_logo

READ ALL THE DETAILS OF THE FCC LAWSUIT HERE

https://ehtrust.org/fcc-lawsuit-update-the-fcc-fails-to-protect-the-public/

Hematoencephalic barrier and cerebral hypoxia: pathophysiological mechanism of the effects of electromagnetic fields in electrohypersensitive people

Hematoencephalic barrier and cerebral hypoxia: pathophysiological mechanism of the effects of electromagnetic fields in electrohypersensitive people

by Jacques Lintermans, Doctor of Science and André Vander Vorst, Professor Emeritus UC Louvain - translation

It has been known for decades that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and in particular to microwave EMF can cause the opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The blood-brain barrier filters and controls the passage of substances in the bloodstream and prevents them from passing freely from the blood to the cerebrospinal fluid. It thus isolates the central nervous system from the rest of the body and allows it to have a specific environment, different from the internal environment of the rest of the body. A malfunctioning barrier allows hydrophilic molecules to enter the brain tissue that would normally be excluded, with the formation of edema and ischemia (1).

5G concerns - supporting letter from Prof. Olle Johansson addressed to the House of Commons, United Kingdom

5G concerns - supporting letter from Olle Johansson (shared from EMF Aware Sussex)

posted on Facebook, 1st October 2020

Dear Subscribers
We thought we would share with you an excellent response Professor Olle Johansson has submitted to an MP on behalf of one of our subscribers. Please feel free to share... Best wishes, EMF Aware Sussex
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House of Commons
Westminster
London
SW1A 0AA
UK

Dear Honourable Sir,

The subject of my letter: The serious truth about wireless 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G needs to be urgently heeded - before the rollout of 5G results in an increase in the permitted levels of electromagnetic microwave radiation in the UK.