"Canary in a Gold Mine" comes to Hollywood - 11 November 2023

"Canary in a Gold Mine" comes to Hollywood - California premiere on 11 November - play/movie about electrohypersensitivity to be presented by the Piti Theatre Co. followed by a discussion including Brenda Martinez of Children's Health Defense and an electrosensitive building biologist, Michael Schwaebe.

Comp ticket requests: https://www.skiptownplayhouse.com/screeningschedule

Why There Should Be No More Discussion about “Appropriate” Screen Time for Infants, Toddlers, and Children

Why There Should Be No More Discussion about “Appropriate” Screen Time for Infants, Toddlers, and Children
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International Image courtesy Floris Freshman. Nov. 7, 2023

As a consumer culture, we do not debate the “appropriate level of exposure” for smoking, alcohol, gambling, pornography, guns, driving, or drug paraphernalia for infants, toddlers, and young children. A product or practice is either safe, or not safe, in childhood.

Previously, although often belatedly, society has met the responsibility to protect children from risks of harm, especially from addictive substances.

For example, the 2020 story of the five-year old from Utah who drove his family’s car onto the interstate was reported with a reminder to keep car keys away from children.

Now, perhaps nowhere in modern society is lack of discernment more damaging than in the blind acceptance of cell phones, tablets, screens, and wireless device use by children. We need to fix this, not only for children, but to reclaim reason in ourselves.

The Phonegate Alert SAR Calculator (bêta test version)

The Phonegate Alert SAR Calculator (bêta test version)
Phonegate Alert, November 2023

The Alerte Phonegate teams have set up this calculator (bêta test version) to allow you to know, in an indicative manner, the real specific absorption rate (SAR) of your mobile phone.

This calculation was made using a large amount of data that we have obliged mobile telephony regulatory agencies to make public, as well as the most up-to-date scientific knowledge bases on the subject.

It comes from five years of work by our NGO.

A color code comes with the results:
• if a value is displayed in GREEN, it means that it complies with the standards of the concerned country.
• if a value is displayed in RED, it means that the manufacturer’s SAR does not correspond to the reality of your exposure when your smartphone is close to your body or head. You will find below a summary table recalling the SAR limits not to be exceeded.

To launch the calculator, all you have to do is to enter the SAR measurements indicated by the manufacturer of your mobile phone (which you can find on the instructions or on the online documentation corresponding to your device), as well as your geographical area.

Access to calculator / continue reading:
https://phonegatealert.org/en/resources/sar-calculator/

Aerotoxic Syndrome: The Scientific Controversy

The Grey Area That Never Benefits The Victims
Aviation's "Wounded Canaries" or Aerotoxic syndrome: The Scientific Controversy
by BEARNAIRDINE BEAUMONT,

Take-Off: Aviation's Wounded Canaries, NOV 8, 2023

Is aerotoxic syndrome a new occupational disease? Described more than twenty years ago based on symptoms and disorders reported to doctors by numerous pilots and flight attendants, it is not recognized as such. It is still the subject of scientific controversy. This is "a denial", says Eric BAILET, a former pilot who founded the Association of Victims of Aerotoxic Syndrome (AVSA) in 2016. “Pilots are poisoned by the air they breathe on board aircraft," he explains. The pressurization system used on virtually all commercial aircraft today was adopted in 1955. Almost immediately, undesirable effects on crews were reported and the cause was established: the air supplied was taken from the engine compressors and contaminated by leaking lubricating oil. When heated to high temperatures, these oils can release dangerous compounds, including neurotoxic organophosphates.

Justice Recognizes the Reality of Aerotoxic Syndrome

Sick Pilots: Justice recognizes the Reality of Aerotoxic Syndrome
by BEARNAIRDINE BEAUMONT - Take-Off: Aviation's Wounded Canaries
NOV 2, 2023

image source © FL360aero

As first reported by MEDIAPART France, on October 20, 2023, the Bordeaux Judicial Court recognized the causal link between this illness and occupational exposure, for yet another affected pilot. The judge relied in particular on the medical expertise of the head of the occupational and environmental pathologies department at Nantes University Hospital, according to whom the disorders reported by the pilot "are part of an ‘Aerotoxic Syndrome’ caused by the short- and long-term effects of exposure to oil-fumes-contaminated air in aircraft cabins.

However, as previously mentioned in other articles of mine don't look for ‘Aerotoxic Syndrome‘ in the international occupational disease classification tables (ICD-10): it is still not/not yet listed there. You can find my articles on the subject on my Academia.edu website here and here. The term Aerotoxic Syndrome (AS) was coined in 1999 and described as a medical condition by three scientists from France, the USA, and Australia who had independently of each other come to the same conclusions and then networked and put their findings together. AS is a collection of very diverse symptoms reported by aircrews who have been victims of cabin and cockpit air contamination events which are commonly referred to as "fume events".

Canada: Toronto District School Board Reviewing Cell Tower Radiation Concerns at North York High School

TDSB reviewing cell tower radiation concerns at North York high school
by Kevin Connor, Toronto Sun, 5 Nov. 2023

More than a dozen teachers at a North York high school refused to go to work last week over concerns their school is close to a cellphone tower that may emit radiation.

The concerns are over emissions from numerous network antennas on a cell tower located just off school property near William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute – northeast of Sheppard Ave. W. and Dufferin St.

(Photo): The TDSB is reviewing cellphone tower radiation concerns at William Lyon Mackenzie C.I. in North York after a group of teachers refused to go to work last week.© Provided by Toronto Sun

The teachers have the support from health groups.

“When 18 educators take job action because of workplace safety, they are also standing up for our students, who are more vulnerable,” Shelley Wright, director of Canadian Educators for Safe Technology, said in a statement.

Effect of Mobile Phones on Sperm Quality - Review Papers

Effect of Mobile Phones on Sperm Quality
saferemr.com, 1st November 2023

Diagram representing various sources of RF EMF exposure effect on brain and testicular organ and deleterious outcomes (Kesari, Agarwal & Henkel, 2018)

Review Papers posted on site of Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Family and Community Health
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley

Link: https://www.saferemr.com/2015/09/effect-of-mobile-phones-on-sperm.html

Diagram representing various sources of RF EMF exposure effect on brain and testicular organ and deleterious outcomes (Kesari, Agarwal & Henkel, 2018)

Doctors, Lawyers, and Scientists Join Together in International Children's Declaration for the Digital Age

Doctors, lawyers, and scientific researchers are invited to join as Signatories to the Declaration.
Educators, parents, and child advocates are encouraged to sign as supporters.

Link: International Declaration on the Human Rights of Children in the Digital Age

Doctors, Lawyers, and Scientists Join Together in International Children's Declaration for the Digital Age

NEWS PROVIDED BY Americans for Responsible Technology
01 Nov, 2023

Three Fundamental Rights of Children Are Affirmed Regarding Digital Technology

NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- An international group of leading lawyers, physicians, physicists, epidemiologists and other children's health experts have today announced their support for a new International Declaration intended to raise public awareness of three fundamental rights of children which are not adequately being protected: the right to be free from addictive platforms and apps; the right to be free from hazardous radiation from wireless devices; and the right to be free from commercial exploitation of private information.

Children have a fundamental human right to be free from addiction, exposure and exploitation in the digital world.Post this

Children around the world are suffering from digital addiction, radiation exposure and commercial exploitation.

France: List of cell phones withdrawn or updated for deception and endangering users (update 20 October 2023)

List of cell phones withdrawn or updated for deception and endangering users
By : Phonegate Team • 20 Oct 2023

There are now 45 models of cell phones, identified as dangerous to the health of users, which have been either withdrawn from the French market or have seen their Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) updated by software. The latest: the DOOGEE S88, the EMPORIA simplicity V27, the Iphone 12, the Motorola Edge, the Essential Clap 20+ (you have until June 30, 2023 to bring it back to Boulanger), the Xiaomi Poco X3 and the Logicom Le Swipe.

DOOGEE S88 and EMPORIA simplicity V27 withdrawn from the French market and recalled

The list of phones at risk from regulatory non-compliance continues to grow. In a press release published on October 19, 2023, the Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) has just pinpointed two new smartphones for exceeding specific absorption rate (SAR) levels in the limbs.

On reading the test reports for the two cell phones (DOOGEE S88, EMPORIA simplicity V27), our NGO notes once again that the agency waited some ten months before publicly informing users. More problematically, as with the iPhone 12, the tests carried out by the German laboratory Cetecom Advanced do not reveal the said overruns.

Why not? The ANFR, which we contacted, has still not replied…

According to the ANFR press release, the SAR of the DOOGEE S88 and EMPORIA simplicity V27 was measured at 4.23 W/kg, compared with the regulatory limit of 4 W/kg. This led the agency to make the following decisions:

“ANFR enjoins EMPORIA and DOOGEE to implement all available means to rapidly remedy this malfunction on equipment on the market as well as those already marketed. Distributors must also cease marketing their products.”

Continue reading:
https://phonegatealert.org/en/list-of-mobile-phones-with-non-compliant-sars-removed-or-updated-in-france-2/

Mobile phone use may affect semen quality

News of this new study from the University of Geneva is being picked up by the global mainstream media.

Mobile phone use may affect semen quality

Press Release, University of Geneva, 1st November 2023

A team from the UNIGE and Swiss TPH has published a large study covering more than a decade of data on the effects of mobile phones on semen quality of young men.

© Rita Rahban. Sample of human spermatozoa.

Does electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones affect semen quality? While various environmental and lifestyle factors have been proposed to explain the decline in semen quality observed over the last fifty years, the role of mobile phones has yet to be demonstrated. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration  with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), has published a major cross-sectional study on the subject. It shows that frequent use of mobile phones is associated with a lower sperm concentration and total sperm count. However, researchers did not find any association between mobile phone use and low sperm motility and morphology. Read the results in Fertility & Sterility.