Canada: Apple and Samsung Phones in the Dock

CANADA: Apple and Samsung phones in the dock

by Karim Benessaieh, La Presse, 11 November 2022 (auto-translation)

Seven Quebecers who accuse Apple and Samsung phones of emitting "toxic" waves, and their manufacturers of cheating during certification tests, partially won their case on September 22: the Superior Court authorized their class action.

THOMAS PETER PHOTO, REUTERS ARCHIVES
Seven Quebec plaintiffs filed a class-action lawsuit in March 2019 claiming that Apple and Samsung phones emit more radiation than the accepted North American standard of 1.6 watts per kilogram.

Judge Christian Immer, however, significantly reduced their claims. He dismissed numerous accusations, including some he called "patently unfounded, untenable and frivolous," to bring the case down to a few central issues. Does cell phone radiation pose a risk when these devices are held very close to the body? Are manufacturers sufficiently informing their customers about these risks? Should they then pay punitive damages?

United States: Microwave Injured Veterans Network

Microwave Injured Veterans Network 

https://www.microwavedvets.com/news

Microwave Injured Veterans Network (MIVN) focuses on helping veterans to better communicate their injury to primary care providers. According to Pew research there are around 20 million veterans living in the U.S. Those veterans that are sensitive to microwave radiation due to their injury unfortunately have to be aware of the amount of microwave radiation around and inside of their residence and workspaces. While most people never think about these devices as harmful microwave injured veterans have to consider removing WiFi from their homes and not living inside of the radiation lobule of a cellular tower or small cell facility. We believe that these veterans have a right to accommodation without shame or ridicule.

United States: How the FCC Shields Cellphone Companies From Safety Concerns: Investigative Report

Thank you to the Environmental Health Trust for this news.

Link to the ProPublica report:

https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-5g-wireless-safety-cellphones-risk

JUST PUBLISHED! Investigative Report on the US Government and Wireless Radiation

Breaking News: ProPublica just published a major investigation into how the FCC is shielding wireless companies' issues regarding health, safety and the environment!    In the report, investigative journalist and senior reporter Peter Elkind covers everything from the Pittsfield Massachusetts Board of Health Order regarding the Verizon Cell Tower, the National Toxicology Program animal study finding cancer and DNA damage and how the U.S. FCC human exposure limits for cell phones, cell towers and wireless radiation are decades out of date.   Elkind interviews numerous experts, including those who used to work at the FCC and US government agencies, all of whom are cautioning that the science has linked exposure to harmful effects and safety is not assured.    “We’re really in the middle of a paradigm shift,” said Linda Birnbaum, who was director of the National Toxicology Program until 2019. It’s no longer right to assume cellphones are safe, she said. “Protective policy is needed today. We really don’t need more science to know that we should be reducing exposures.”   The article features the Environmental Health Trust et al. lawsuit against the FCC which found that "the FCC had failed to meet “even the low threshold of reasoned analysis” in finding that its limits “adequately protect against the harmful effects of exposure to radiofrequency radiation unrelated to cancer.”    The article also highlights EHT's database on international policy action and the Wyoming Governor Marc Gordon's letter to the FCC calling for "immediate action as directed by the courts to review the research and update any policies as necessary for the health and wellbeing of all citizens, including the most vulnerable, our children."  READ THE PROPUBLICA INVESTIGATION

Peter Elkind, senior reporter at ProPublica, is an award-winning investigative journalist. Elkind is co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron and he has written for The New York Times Magazine, newyorker.com, and The Washington Post, was an associate editor at Texas Monthly, and is a former editor of the Dallas Observer.   Elkind's work for Fortune, where he was a writer for twenty years, includes such in-depth pieces as "The trouble with Steve Jobs," about how the CEO of Apple concealed his bout with pancreatic cancer.

Italy: He fell ill with cancer due to the use of his cell phone: INAIL sentenced to pay an annuity to the worker

Many Italian media have published the news, delving more deeply into the recent Turin judgement.

He fell ill with cancer due to the use of his cell phone: Inail sentenced to pay an annuity to the worker
by Sarah Martinenghi, torino.repubblica.it/, 5 Nov. 2022 - auto-translation

For 13 years he used the phone on average 2.5 hours a day for work purposes. When the former technician discovered he was suffering from a benign ear tumor, he asked INAIL to be granted an occupational disease pension. The Turin Court of Appeal proved him right

He used his cell phone for at least two and a half hours every day for 13 years. And now the INAIL has also been sentenced on appeal to grant him a professional disability pension for falling ill with acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor affecting a nerve in the ear.

Six Italian Courts Have Ruled that Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors

We are re-posting this article, in view of the latest Italian court ruling concerning compensation of a victim of an intracranial tumor of the acoustic neuroma linked to the use of cell phones.

Six Italian Courts Have Ruled that Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors
By Martine Vriens and Dafna Tachover, published by hildrenshealthdefense.org, 21 January 2020

[Note: This article has been adapted and updated, with permission, from an earlier article published on May 29, 2019 by We Are the Evidence.]

On January 13, 2020, Turin’s Court of Appeals confirmed a 2017 decision determining that a former Telecom Italia worker’s acoustic neuroma (a benign tumor in the ear) was caused by his mobile phone use. This is the sixth time that an Italian court has affirmed a causal link between cell phone use and brain tumors, including decisions by the High Court of Italy.

The Appellate court reached its decision after a review of the evidence and after receiving the opinion of two court-appointed experts. The experts referred the court to studies indicating that individuals who speak on their phones for an average of 30 minutes a day for at least 10 years increase their risk of developing head tumors. After considering this evidence, the Appellate court in Turin stated, “There are solid elements to affirm a causal role between the exposure of the person to radiofrequencies from mobile phones and the disease that arose.”

Italy: Tumor and cell phone: the Court of Appeal of Turin indemnifies an employee

Tumor and cell phone: the Court of Appeal of Turin indemnifies an employee
By : Phonegate Team • 7 Nov 2022

In a judgment dated November 2, 2022, the Court of Appeal of Turin confirmed the decision of the first instance, condemning INAIL [Instituto nazionale Assicurazione Infortuni sul Lavoro – National Institute for Work Accident Insurance] to compensate the victim of an intracranial tumor of the acoustic neuroma linked to the use of cell phones.

2H30 per day on his cell phone for 13 years

The victim is a man, 63 years old and now retired, who worked as a specialized technician for a company in the Valle d’Aosta. Between 1995 and 2008 he used his cell phone (on ETACS and then GSM) for more than 10,000 hours (from 10,361 to 13,687) – an average of 2.5 hours per day.

Cellular and Cancer: The Industry Loses a Worried Ally

Cellular and cancer: the industry loses a worried ally
by André Fauteux, La Maison du 21e Siècle, November 3, 2022 (Google translation)

American researcher 
emeritus James C. Lin

One of the most renowned scientists on the biological effects of radio frequency (RF) radiation used by cellular technologies, Dr. James C. Lin, says that the latest studies "give consistent indications that exposure to RF is probably carcinogenic to humans”.

A pioneer in electromedicine and professor emeritus of electrical engineering and biophysics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Lin is the past president of the prestigious Bioelectromagnetics Society, present in 40 countries. He is also a distinguished former member of the two organizations that created RF exposure limits, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Like several experts, today he disputes the validity of these limits based on the assumption that only the heating of tissues by RF would be dangerous.

New Challenge to ICNIRP - Dissident Scientists Seek Tighter Health Limits - Will They Succeed Where Others Failed?

Microwave News writes about the new International Commission on the Biological Effects of EMF (ICBE-EMF). Among its 11 principals or Commissioners are Henry Lai and Ronald Melnick of the U.S., Igor Belyaev of Slovakia and Suleyman Dasdag of Turkey (full list below). Moskowitz is one of the new panel’s eight “special experts,” as are Sweden’s Lennart Hardell and Wenjun Sun of China.

New Challenge to ICNIRP - 

Dissident Scientists Seek Tighter Health Limits
Will They Succeed Where Others Failed?

microwavenews.com, 1st Nov. 2022

An international group of research scientists has come together to challenge ICNIRP, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.

The new panel wants a complete revision of ICNIRP’s guidelines for exposures to radiofrequency (RF) radiation. The researchers are demanding the adoption of more scientifically rigorous standards, which better protect public health and the environment.

“We are calling for an independent evaluation of the limits,” Joel Moskowitz of Berkeley Public Health, an arm of the University of California, told Microwave News. This needs to be done, he said, because ICNIRP’s guidelines are “based on smoke and mirrors.”

Continue reading:
https://microwavenews.com/news-center/new-challenge-icnirp

Children's Health Defense Seeks Plaintiffs for Lawsuits Challenging WiFi in Schools, and Cell Towers and Small Cells in Neighborhoods

CHD Seeks Plaintiffs for Lawsuits Challenging WiFi in Schools, and Cell Towers and Small Cells in Neighborhoods

Childrens' Health Defense, 1st Nov. 2022

Children’s Health Defense is seeking plaintiffs for lawsuits challenging WiFi in schools, and cell towers and small cells in residential areas in an effort to protect children and other vulnerable populations from harmful levels of radiofrequency radiation exposure.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is seeking plaintiffs for lawsuits challenging WiFi in schools, and cell towers and small cells in residential neighborhoods.

Our litigation efforts aim to protect children and other vulnerable populations, including pregnant women and those suffering from electromagnetic sensitivity (EMS), from harmful levels of radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure.

Carcinogenesis from Chronic Exposure to Radio-Frequency Radiation: New Paper by Dr. James C. Lin

Carcinogenesis from chronic exposure to radio-frequency radiation
Dr. James C. Lin, Front. Public Health, Sec. Radiation and Health. 31 October 2022. 

doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1042478

Open access paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1042478/full

Dr. James C. Lin, one of the world's most renowned scientists who has studied the effects of radio frequency (RF) radiation, and a distinguished former member of the two organizations that created the RF exposure limits, the International Commission on Nonionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), challenges the validity of these safety limits.

He concludes in his latest peer-reviewed paper:

"The simple and effective public health notion of 'An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure' may conjure up old fashioned. It may arouse intense reactions, with enormous defiance especially from individuals who may be beneficiary of modern promotions. The cellphone and allied wireless communication technologies have shown their direct benefit to people in modern society. However, as for their impact on the radiation health and safety of humans who are subjected unnecessarily to various levels of RF exposure over prolonged durations or even over their lifetime, the jury is still out. Furthermore, there are consistent indications from epidemiological studies and animal investigations that RF exposure is, at least, probably carcinogenic to humans. The principle of ALARA—as low as reasonably achievable—ought to be adopted as a strategy for RF health and safety protection."