USA's FCC Classified that Mobile Phones Exceed Limit Values

USA's NKOM classified that mobile phones exceed limit values
by Einar Flydal, steigan.no, 8 May 2024 - deepl translation

This table shows that several mobile phone models, including Apple X5 and Samsung Galaxy S9 and J3, emit more radiation than permitted, sometimes far more, even based on the industry's irresponsibly lax limit values.

But what's worse is that the FCC, the US communications regulator equivalent to NKOM in Norway, classified the information.

Instead, of course, mobile phones should have been called out and customers notified.

It is the information that the organization Environmental Health Trust (EHTrust), led by cancer specialist Devra Davis, has obtained through the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). She has a research background dating back to the fight against lung cancer, was part of Al Gore's team when he won the Nobel Prize, and has been a public health advisor to Bill Clinton.


This case is the big scandal in the industry right now. After all, how can we trust governments that classify information that should be made public and that should have consequences?

The affair actually began several years ago, after the French organization Phonegate Alert, led by physician Marc Arazi, discovered similar secrecy with results from French test laboratories. He then began to take action. The organization now exists in several countries.

400 models are now said to have been called out due to excessive radiation after Phonegate Alert was launched. It attracted the most attention when the French authorities demanded that Apple recall all Apple 12s because they emit too much radiation. It was only days before Apple upgraded all Apple 12s, but only in France, so that the radiation level was reduced. (More about that case here: blog post 15.09.2023.)

Apple 12 in Norway and all later models can therefore be expected to radiate more powerfully than permitted - without the authorities caring. (Phonegate Alert is now demanding that Apple 12 must be withdrawn from the entire European market.)

Some of the controversy in this case revolves around how it should be measured: When the industry tests, they measure at a distance of about 20 mm from the phone. This makes the radiation significantly lower than it actually is:

Phonegate Alert and many others believe that, of course, you have to measure with the phone as close as possible to the skin, i.e. at a distance of 2 mm. After all, that's how people use their phones - in front and back trouser pockets, in their bras, on their upper arms when they exercise, or when they hold their phone up to their ear where the skull has a hole that prevents it from attenuating the radiation to the brain and also comes right up to the salivary gland. This results in significantly higher radiation levels.

DNA damage leading to cancer and a number of other effects from mobile radiation have been well documented in countless studies - so thoroughly, in fact, that the industry no longer denies the effects, but simply tries to spread uncertainty about them.

But the industry is sticking to the current limit values, and is lobbying for them to be relaxed in various ways. The 20 mm distance for test measurements works just like that. Remember that the intensity of the radiation is far stronger in the near field, and drops by half outside it every time the distance is doubled.

What's more, the current limit values have been set after assessing the risk of heating, while there are completely different mechanisms that create DNA damage, and they work even at weaker exposures that do not heat up at all. So it's not enough for mobile phones to stay below the limit values, but it's a good start and an obvious minimum requirement.

The fact that cancer starts close to where you usually keep your phone is an observation with which oncologists like Devra Davis are well acquainted. Surgeons who operate for brain cancer also understand this.

Studies also show an increase in such cancers among quite young adults. But such cancers have a long lead time and affect relatively few people, so even if they do increase, the effects will only become clearly visible after several decades, i.e. continue to increase in the years to come. After all, it's only been around 15 years since smartphones really took off, with mobile data, WiFi and Bluetooth always switched on in most people's homes.

So it's not just because mobile phones are detrimental to teaching and social interaction and make us less able to concentrate that they should be taken out of school and out of our pockets, even though that's what we find most about in the Norwegian media at the moment.

Einar Flydal, 7 May 2024

Reference

PRESS RELEASE – ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRUST REVEALS CONCEALED FCC CELL PHONE TESTS SHOWING HUMAN RADIATION ‘EXPOSURE LIMITS WERE EXCEEDED’, EHTrust, WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2024, 

https://ehtrust.org/environmental-health-trust-foia-project/

Original article in Norwegian:
https://steigan.no/2024/05/usas-nkom-hemmeligstemplet-at-mobiler-sprenger-grenseverdiene/