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Docket: HHS-OASH-2026-0397 Perspective (Question 2): Individual consumer and homeowner who has measured ambient fields with a consumer multi-field meter (GQ EMF-390) and is concerned about cumulative exposure for my family, including a young child. Exposures (Question 3): I live in a typical household with a growing number of devices transmitting EMF. WiFi and bluetooth on multiple devices, smart meters, and wireless infrastructure. Observed Exposure Patterns (Question 4k): Observed exposure patterns: I got a sensor to review my family's exposure. A surprising finding was that just standard wiring by light switches would give high readings. As a small test i held the sensor up to my phone while streaming a video, our running microwave, and both the phone and microwave at once. The phone and microwave together showed higher readings than the devices by themselves. Holding the sensor higher resulted in higher readings. Taking the sensor outside was notably less exposure. Another surprise to me was that at my work in an office the signal generally was less than at home. My family is concerned but does not have any noticeable health impacts that can directly be attributed to exposures that I know of. Future Research Recommendations (Questions 4m, 5o): Existing studies seem to focus on controlled lab environments mostly over short term exposures. Future studies should look at cumulative real world situations. Cumulative meaning interactions of different sources of exposure and exposure over time. One example experiment is proposed. A straightforward way to test the claim of direct sensing is a properly controlled, double-blind or blinded field protocol: participants who self-identify as sensitive are transported or positioned near verified high- and low-exposure locations (cell sites, base stations, or controlled sources) without visual or other cues, with actual field levels measured independently. Demographic diversity (age, sex, race/ethnicity) would strengthen generalizability. FCC guidance accounts for multiple transmitters inside one product and for multiple fixed sources with known spatial relationships when evaluating site compliance, but does not fully capture the real-world ambient mixture of ELF wiring fields + intermittent RF from phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, IoT devices, and distant infrastructure. A controlled “future home” protocol that starts with a low-RF baseline and progressively adds devices while measuring both fields and any biological endpoints would help quantify cumulative patterns. Current Research (Question 6): Current research: Existing studies show limited conclusive health impacts but admit limitations of existing studies (Ruben et al 2010). Regulatory Recommendation (Questions 5n, 5o, 9, 10): The limitations of existing studies could be greatly reduced if agencies moved toward a planned, phased in implementation. Whenever a new technology is introduced that would change exposures, select a subset of states to release it in first. Conduct health and environmental surveys before and well after the innovation is introduced in the test states as well as their neighboring states. This allows a control group to compare against in all demographics with 1 procedural update. Otherwise, different tests would be needed to ensure safety of different populations and it will be far more difficult. With this process update, states would be motivated to get good health and environmental records to be able to be a part of a new innovation rollout. I expect that industry and states will be against it. However, an economic study using forecast computer models would be interesting. It would help distribute technology through the country rather than having central points of innovation. I could see arguments that the economy would benefit while reducing the potential harms to society. This recommendation does not stop innovation but presents a needed planned implementation. It proposed an experiment. Without it, in the current system, it is still an experiment, but it's an experiment without a control group which is far more difficult for individuals and policy makers to make informed decisions. Historical perspective (Questions 5, 6, 16): When microwave ovens entered widespread use, regulators set leakage limits (FDA) and exposure guidelines. Debates occurred; some Eastern European standards were substantially stricter. Ovens were not banned in the USSR; leakage standards and measurement protocols were developed and enforced. Cumulative personal monitoring analogous to ionizing-radiation dosimetry badges has not been standard for non-ionizing fields because the primary established hazard mechanism differs and ambient levels are generally far below thermal thresholds. As device density and infrastructure increase, revisiting whether population-level cumulative exposure tracking or better disclosure is warranted is reasonable.

Set regulations for .05 microwaves per cm squared when the cell.tower is sited. Homeland security does surveillance by synthetic aperture radar camera readings as high as 300mw/cm2.The readings are higher near the tower and the beam spreads out as it encountered moisture in the atmosphere effecting thousands of people plants and animals. Have thousands of extreme readings logged!

I am commenting mostly from The perspective of husband to an Electrically Sensitive person as well as an experince I had. My wife has severe muscle cramping that gradually increases in intensity and pain after even a few moments of exposure to cell phone singals. Particularly, when a call is actively being used. Her reactions occar when an active call is within 35 feet of her but shorter distances increase the effect. This has been confirmed to me when I have simply walked by the house passing at closest, 10 feet from her. She being inside the house and having no knowledge that I was on a call, nor passing near her. Those evenings later she would be in pain and not understand why. I knew the reason because I had not respected the rule of maintaining my distance with my phone. The pain leads to insomnia for her and the insomnia leads to further severe pain. She is unable to function nor enjoy life until this cycle can be broken. Muscle relaxers have broken this cycle and prevented it but it's a challenge for her to go to town and be around people since cell phone use became widespread in the last decade. I wanted to briefly share our experience and I hope it is helpful to you. Thank-You

EMF is horrible. I am one of those people who HAD TO have my smart meter switched back and we all know that it was only switched back to a digital meter. I have an interesting share! I had ordered my smart meter removed/exchanged for an analog (digital is what ya get) and they gave me a date they would be installing it. About a week before that time, they called and let me know they had to move my date 6+ months later. I took a picture of the meter because I wanted to be sure I received a new one. Anyway, not in 6 months, more like 2, I started sleeping better. I even told my husband that I was sleeping so much better that it was like the smart meter had been taken away. Then I thought to go outside and look and sure enough they had changed it out. We must not have been home and the picture I took proved it. IT HAD been switched. Of course the fee also followed right after that for the exchange. Charged for something I never wanted switched in the first place. WiFi has to be off in my house when I sleep or am sick. I am what I think is called a sensitive and I literally can feel the vibration running through me. It is worst at night when I settle down to try and sleep. No C19 shot, I think I may have had covid briefly- just saying. The feeling is unsettling. When I go camping, I sleep like a baby. I am over 50. If this gets any worse, I will have to move further away from things. I believe my husband is affected and does not realize it. One other time, I was in the hospital with my father. He was in one of the rooms they put you in when you enter through emergency. So the room had a door to enter and a door to the side hall. I had planned to stay all night with him but my body was charged worse than ever. I felt like I was going to come unhinged. Literally made me sick. Finally, one of the times that I got up and was snooping around, I opened the side door to find that it was the side hall and they used it to put a bunch of machines to charge. Ones they roll around room to room to do tests. I was unable to stay with my father that night. Not sure how people are working in that atmosphere. Please Please,Please, find a way for the old technology to return. TV can be a challenge too. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Maybe the Amish were right about some things we don't need. I have no doubt the EMF will bring us to an early sickness and death if they do not stop.

I am so happy that the public is finally being asked to participate in important health concerns. My Grand Daughter, at 10 years of age is now taking typing lessons at school on a computer. They have wi-fi exposure all day long and are on the computers a good part of that day. She comes home just bouncing off the walls, or sick! The school will not hear the parents about the dangers! They seem to need someone of "authority" to tell them that their decisions to go digital in all ways, are not benefiting the kids! I believe it is having the opposite affect! We need more "gold standard science" to PROVE that these technologies are dangerous, and promote illness not health in our kids!! Thank you for persuing this issue!!

I learned several years ago that I am hypersensitive to EMFs, and I know that I am due to pain that I experience in my ear and face. I take all precautions that I can to avoid them but of course I know total avoidance is impossible. I’m 74 years old. I am astonished that young children are increasingly subjected to EMFs in all walks of life, including at school. It is an outrage. Something must be done.

TAKE ALL THISE 5G towers DOWN THEY ATE HARMING THE PUBLIC THE EMF!s they are emitting is unbelievable Pkease please take them all down they are hiring them in India

I have known this for 6 years now. To whom it made concern, I'm fed up with it enough is enough. This stuff is so harmful. Our bushes are dying our grasses dying. Our trees are dying. I hear the frequency steady when it's low. And then when they push it high, it affects everything inside my body and outside my body. I see people's moods every day. It never used to be this way back in the 60s, and the 70s, it was the best time to be alive. This cannot continue we. The people did not give you permission to do this to none of us worldwide is affected by what you evil tyrants are doing, may God show no mercy sincerely, a very affected human being.

I am Michael Roque, seventy seven years old and have experienced this inhuman technology for almost eighteen years without valid reason. The burning of the skin and interior organs would have made the third Reich jealous . This should not happen anywhere but especially in a country that boasts of being a bastion of freedom and liberty. It’s wrong on so many levels. I can be reached at 20 Sauk Trail, Indian Head Park, Illinois 60525.

Tingling in my hands started every time I would pick up my phone. Each time my phone would reach my ears, I would have tingling in my temple. The wifi in the house and at work causes so much brain fog and pressure like symptoms in my head. To mitigate these issues I try to stay off of my phone, use speaker phone or wired head phones when talking and shutting off the wifi as much as possible at home. At work, there has been nothing I can do to mitigate the issues.