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The attached file is an account of the series of events that occurred after a smart meter installation on our home on November 30, 2015. Thank you for your attention to this very significant matter regarding the harms associated with non-ionizing radiation.

I am a 57-year-old European citizen (Norway) documenting how current thermal safety guidelines (ICNIRP) fail to protect individuals with compromised or hypersensitive central nervous systems due to underlying physical vulnerabilities. 1. Case History and Suspected Physical Causes Since my 20s, I suffered from frequent headaches. My family has long owned a cabin in one of the heaviest tick-infested coastal regions in Telemark, Norway, and I strongly suspect that the root cause of my broken "nerve filter" is chronic, untreated Neuroborreliosis (Lyme disease). While a hospital record from 2021 documents positive Borrelia IgG antibodies, an official neurological diagnosis is pending. I also have structural nerve vulnerability originating from a childhood fall that left my nasal bone crooked, followed by three complex sinus surgeries with substantial scar tissue. This structural trauma likely affects my right ear, which suffers from chronic pain and significant hearing loss. Because of these suspected infections and physical traumas, my nerve pathways have lost their structural insulation, creating severe central sensitization. 2. Environmental Impact and Technical Mapping In autumn 2018, a smart meter was installed in my small rented home, causing my symptoms to escalate violently overnight. This drove me to search for answers; some of the first experts I listened to were Dr. Devra Davis and Jeromy Johnson in their TED Talks, and since then, I have studied many independent researchers. Today, my body registers ambient RF/EMF microwave fields as immediate, excruciating physical pain waves. To avoid pain, I must constantly navigate life to completely bypass locations with the strongest wireless signals. I cannot hold a mobile phone without immediate, shooting nerve pain. My pain fluctuates heavily based on external signals: • The 5G Impact: The rollout of 5G signals inflicts noticeably more intense pain, and it takes several days of total isolation for my nerve tissue inflammation to recover. • Objective Technical Mapping: To verify my environment, my father—a telecommunications civil engineer—provided me with a TES-92 Electrosmog Meter and helped me systematically cable my home. Using this meter, I have measured radiation levels exceeding 1 million microwatts per square meter (1 W/m²) in ordinary public spaces, including a ferry quay, a small town center, and the waiting room at the Vestfold Hospital (SiV). This is extremely high—representing more than 10% of the maximum ICNIRP safety guidelines (which are set at 10 million microwatts/m²). Exposure to levels like this inflicts immediate, unbearable pain upon my sensitized nerves. To survive, I must continuously avoid high-radiation areas, paying a heavy "pain cost" every time I enter society. 3. Official Dismissal by Health Authorities Despite submitting extensive independent research to Norwegian health bodies, I have been systematically disbelieved and forced to survive on minimal social security benefits. To prove how national governments use thermal limits to deny medical accommodation, I submit these translated quotes from an official response I received from the Norwegian Ministry of Health (HOD), dated October 12, 2026 (Ref: 20/2972-): • "...no scientific basis for introducing special requirements for 'radiation-free' examination rooms..." • "The overall professional conclusion remains that it is not documented that non-ionizing radiation below current limits causes adverse health effects." • "On this basis, there is no ground for establishing special requirements for radiation-free examination rooms..." Because of this institutional blindness, on December 8, 2025, my essential hearing aid fitting was aborted after just one minute because the audiologist activated wireless programming (NIR), striking me with neuropathic pain. Clinicians are never taught that RF-EMF can inflict physical pain on compromised nerves. Specialized hospital psychosis clinics have fully evaluated me and explicitly ruled out any mental or psychosomatic illness, proving my pain is entirely physical. 4. A Verified Biological Example The only place my nervous system finds peace is in my wired, low-EMF home. I think my radiation-free environment benefits my rescue cat, who is between 16 and 20 years old. He surprises veterinarians with his exceptionally good blood values. His health is a living testament to what a clean, low-EMF environment does for a living body, allowing it to rest and heal. Recommendations to HHS: 1. Acknowledge that a damaged, hypersensitive nervous system responds to ambient RF/EMF as an immediate physical stressor, independent of thermal heating. 2. De-couple EMF sensitivity from psychosomatics and investigate underlying organic vulnerabilities. 3. Mandate analogue, radiation-free examination spaces and wired medical device programming options. Regards, Tove Kristine Jensen, Norway

Please look at the us army 1940-1955 medical command as well as field manuals discussion of the effects of known radio frequency at 1000 mhz and lower affect on white blood cell counts. As well as other health effects. The information is available and the microwave signal strength. The FCA is a commercial congressional committee that has ignored the medical data provided by the us military after the wwii era and the us army effects on soldiers of ionizing and radio frequency transmission and microwave radiation. Included is the Cold War veterans in in 1968 Germany following the invasion of the Czech Republic. All of which was declassified in 2012. The data is in the hands of the us government. It is your agencies responsibility to collect it. And this comment is notice.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a person who has experienced and continues to experience problems with EMFs, RF Radiation, and WI-FI. I discovered these as the source of my headaches about eighteen years ago and I have had to take numerous steps in my life to avoid these things. When I lived in a city surrounded by towers, I lived with headaches every day and night. So I had to move to a place in a tiny village where I had no cell phone service in the house. When I moved here, there was only one cell tower within half a mile of my house, now there are three. I have hard cabled computer and Internet, not WI-FI, and I have hard wired phones, no walk-around phones. I also have no microwave. I do own a cell phone but I only use it when I am away from home, and then I use it with a shield covering it. I had to pay thousands of dollars to remove the smart meter from the side of my home (the utility company refused my request to replace it with an analog meter), have it mounted on a power pole away from the house and bury the lines from the meter to the house, because whenever I was in the room where the smart meter was mounted on the outside, I could not stay more than several minutes before I got a headache and had to leave the room. When driving across the country, I can point out the location of cell towers and commercial broadcast towers because of the location of the pain drilling into my head (left side, right side, front or back). When I am somewhere that has WI-FI, I get a headache (and almost everyplace has WI-FI!). When traveling, I have to request a motel room as far away from the WI-FI router as possible, and even then I have sometimes had to leave in the middle of the night because of a severe headache. I’ve even had to leave some stores because of the headache I get from their WI-FI. When these things are strong, I sometimes also get nauseous. When I get away from the sources of EMFs and RFs, I feel fine. I am not the only person I know who is affected in this way. One of my cousins has now taken to wearing a hat lined with EMF/RF-blocking material because of the severe headaches he experiences. He even has to wear this in the office where he works. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

am not exaggerating when I say that cell towers, cell phones, wi-fi, etc. are ruining the quality of my life. Our adult son is so debilitated by EMFs he cannot work or even socialize with people who carry cell phones, which is everyone. He cannot get disability coverage for this disability, so my husband and I are supporting him with our dwindling retirement money and part-time jobs. We've already moved once to get away from cell towers, but they are EVERYWHERE. I am a 73-year-old retired dietitian, in excellent health, take no medications, 90% of my diet is organic, pasture raised, and grass-fed.  Our home has a landline phone, no satellite dishes for years, and we've never had Wi-Fi.  I own a cell phone but only turn it on when I need to use it. My debilitating issues (headaches, severe brain fog, heart palpitations) with cell phones and cell towers began as we all emerged from the covid lockdown.  I'd heard rumors that telecom companies would be taking advantage of fewer people on the streets to begin putting up a large number of cell towers. I thought this was silly because they seemed to have carte blanche to put cell towers up wherever and whenever they chose.  I've since learned to pay more attention to "rumors". My first major hit from a new cell tower was in the parking lot of our local Loveland, Colorado county building when I went in to register a new car. I had been to this building many times in prior years and had no issues.  On this day as I walked across the parking lot to the building, I quickly developed a crushing headache.  I'm not a person who gets headaches.  Later, as I left the building and got in my car, I looked up to see a huge, new cell tower that wasn't there the year before.  It's so powerful that I can no longer drive along that road without getting a headache. That was the beginning of my very restricted, and not-feeling-well life because of cell towers and other people's cell phones. Last year we moved to a smaller town nearby that we had visited often in the past thinking we would get some relief. It's WORSE because it's the tourist town of Estes Park, Colorado and they did their own maximizing of cell towers to "enhance" the visitor experience. Following is a list of places I can no longer go both in Loveland and Estes Park Colorado. We also have friends in the cities of Fort Collins and Longmont which are also EMF'd to the max. - Library - Estes Park and Loveland - Restaurants/coffee houses, theatres (usually because of the other patron's cell phones) - Quilt shop (on the second floor of a bank with a cell tower attached to the outer wall) - Also the quilt shop in Loveland - Quilters Guild meetings (in a church with a cell tower in the parking lot) - Musical festivals and events the town's park because of a looming cell tower. - A friend's home in Ft. Collins because they live next to a high school with TWO towers. (She is constantly sick) - The two hospitals in Loveland and one in Estes Park are so EMF'd I cannot drive by without getting a headache and heart palpitations. I had to cut short a hospital visit with a friend because I thought I would pass out. I used to work in a hospital so it's not fear of hospitals. - My favorite walking trail in Loveland. - Estes Park schools (elementary, jr. high, and high school) are in a section of town where I cannot drive down the street because I get headaches and heart palpitations. - Both the Loveland and Estes Park community centers - Estes Park fairgrounds - I cannot drive on highway 36 between Estes Park and Longmont/Boulder because of the cylindrical towers every 1/2 mile. - While stopped at the newer traffic lights my hands cramp on the steering wheel. Cramping goes away when I'm about a block away from the intersection. - A friend just moved to Greeley, Colorado and it's difficult to visit because the drive starting from I-25 along highway 34 to Greeley is littered with cell towers and stuff on the traffic light poles. By the time I reach her lovely EMF free home, I'm so sick it's hardly worth it. - Before applying for a job or planning to go ANYWHERE I need to visit first to see if I can tolerate the EMF level. My current temp job is about to end and I'm terrified that I won't be able to find a job environment that won't make me sick. Tomorrow my son and I are going to venture into town to see if there is any EMF activity at the new indoor carousel because I'd like to take my granddaughter later this week. I am so grateful to this administration's HHS and its attention to the EMF problem. EMFs are getting worse every year. We are considering moving to another town, but we can't afford to move again AND I'm sure there will be towers and people with their super powerful cell phones in line behind me at the grocery store.

I am extremely sensitive to EMF fields. Since moving to a new home with a smart meter, I’ve had to live in people’s basements that don’t have them. It’s the only way I feel good. When I’m in my home I get headaches, dizziness, nausea, and eventually my muscles feel very weak. It’s hard to stand, and I have an overall feeling of sickness. I am a career woman. I work very hard. I enjoy supporting myself and my children. I fear my future and my health. I’d like to feel good in my home and be able to work and look forward to the future. I beg that there be some kind of parameters around certain electromagnetic fields that are stronger and can have serious declining health, risks. I have asked my gas and electric company to remove the smart meter and put an old-school analog reader on it and I will pay the extra monthly fee for them to read it and they have declined. Please help.

A good friend of mine got a brain tumor right where he always held his phone to talk. He was a dancer and taught dance and as a result of the tumor he lost some of his sense of balance.

I get a body temparture of 38 Celcius staying too long in a wifi environment

I am a retired RN from California. I had exposures to cell phones, wifi, and electronic devices on the job. I have exposures to cell phones, cell phone towers, wifi and power lines in my personal life. I had exposure to smart meters, which, when implemented coincided with neurological symptoms. After opting out of the smart meter installation and going back to an analog electric meter, the neurological symptoms ceased. Scarato, T. (2025). U.S. policy on wireless technologies and public health protection: Regulatory gaps and proposed reforms. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1677583. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1677583 Melnick, R. L., Moskowitz, J. M., & International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF). (2026). Exposure limits to radiofrequency EMF do not account for cancer risk or reproductive toxicity assessed from data in experimental animals. Environmental Health, 25(1), 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-026-01288-6 Lai, H., & Levitt, B. B. (2024). Cellular and molecular effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields. Reviews on Environmental Health, 39(3), 519–529. https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2023-0023 Panagopoulos, D. J., Karabarbounis, A., Yakymenko, I., & Chrousos, G. P. (2021). Human-made electromagnetic fields: Ion forced-oscillation and voltage-gated ion channel dysfunction, oxidative stress and DNA damage (Review). International Journal of Oncology, 59(5), 92. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2021.5272

*See Attached: Non-thermal Electromagnetic Field studies demonstrating harmful effects.