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Home My WebLink About20082016.tiff Contact: infoObioinitiative.orq Cindy Sage Tel: 805-969-0557 Renowned Scientists Issue Wake-up Call on EMF State University of New York at Albany/August 30 /An international working group of renowned scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals (The Biolnitiative Working Group) has released its report on electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and health. It raises serious concerns about the safety of existing public limits that regulate how much EMF is allowable from power lines and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life. The report documents scientific evidence raising worries about health impacts including childhood leukemia (from power lines and other electrical exposures). There is evidence that EMFs are a risk factor for both childhood and adult cancers. EMFs from electric power lines are linked to increased risks for childhood leukemia and may set the stage for adult cancers later in life. The Biolnitiative Report (www.bioinitiative.orq) to be released on Friday, August 31, 2007 documents the scientific evidence that power line EMF exposure is responsible for hundreds of new cases of childhood leukemia every year in the United States and around the world. Public health expert and co-editor of the Report Dr. David O. Carpenter, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany, New York states: This report stands as a wake-up call that long-term exposure to some kinds of EMFs may cause serious health effects. Good public health planning is needed now to prevent cancers and neurological diseases linked to exposure to power lines and other sources of EMFs. We need to educate the public and our decision makers that business as usual is unacceptable. Co-editor Cindy Sage of Sage Associates asserts: Public health and EMF policy experts have now given their opinion of the weight of evidence. The existing FCC and international limits for public and occupational exposure to EMFs and RF radiation are not protective of public health. New public safety limits and limits on further deployment of risky technologies are warranted based on the total weight of evidence. List of Biolnitiative Participants Organizing Committee Members Carl F. Blackman*, Ph.D. Founder, Former President and Full Member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society Raleigh, NC USA Employer - US Environmental Protection Agency Martin Blank, PhD Associate Professor Former President and Full Member of Bioelectromagnetics Society Dept. of Physiology. College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University, New York, NY USA 2008-2016 6 wtavvo 7-a/-a0O? /1/9163 Prof. Michael Kundi, PhD Full Member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society Institute of Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria Cindy Sage, MA, Owner Full Member. Bioelectromagnetics Society Sage Associates Santa Barbara, CA USA Participants David O. Carpenter, MD Director, Institute for Health and the Environment University at Albany East Campus Rensselaer, NY USA Zoreh Davanipour. DVM, PhD Friends Research Institute Los Angeles, CA USA David Gee Coordinator Emerging Issues and Scientific Liaison Strategic Knowledge and Innovation European Environmental Agency Copenhagen, Denmark Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD, Prof. Department of Oncology University Hospital Orebro, Sweden Olle Johansson, PhD, Associate Professor The Experimental Dermatology Unit. Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden Henry Lai, PhD Department of Bioengineering University of Washington Seattle, Washington USA Kjell Hansson Mild, PhD, Prof. Former President and Full Member of Bioelectromagnetics Society Board Member, European Bioelectromagnetics Society (EBEA) Umea University, Department of Radiation Physics Umea, Sweden Amy Sage, Research Associate Sage Associates Santa Barbara, CA USA Eugene L. Sobel, PhD Friends Research Institute Los Angeles, CA USA Zhengping Xu, PhD Guangdi Chen, PhD Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine Hangzhou . People's Republic of China Reviewers (partial) James B. Burch, PhD Arnold School of Public Health University of South Carolina Columbia, SC USA Nancy Evans, BS Health Science Consultant San Francisco, CA USA Stanton Glanz, PhD University of California, San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education Cardiovascular Research Institute, Institute for Health Policy Studies San Francisco, CA USA Denis Henshaw, PhD Professor of Physics Human Radiation Effects Group Wills Physics Laboratory Bristol University, Bristol, UK Samuel Milham, MD Washington State Department of Health (retired) Olympia, Washington Louis Slesin, PhD Microwave News New York, NY USA Hello