U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STATED POSITIONS AND ACTIONS ON RADIATION FROM WIRELESS DEVICES

  • Norbert Hankin of the EPA Radiation Protection Division stated,
    "Federal health and safety agencies have not yet developed policies concerning possible risk from long-term non-thermal exposures" to Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation {NIEMR}.
  • The Federal Interagency Working Group on Radiofrequency Radiation terms existing safety standards for pulsed radiofrequency radiation of the type emitted by wireless transmitters and devices "not protective of human health."
  • The FCC says it looks to the FDA to set health standards, and while the FDA is tasked with the oversight of radiological devices, the FDA acknowledges that they gave the cell phone a free pass onto the market in the early 80's without any pre- market safety testing.
  • After studies by the U.S. wireless industry in the early 90's found DNA damage from exposure (the studies were cancelled after the data turned up damaging results), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) commissioned a study on radiofrequency radiation of the type emitted by wireless transmitters and devices in 1999, but didn't start the study until 2010, and then announced no results would be available before 2014.