{"id":1328,"date":"2015-05-13T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T17:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2015-05-30T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T14:03:23","slug":"international-scientists-appeal-to-u-n-to-protect-humans-and-wildlife-from-electromagnetic-fields-and-wireless-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"International Scientists Appeal to U.N. to Protect Humans and Wildlife from Electromagnetic Fields and Wireless Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHO\u2019s conflicting stance on risk needs strengthening, says 190 scientists<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

New York, NY, May 11, 2015. <\/strong>Today 190 scientists from 39 nations submitted an appeal (click here to read document<\/a>)\u00a0to the United Nations,UN member states and the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting they adopt more protective exposure guidelines for electromagnetic fields (EMF)and wireless technology in the face of increasing evidence of risk. These exposures are a rapidly growing form of environmental pollution worldwide.<\/p>\n

The \u201cInternational EMF Scientist Appeal\u201d <\/em><\/strong>asks the Secretary General and UN affiliated bodies to encourage precautionary measures, to limit EMFexposures, and to educate the public about health risks, particularly to children and pregnant women.<\/p>\n

The Appeal <\/em><\/strong>highlights WHO\u2019s conflicting positions about EMF risk. WHO\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified Radiofrequencyradiation as a Group 2B \u201cPossible Carcinogen\u201d in 2011, and Extremely Low Frequency fields in 2001. Nonetheless, WHO continues to ignore its own agency\u2019s recommendations and favors guidelines recommended by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). Theseguidelines, developed by a self-selected group of industry insiders, have long been criticized as non-protective.<\/p>\n

The Appeal <\/em><\/strong>calls on the UN to strengthen its advisories on EMF risk for humans and to assess the potential impact on wildlife and other living organismsunder the auspices of the UN Environmental Programme, in line with the science demonstrating risk, thereby resolving this inconsistency.<\/p>\n

Martin Blank, PhD, of Columbia University, says, \u201cInternational exposure guidelines for electromagnetic fields must be strengthened to reflect the realityof their impact on our bodies, especially on our DNA. The time to deal with the harmful biological and health effects is long overdue. We must reduceexposure by establishing more protective guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joel Moskowitz, PhD, of University of California, Berkeley, says, \u201cICNIRP guidelines set exposure standards for high-intensity, short-term, tissue-heatingthresholds. These do not protect us from the low-intensity, chronic exposures common today. Scientists signing the Appeal <\/em><\/strong>request that the UN andmember nations protect the global human population and wildlife from EMF exposures.\u201d<\/p>\n

International EMF Scientist Appeal<\/em>: \u00a0<\/strong>EMFscientist.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Video Statement (3 min.) by Spokesperson Martin Blank, PhD<\/em>: \u00a0EMFscientist.org<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Kelley, MA, Director\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joel Moskowitz, PhD <\/strong>EMFscientist.org\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0School of Public Health, UC Berkeley info@EMFscientist.org <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0jmm@berkeley.edu<\/a> 1-510-643-7314<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO\u2019s conflicting stance on risk needs strengthening, says 190 scientists New York, NY, May 11, 2015. Today 190 scientists from 39 nations submitted an appeal (click here to read document)\u00a0to the United Nations,UN member states and the World Health Organization (WHO) requesting they adopt more protective exposure guidelines for electromagnetic fields (EMF)and wireless technology in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aj5x-lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}