ICNIRP Revamp: Closer Ties to WHO EMF Project

ICNIRP Revamp: Closer Ties to WHO EMF Project

Seven New Commissioners
Akimasa Hirata To Be New Leader

microwavenews.com, 11 Dec. 2023

In November, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) elected a new chair, vice chair and seven new Commissioners to join the remaining five. The new lineup takes over in mid-July 2024.

Yet, despite all the changes, ICNIRP’s outlook and policies are expected to remain much the same. While two medical doctors will be joining the Commission —there are none now— the membership will continue to be dominated by physicists and electrical engineers. ICNIRP’s entrenched thermal dogma will most likely continue to hold sway with cancer risks, and other non-thermal effects downplayed, when not dismissed outright.

Akimasa Hirata, a professor of electrical engineering at Japan’s Nagoya Institute of Technology, will be the next chairman. He has been on the Commission since 2016. Hirata replaces Australia’s Rodney Croft, a psychologist, who leaves after 12 years, the last four as ICNIRP chair. Hirata is the first person from Japan —or any other Asian country— to lead the Commission.

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