Reports symptoms associated with wireless environments while acknowledging uncertain causation, and propo…

Re: Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397 I submit this as an individual consumer, patient, parent, and family member. It is based on personal experience and precautionary public-health concerns. Questions 2–4 — Personal Experience Exposure to Wi-Fi routers, phones, cell towers, Bluetooth devices, and environments with substantial wireless activity appears to coincide with recurring symptoms for me: ringing in my ears, tingling in my hands and body, headaches, brain fog, difficulty concentrating, chronic fatigue, poor sleep, and inflammation-related symptoms. I am also concerned about possible oxidative stress. My symptoms become more noticeable around wireless devices and higher-exposure environments. Reducing exposure and using wired connections are important to me. Personal testimony does not establish causation, but experiences like mine should be documented and investigated rather than dismissed. Questions 5–8 — Standards and Measurement In my view, current U.S. limits are far too high and emphasize acute heating rather than possible nonthermal, chronic, and cumulative effects. HHS should evaluate pulsing, modulation, peak and average power density, nighttime exposure, proximity, simultaneous frequencies, and lifetime exposure. My requested precautionary ceiling for chronic ambient wireless exposure is below 0.0001 milliwatts per square meter (0.1 microwatts per square meter), with exposure kept as close to zero as reasonably possible. This corresponds with the Building Biology SBM-2015 “no anomaly” category for RF radiation in sleeping areas. Other proposals include the BioInitiative Working Group’s 3–6 µW/m² target and the Seletun Scientific Panel’s 170 µW/m² proposal. Though different, each is substantially below prevailing U.S. limits. HHS should examine international research and disclose funding sources and industry conflicts. Testing one device alone does not represent real life. People may be exposed simultaneously to phones, Wi-Fi, towers, Bluetooth, smart meters, wearables, and neighboring transmitters. HHS should standardize long-term measurements in bedrooms, classrooms, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Questions 9–11 — Disclosure and Vulnerable Groups Consumers should receive clear information about emissions, cumulative exposure, wired alternatives, and disabling wireless functions. HHS should establish adverse-event reporting, environmental monitoring, longitudinal studies, and symptom registries. Children, pregnant women, older adults, people with medical conditions or implanted devices, exposed workers, and people reporting electromagnetic sensitivity require greater protection. Questions 12–15 — Technology, Infrastructure, and Environment HHS should investigate reported effects below federal limits involving sleep, cognition, neurological symptoms, tinnitus, fatigue, inflammation, oxidative stress, reproduction, and long-term health. 5G, 6G, Wi-Fi, satellites, Bluetooth, wearables, smart appliances, wireless medical devices, and smart meters should be studied as a combined exposure environment. Research should also examine possible effects on livestock, wildlife, pollinators, plants, soil biology, and ecosystems. Cell towers and small-cell antennas should not be placed near homes, schools, childcare centers, workplaces, or healthcare facilities without assessing cumulative exposure and effects on residents and animals. Questions 16–18 — Research and Policy Federal priorities should include independent long-term research into nonthermal effects, cumulative and childhood exposure, electromagnetic sensitivity, oxidative stress, neurological effects, sleep disruption, and wired alternatives. Research should be conducted independently of telecommunications-industry influence. I would vote to phase out and disable wireless communications and replace them with wired connections wherever technically possible. I support fiber-optic internet, wired Ethernet, wired telephones, wired school networks, and hardwired utility meters. I would not support expanding Wi-Fi, 5G, 6G, smart-city transmitters, wireless appliances, wearables, or similar systems. Homes, schools, workplaces, healthcare facilities, and public buildings should provide wired service by default, and wireless transmitters should be capable of being completely disabled. No one should be forced to accept continuous wireless exposure to access education, employment, healthcare, housing, transportation, or public life. The below-0.0001 mW/m² ceiling should be a backstop for unavoidable exposure, not authorization to expand wireless infrastructure. Scientific uncertainty should lead to independent investigation, extremely low precautionary limits, full disclosure, and wired alternatives. Thank you for considering my experience and recommendations. Kyle Bennett