Children & vulnerable groups

Walking into a store that sells technology, like Best Buy, leaves me feeling weak and disoriented. My nephew is literally addicted to his device. He can no longer carry on normal social interactions, because he must always be checking his phone. Our little black ants that have lived here at this home for over 50 years disappeared when 5G was installed along the highways for emergency vehicle use. Now we have much fewer ants. They are smaller and of a different color, more gray. One of my good friends needs to wear fabric woven with metal thread as underwear in order to avoid becoming disoriented while walking around the neighborhood. And she can not enter most stores for shopping, or drive on the more major highways, because the radio waves are too strong, and she becomes disoriented if she does. These are not small concerns. Cell phone use in cars is now illegal in the U.K. because they harm the brains of small children as the radio waves become trapped in the cars and bounce around causing damage to the brain. We know that bees can not find their way into their hives if cell phones are in use near their hives. Please consider these concerns and give them your thoughtful response when making decisions about whether or not to allow more wireless Radiation, RF Radiation or EMFs. Thank you.

Hi, my name is Julie Beck l, I live in the Town of Frisco in Colorado. I live in a condo, 4 units in my building. Last February I opted out of Xcel Energy smart electric meter program, I encouraged all my neighbors to do so too explaining that the meters are 6ft from where the ground floor unit holders sleep and withing your bio energetic field which emits 5-6ft from us all. I was the only one to opt out and have a non communicating meter but the other 3 meters and 1 for our laundry unit emit pulses of emf rf every 45 seconds. I am unable to sleep in my master bedroom for 1.5 years now because of this. Xcel energy does nothing, my hoa wont do anything, my Town wont do anything with a building code. Have to sleep in my spare bedroom with a silver beanie on my head every night so I dont get a headache and wired. I am not a headache person and slept ok for the prior 18 years I lived here. My $1million condo is unusable!! I have an RF meter and go around my Town and the RF is off the charts next to our preschool and private middle/high school. I just showed the Town Manager the frequencies as he and I walked around Town. Apparently the FCC has free reign to place EMF tower eg 5G, anywhere in our town. No one at the town hall, on town council, even knows the frequencies being emitted or if its a 5G or 6G tower. They are in residential areas. The south side of Main St between 4th and 5th Ave are ofd the charts EMF RF, I have seen over 200 Mw/m² ( Milli Watts per meter squared) on the side walk. My RF meter says "safe" until 15 Mw/m² then it says "over" and starts beeping and goes red. I feel angry and haggard after walking through that block and people are eating on the sidewalk there. And we wonder why peole are angry, sterile, sick. The FCC is corrupt and has outdated 1990s upper limit standards compared to other European countries. I tell people that whatever the government says, if u do the opposite then you will be fine! The government is responsible for contaminating our air with dangerous emfs, chemical trails/particulate matter, poisoning our water, our food (glyphosate, diquat etc) and doing little or nothing to regulate poisons in our food. Every restaurant serves poison water and sysco truck low quality poisoned food. BLQCKROCK etc has bought any good food company and poisoned the food. Darpa or whoever has fucked our skies with poisons, the sky isn't the same violet blue any longer and emfs are emitted daily, I see the wispy clouds, chem trails, funky clouds that are man made. And whats with the created drought last winter??? Sick of it.

Hello I have been practicing Chinese and natural functional medicine in a family practice for 36 years, and have trained over 20,000 health professionals in 33 years of teaching. I've seen firsthand the adverse effects of unlimited EMF exposure in patients. I urge you to resist industry influence, evaluate the evidence dispassionately, and take action to protect the public. Thank you. 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.

I have acute electromagnetic hypersensitivity. It began with multiple perplexing symptoms: muscle and joint pain especially my legs and feet; memory difficulties; dizziness/fogginess; heart pounding/palpitations; cataracts (just had cataract surgery); ringing in the ears constantly; night sweats; periodic itching; etc. All I could do was sit on the couch and cry. Desperate, I found the first website WEEP (which goes back to 2008!) describing everything I was experiencing and found books and articles I devoured (Exposed by Bill Cadwallader; EMF Practical Guide by Lloyd Burrell, Zapped by Ann Louise Gittleman, The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg.…) Discovering there are EMF specialists, I hired one here in the Twin Cities (Building Biologists) who helped with some mitigations such as replacing smart meter, installing ethernet, turning breakers off at night, creating a safe sleeping space, EMF power strips, ditching the microwave, etc. I consulted with an EMF specialist online, Jeremy Johnson, who helped further with meters, travel bed canopies, fiber optic set up with the ethernet, computer safety, etc. I’m surrounded by cell towers, from 1/2 to 2 miles away. My previous regular bike route in any direction passes a cell tower. EMF protective clothing and blankets can help a little particulary in the car but are only a small part of the equation. There have been many studies concerning EMF particularly with iPhones as listed in the books above; however, the standard on what is safe still goes back to tests done in the 90s measuring heat – we are way past that now! I also have read many articles about 5G and 6G having been developed as bioweapons by our own government – why do we need these frequencies? Lastly, I can hardly stand it when I see cell towers placed at schools, churches and parks with children being exposed day after day. Four doctors and a dentist later, I am giving them information on EMF and symptoms. They never heard of it – are they diagnosing symptoms such as mine without realizing the real source? Lastly, please visit 4rbees.com who has developed PureWave cells thoroughly research – saving the bees plus humans are using it as well. We are all being affected on a cell level from EMF. Please take action to protect us!

Wireless radiation is a toxic exposure that hasn't been properly studied to truly understand its harmful impacts on children, wildlife, and insects, including bees and other pollinators. This is because many so-called "studies" have been funded by Big Tech, which puts profits over both people and the natural world. Many children and adults are experiencing adverse health effects daily, reducing their quality of life and leading to illness. Please also consider widespread harm to fruits and vegetables from a declining pollinator population. I support people affected by wireless radiation, especially those who may not realize the root cause of their illnesses. I believe HHS should address this issue for the health of all Americans. 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, families, healthcare providers, researchers, and scientists with an opportunity to finally be heard on this critical public health issue.

Like most Americans pursuing the dream, we have been keeping up with the ever growing need for cellphones, iPads for all of our homeschooling kids, Apple Watches to keep us all connected, faster WiFi and full home security systems, after all, we’re trying to provide the best for our family. Until December of 2024 spiraled our family on to a medical goose chase as mold exposure paired with these ever magnifying frequencies, sent our kids searching for reasons they didn’t feel good. To top it off, our sweet daughter alap came down with tic-borne Bartonella Henslae and Anaplasma bacterias that have radically jerked our family around leaving us running towards alternative answers for here very quickly cascading neurological symptoms that almost took her life 300 days in. Today we’ve had to move away from our home near the city (and many local towers and antennas), and search for medical attention to try to help her fully recover. Day 670, and we’ve yet to see her memory restored. How did we know to move away from all the frequencies? Our family-friend has a property on a mountain near our city created with low to no EMF exposure. His scientific studies and great love for our families recovery took our debilitated daughter to the mountain for a few days. After our third day, she was walking and kicking a soccer ball for the first time in over a year since she was in full time ballet classes like a normal 13 year old girl just a year prior. She has been the most significantly impacted with a hyper sensitivity to all of the exposures and today must refrain from family events, using all phone or RF exposing devices, unless she stays inside a small silver EMF canopy to shield her from it all. Her new awareness of exposures has left her unable to live a normal life, daily debilitation, and the bacterias continue aggressively suppressing her body as her immune system fights the issues inside and out. Walking away from our home, our sense of a “normal” family, and the hope to help her recover safely away from it all has moved us into a motorhome ready to go anywhere we can to give us peace and healing. We’re still learning about EMF’s, RF’s and cellphone exposure, but Avery can tell if it’s within 100 feet of her. It’s time to start learning about the negative implications of the ever progressing lives we all yearn to live. Thank you for reading.

I am a parent of two elementary-school children, commenting on HHS-OASH-2026-0397. I support wireless technology. I do not support treating the absence of a settled harm finding as if it were a finding of long-term safety for children. Criminal law puts the burden on the state before it punishes a person. Chronic exposure of a whole generation is not that kind of question. Where exposure is widespread, begins in early childhood, and will continue for decades, the burden should be on showing that exposure below current limits is safe enough for developing brains and bodies. That is the precautionary principle, and it is the right standard for this RFI. U.S. radiofrequency limits are built primarily on avoidance of tissue heating and date to 1996. Children now grow up with phones, Wi-Fi, wearables, and nearby infrastructure that did not exist when those limits were set. A child’s head is smaller, the skull is thinner, and the same external field can produce a higher localized absorption than in an adult. That is an exposure fact, not by itself proof of injury. It is enough to reject adult-only limits as a sufficient account of childhood exposure. I am not asking HHS to declare a mechanism or to ban the technology. I am asking the Department to stop leaving parents with reassurance in place of evidence. The questions that matter for my children are still open. What is the evidence, for and against, that long-term radiofrequency exposure below current federal limits affects neurodevelopment, sleep, attention, and mitochondrial function? How should cumulative exposure from phones, routers, school networks, and nearby antennas be added together, rather than assessed one device at a time? Which international guidelines use lower limits or added precaution for children, what evidence those guidelines rest on, and why the United States does or does not follow them? I ask HHS to do four things. First, publish a plain-language comparison of U.S. radiofrequency limits with international guidelines that apply lower limits or additional precaution for children, and state the evidence each standard actually rests on. Second, fund independent research on long-term, low-level exposure in children and adolescents, with sleep, attention, neurodevelopment, and mitochondrial function as priority endpoints. Industry-funded work should be identified as such. Third, issue practical guidance for schools and families that reduces exposure without abandoning the technology: distance from the body, wired connections where feasible, routers and devices out of sleeping areas, and phones off the body and away from the bed. Fourth, treat childhood exposure near schools and in homes as its own assessment, not as a scaled-down version of occupational or adult-phone exposure. My children will live their entire development inside whatever standard this review leaves in place. A limited evidence base is a reason for precaution and better science. It is not a reason to treat the question as closed.

EMF pollution has caused great sickness to me and my family. From the recent installation of the 5G towers (right across the street from a local High School where children are present), all the units hanging outside my home up and down the streets on local wires, transmitting areas, that keep growing, the radiation that comes out of my and my children's cell phones, the routers in our homes etc are destroying our health. It has caused the following: extreme headaches, brain fog, racing heart palpitations, insomnia, anxiety and depression, and the is all documented by our Integrative Doctor. We implore you to remove these dangerous units and access measures of EMF's that our harming us and our children.

I am submitting this comment as a consumer concerned about long-term exposure to wireless radiation from phones, Wi-Fi routers, cell towers, and other connected devices. I urge HHS to conduct a thorough, independent review of whether current exposure limits adequately protect public health. This review needs to consider those most heavily exposed and should examine potential effects beyond tissue heating, including evidence concerning cancer, reproductive health, and children’s development. Please prioritize research that reflects how people actually encounter wireless radiation: repeated exposure over many years, often from multiple sources and devices used close to the body. Assessments should consider signal strength, pulse patterns, duration, and combined exposure. Please consider Melnick and Moskowitz’s 2026 analysis of animal data, which argues that existing exposure limits may inadequately protect against cancer and reproductive harm (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-026-01288-6). I also ask HHS to evaluate Lai and Levitt’s review of exposure intensity, duration, and signal modulation (https://doi.org/10.1080/15368378.2022.2065683), and Scarato’s review of US regulatory gaps and proposed reforms (https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1677583). These papers warrant careful consideration alongside the broader evidence, including studies that have not found adverse effects. I ask HHS to: •Assess whether additional protections are needed for children, pregnant women, and other potentially vulnerable groups. •Support long-term research with safeguards against industry conflicts of interest. •Provide clear information about exposure and practical ways to reduce it, including wired alternatives in homes and schools. •Recommend updated standards wherever the evidence shows that existing limits are insufficient. Consumers should not have to navigate these questions alone. Please use this inquiry to advance transparent science, meaningful oversight, and public health protection.

I am submitting this comment as a consumer concerned about long-term exposure to wireless radiation from phones, Wi-Fi routers, cell towers, and other connected devices. I urge HHS to conduct a thorough, independent review of whether current exposure limits adequately protect public health. This review needs to consider those most heavily exposed and should examine potential effects beyond tissue heating, including evidence concerning cancer, reproductive health, and children’s development. Please prioritize research that reflects how people actually encounter wireless radiation: repeated exposure over many years, often from multiple sources and devices used close to the body. Assessments should consider signal strength, pulse patterns, duration, and combined exposure. Please consider Melnick and Moskowitz’s 2026 analysis of animal data, which argues that existing exposure limits may inadequately protect against cancer and reproductive harm (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-026-01288-6). I also ask HHS to evaluate Lai and Levitt’s review of exposure intensity, duration, and signal modulation (https://doi.org/10.1080/15368378.2022.2065683), and Scarato’s review of US regulatory gaps and proposed reforms (https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1677583). These papers warrant careful consideration alongside the broader evidence, including studies that have not found adverse effects. I ask HHS to: •Assess whether additional protections are needed for children, pregnant women, and other potentially vulnerable groups. •Support long-term research with safeguards against industry conflicts of interest. •Provide clear information about exposure and practical ways to reduce it, including wired alternatives in homes and schools. •Recommend updated standards wherever the evidence shows that existing limits are insufficient. Consumers should not have to navigate these questions alone. Please use this inquiry to advance transparent science, meaningful oversight, and public health protection.