A delegation will be handing a copy of the BioInitiative^[1] report to 10 Downing Street at 1pm on the 12th December 2007. The delegation will be headed by Mast Sanity Trustee Yasmin Skelt. 

(The BioInitiative Report - A Review of 2000 Studies - Concluded that Public Exposure Guidelines for Emissions from Mobile Phone Masts, Wi-fi and Other Mobile/Wireless Devices are way too High to Protect Public Health)
 

Mast Sanity Trustee Yasmin Skelt says "Public health expert and co-editor of the Report Dr. David Carpenter has said "We need to educate people and our decision makers that "business as usual" is unacceptable." We are here to do that officially today.  We call on Gordon Brown to act on the information in this report.  There are now plausible mechanisms for why microwaves cause illness at levels way below the current microwave radiation (ICNIRP) guidelines^[2] which only cover heating effects." 

"The evidence is mounting up.  Cancer clusters have been noted around several Mobile Phone Masts^[3]. However it is not not just cancer we are concerned about - there is a very large range of illnesses and other adverse health effects that are linked to mobile phone technology." 

"The Swedish and German authorities have put the health of their nations ahead of profits for mobile phone companies - they are issuing warnings to reduce exposure.  Also the Mayor of Paris agreed this week to remove Wi-fi from libraries in Paris^[4] as dozens of staff suffered adverse effects from headaches to nausea. For a start, Wi-fi in schools, libraries and hospitals in the UK should be switched over to cables as soon as possible." 

"It is high time that the Prime Minister realised that our bodies are being harmed by the vast amount of microwave radiation constantly being pumped into the environment. Our bodies and our brains are in a delicate balance and need to be protected^[5]." 

"Gordon Brown should instruct the Chief Medical Officer and the Health Protection Agency to issue warnings to the public and ensure that public exposure limits are reduced immediately."

[1] The Bioinitiative Report - http://www.bioinitiative.org

Cindy Sage is a first author of the Bioinitiative review of scientific literature on EMF bioeffects, a review which concluded that the ICNIRP guidelines are inadequate to protect public health.

[2] The ICNIRP guidelines are only intended to protect the public against short term gross heating effects and NOT against 'biological' effects such as cancer and genetic damage from long term low level microwave exposure from mobile phones, their masts and many  other wireless devices. They even state this, see http://www.icnirp.de/documents/emfgdl.pdf

[3] Cancer Clusters at Phone Masts - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1687491.ece

[4] Wi-fi To be removed from libraries in Paris -  http://www.next-up.org/pdf/France2WiFiInPublicLibrariesInParisMoratorium30112007.pdf
 

[5] " The brain is an electrical organ with tremendous powers of amplification.

We should therefore not be surprised to find that it is affected adversely by weak extraneous electromagnetic fields. It is a supercomputer of unimaginable complexity with an operating voltage of less than a tenth of a volt and insulators (the cell membranes) just two molecules thick, and even these can be compromised by the radiation. It is not an electric kettle that can only be damaged by overheating."

Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy, Honorary Lecturer, Imperial College, London, UK