Subject: Wireless gadgets...miniscule rad
danger...Australia 11 08
Copy to: Prof Rodney Croft ... The Australian
Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR) rcroft@swin.edu.au
Thanks for this forward, Jill.
Unfortunately, "making sense in terms of physics,"
as well as "inaccurate, dangerous standards," and "levels in houses,"
are major reasons children (and everyone else) continue to suffer!
The "standards" are well-known to be way too low
as you and others know.
The "proof" is not levels of ambient magnetic
fields or even measurement of magnetic field at various distances from
objects such as cell phones, PDA's, monitors, but rather, "the
improvement" that occurs when amount of total exposure is reduced along
with a focus on providing distance from such items particularly
distance from beds.
Dr. Croft needs to review:
Society can not afford not to be informed they must reduce
amount of use of wireless devices as well as precautions re distance
from heads and bodies during the day but also, it is imperative that
electric appliances, telephone equipment and any item that has a
speaker in it (magnet) must not be close to sleeping persons or
animals!
Stay safe and take care! Joanne
Joanne C. Mueller
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jill
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'Miniscule' radiation danger from wireless
gadgets, says study
12:26PM Thursday Nov 06, 2008
Wireless gadgets like cordless phones and baby monitors emit
"minuscule" levels of radiation, according to an Australian study that
rules the technology safe.
Scientists tested levels of electromagnetic waves in 20 Melbourne
homes after some studies raised questions about health hazards.
"Essentially, everything was extremely low, ranging from being
about 10,000 times lower than the national standards to being 10 times
below," said lead researcher Professor Rodney Croft of the Australian
Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research.
"With such minuscule levels, it's very hard to conceive of how
there could be a problem at such low levels."
The team measured radiation emitting from various devices in the
home and found small gadgets like wireless alarms, baby monitors, PDAs,
wireless keyboards and mice had levels under one-thousandth of a per
cent of the national standard.
Wireless internet, doorbells, cordless phones and mobile phones
all came in under one per cent of the standard. [ snip ]
The average microwave oven reached just 0.65 per cent of the
standard, with the worst example recording 16 per cent.
"For the highest emitting device that's still very low, but it's
comparatively high, given we never would have thought that with
microwave ovens," Prof Croft said.
The overall levels in the house were just 0.11 per cent of the
national guidelines for safe household exposure, showing the cumulative
effect was not of concern.
"There was a concern that with cumulative exposure we were being
bombarded with electromagnetic waves but the difference between devices
turned off and turned on was quite trivial."
He said the study, partially funded by the industry body
Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association, was the first in
Australia to independently verify real exposure in homes, with the
results "making sense in terms of the physics".
"The radio frequency of these devices is designed to be as small
as possible to make it as little a burden on the battery as possible
and these results are in keeping with that."
But Melbourne occupational and environmental medicine specialist
Dr Bruce Hocking said there were too many unknowns to judge the
technology safe.
"It's true that most houses have low fields but that doesn't mean
that there aren't houses or parts of houses with higher fields that are
concerning and impact negatively on health," Dr Hocking said.
"It's too soon to call that. We still don't know."
The results will be released at a Swinburne University of
Technology forum next week.
- AAP
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wired/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501834&objectid=10541490
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