I am submitting this comment as a patient with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) for docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397.
RF radiation is known to cause DNA strand breaks. We are all different in vulnerability. Some develop one disorder, others many: biochemical imbalances, leukemia, stroke, immune suppression, inflammation. This reflects individual differences in oxidative stress response and DNA repair capacity.
All electric systems conduct and re-radiate wireless signals: modems, computers, TVs, power wiring, smart electricity and gas meters (169 MHz for gas). Conductive building materials increase indoor exposure: drywall is mounted on metal studs acting as antennas, and reinforced concrete with steel rebar reflects and traps RF inside homes, preventing recovery.
EHS is not psychosomatic. It is recognized as a neurological pathology with objective biomarkers in the International Scientific Consensus:
Belpomme D, Carlo GL, Irigaray P, et al. The Critical Importance of Molecular Biomarkers and Imaging in the Study of Electrohypersensitivity. Int J Mol Sci. 2021;22(14):7321.
Supporting evidence from the EMP Victims European Appeal 2024-2025 bibliography (26 categories, >180 studies):
- Zothansiama et al. 2017 Electromagn Biol Med - DNA damage and antioxidant status near base stations
- Gulati et al. - genetic instability near towers
- Dasdag & Akdag - 2100 MHz induced oxidative stress
- Pei et al. 2024 - immune depression in mice
- Hardell & Carlberg 2013 Pathophysiology - dose-response glioma
- Foerster et al. 2018 Environ Health Perspect - memory effects in adolescents
- BioInitiative Working Group 2012 - biologically-based limits
In Europe, EHS is described as a humanitarian emergency. People lose housing, healthcare, work, and social inclusion. In Italy, smart gas and electricity meters are mandatory (ARERA), property of the distributor, and cannot be refused, even with medical certificate. Patients can only request relocation outside and deactivation of radio module.
I urge HHS to:
1. Compare US FCC thermal-only limits (1996) with precautionary EU limits and evaluate non-thermal effects, DNA damage, oxidative stress
2. Fund independent research on biomarkers and imaging for EHS
3. Recognize right to white zones in every region, housing in non-conductive materials (stone, solid wood), wired infrastructure, and right to remove or deactivate smart meters and to have manual reading for health reasons
4. Issue moratorium on new antennas and 5G densification near homes and schools, including high-power TV transmitters >20km and radar, until limits are revised
5. Protect vulnerable populations with practical low-exposure guidance
Thank you for giving patients a voice.
RFEMF is a broad spectrum toxicant with an astounding array of scientifically proven biological and physiological effects on all life forms. Biologically based standards must be developed ASAP (as opposed to thermal standards currently in use that are irrelevant to health). Inaction at this point, given the tens of thousands of research papers demonstrating the effects, would be highly negligent on the part of our government. Please see my affidavit below and associated research papers.
Sharon Goldberg, MD
Editorial Board Member, Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine
Associate Professor, Medicine Community Faculty, UNM School of Medicine
Course Director EMF MEdical Conference 2021
My first experience with EMFs was in the year 2000 when I purchased my first cell phone it was a 2g/3g. The adverse effects I began experiencing was trouble sleeping and headaches. So, I decided to remove the cell phone from my bedroom and the problems with sleeping and waking up with headaches stopped. As an IT professional, I asked the question why and started doing some research. Distance is key to reducing exposure and learning simple convenience changes. I began studying and researching the biological effects that man-made EMF exposures have on humans and other living organisms for years. My studies and research with health care professionals, scientists, researchers, journalists , EMF Mitigation professionals and Building biologists. We are bioelectrical systems and environmental exposure to artificial EMFs interact with fundamental biological processes in the human body and all life on this planet for example the BEEs. My next major challenge was in 2011, I could no longer work in electronic environments, because of my sensitivity to all of the electro-pollution that has now filled our environments. I cannot take airplane trips, be in large crowds, and going into to town is overwhelming on my nervous system. I live in Rural area in Nature where this is little exposure to the EMF toxins. I can feel the difference when I am in a Natural harmonic environment vs the city full of electro-pollution. I am living with Electro-hypersensitivity. When I am overwhelmed, it takes days for me to recover. I have experienced the following symptoms:
Trouble Sleeping
Headaches and migrancies
difficulty concentrating
dizziness
irritability
Heart palpitations, irregular heartbeats, fast heartrate
fatigue
weakness
depression
ringing in the ears
the phone when it rings sends a painful shock through my body
I now help people with EMF mitigation support, education as to source awareness, safer products, potential Health and well-being consequences, EMF mitigations and simple things they can do to reduce their health and well-being exposure. We have to consider EMFs as just one of the many possible factors in the Rising wave of chronic illness.
I also provided data to this website as Citizens Scientists:
https://globalemf.net/
Sources:
Electromagnetic field induced biological effects in humans
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27012122/
Electromagnetic fields act via activation of voltage-gated calcium channels to produce beneficial or adverse effects
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3780531/
Blank, M. (2014). "Overpowered: What Science Tells Us About the Dangers of Cell Phones and Other WiFi-Age Devices." Seven Stories Press.
Bijlsma N, Conduit R, Kennedy G, Cohen M. (2024). "Does radiofrequency radiation impact sleep? A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, crossover pilot study." Frontiers in Public Health, 12.
Potential health effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF)
https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/emerging/docs/scenihr_o_041.pdf
A comprehensive mechanism of biological and health effects of anthropogenic extremely low frequency and wireless communication electromagnetic fields
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1585441/full
A comprehensive mechanism of biological and health effects of anthropogenic extremely low frequency and wireless communication electromagnetic fields
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12179773/
Impact of electromagnetic radiation on human reproduction health: Causes, consequences, and potential therapeutic approaches
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1687850725007228
LIVING WITH ELECTROHYPERSENSITIVITY
A Survival Guide
http://www.weepinitiative.org/livingwithehs.html
Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields cause DNA strand breaks in normal cells
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3897901/
Health effects of electromagnetic fields on children
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7642138/
Neurophysiologic effects of radiofrequency and microwave radiation.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1807758/
Health Hazards of Wireless Technologies
https://www.healthandenvironment.org/latest-research/blog/health-hazards-of-wireless-technologies
Wireless Technology and Health Outcomes: Evidence and Review
https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/w/2010/wireless-tech-health-outcomes.ashx?la=fr
Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355
“Dr Martin L. Pall MD, MSc, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University, he points out that there are eight distinct and primary ways that man-made EMFs can cause harm, which he outlined in 5G Risk: The Scientific Perspective – Compelling Evidence for Eight Distinct Types of Great Harm Caused by Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposures and the Mechanism that Causes Them."
To whom this may concern,
When considering the impact of EMF not only on the environment but on human physiology with regard to known cases of wifi sensitivity, I would first consider if said frequencies have an impact during human growth and development on the human brain in vivo or on the foetus. This information garnered with the least invasive method would probably be found in areas with high EMF saturation in comparison to low saturation as well other places where there is a higher population density with lower emissions standards on communication devices(e.g. India, developing nations).
Also, a cross reference of brain scans and other data collected on bodily function pre-dating the introduction of certain EMF (e.g. 1920's to 1970's 1970's to pre-2000) and handheld technologies (cell phones, cellphone based applications) with a note to the size or shape of the Amygdala, Pre-frontal cortex, and Visual cortex if suspected frequencies/technologies may have impacted human behavior or memory not withholding the solar maximum and lunar cycle as variables due to possible synergism.
Newer technologies capable of mapping the current level of saturation and providing heatmaps to attest to if said EMF radiation's propagation have or would ever pose a detriment to life beyond a certain threshhold; specifically, cellsites and surrounding areas with special consideration to the experimental EMF auctioned off during the Coronavirus by the FCC.
Moving forward understanding if and when the threshhold of saturation would reach a danger to human or other life on Earth would seem to me to be immediate issue. A proposed idea is a device somewhat like a giegercounter/wifi analyzer connected to a drone with a program possibly pythonic capable of mapping time, date, altitude, geolocation, and EMF levels.
These surveys then Federally mandated as requirements to Telephone Service and Internet Service providers similar to carbon emission standards in the Automotive industry. This may be a non-sequitur seeing as the current and projected electro-magnetic frequency spectrum saturation on our planet could be deemed non-hazardous at any level but so Science goes as they say.
To a brighter future,
Aaron X.
Please be prudent. Don't continue to allow the public to be exposed to EMFs. I was in a documented pesticide accident (with a toxicology report proving what happened). At the time, the product was used according to the label, yet I had permanent damage as a result. I'm somewhat sensitive to EMFs.
Please take the scientific approach. Please don't dismiss anecdotal symptoms.
I know for a fact that Electro magnetic radiation from high tension wires near humans causes cancer tumors birth defects and many other problems in humans. I am 64 years old and remember either 60 minutes or another exposé TV show years ago in my youth showed how much radiation is in the air and they discussed how the federal government and the electric companies knew about the harm it can do and kept this secret for years. When I was around 30 I went to a buddy's house by a high tension wire next to his home. I began to tell him with a bunch of guys in his shed in the back of his house were he had a keg next to his motocross bike that the tension wires had high electro magnetic radiation that's not good for humans as was told on TV and the government and electric companies have covered it up for years. I told him about how the TV showed you can SHOW how much radiation is in the air by the TV show example how THEY showed the radiation by using an 8 foot flourescent light bulb tube and simply walked out in the field under the power lines and held it up to the sky at night and it lit up! I told my friend about this and asked if he had a flourescent bulb and sure enough, he pointed above us in his shed we were in. Myself and about 8 other guys all witness to this walked out into the field right next to his house and as I held the light tube horizontal to the ground one of my friends from Dundalk, Maryland, Gary, who I still speak with today said, "OH man I can see it starting to light up already!" It was very dimly lit. I said to him, "WAIT till you see what happens when I hold it towards the sky!" As every one gathered in the field, I said "Ready!? WATCH THIS SHIT!" I raised my hand with the 8 foot tube to the sky like Luke Skywalker holding a light sabre and sure enough, the bulb lit up in my hand and everyone was shocked! I explained what the TV show stated that I had learned. The electro magnetic radiation in the air was lighting the bulb! I had no idea but my friend who owned the house later would tell me, he went to his wife the next day and said, "WE'RE SELLING THE HOUSE! WE'RE MOVING!!!" And sure enough, he put the house up on the market and moved shortly after! His name was Dave Burrier. His wife is still alive. I talk with is Brother now and then. Dave would inform me months later that he told his wife the next day he was selling the home and he did it because of what I had showed him and told him about the electro magnetic radiation and how harmful it is to humans. He also would tell me something I did not know until that moment! His wife was pregnant in that house next to the powerlines after he got married to her and they had a baby. The baby was developed and born in that home next to the powerlines and the baby didn't last a month, it had all kinds of serious birth defective health problems. I don't know what they were, his brother could address that question as well as his still alive wife, but fact is, Dave attributed the death of his child and the problems that plagued the child that kept it in the hospital for about 3.5 weeks until the child died on those powerlines. Dave moved far away with his wife and bought a place in the woods away from powerlines and he and his wife had another baby and he's healthy and in his 20's today. Dave died during covid sadly. All of this is true. I can demostrate how you can light up a flourescent light bulb 8 foot long under powerlines even today from the high radiation coming off those power lines. So, the same goes for the 5G and cell phone towers. I would like this to be taken seriously and a study and research of this danger to society be conducted and exposed to the world so we can find a way to live safely around such highly dangerous radiation to humans. Please consdier this request to stop moving forward with this quick rush to technology and l protect human life first! I am a conservative and NOT an activist! But I know this info to be true because I showed it to be true back in the early 90's. I'm 64 today.
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 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.
Comment on Docket No. HHS-OASH-2026-0397, Request for Information on Radiofrequency and Electromagnetic Field Exposure and Human Health
I am a father in Central Florida and have worked in information technology since the 1990s. I use technology every day and I am not afraid of it. I am submitting this comment because I believe we can use it in healthier ways, and on behalf of the many people I have spoken with who share my experience (but will not comment).
MY EXPERIENCE
I have learned the distinct effects of each EMF issue: wireless signals, dirty electricity and magnetic fields.
Wireless: Around 5G networks and crowds of 5G phones, I feel stress and tightness in my chest and it becomes harder to breathe. The longer I stay, the worse I feel. In town I feel foggy, unmotivated and low, and I rely on caffeine to get through the day. In nature I feel lighter, clear-headed and motivated.
Dirty electricity: Electrical noise on household wiring from AC/DC power adapters affects me much like 5G. It causes stress in my body and weakens me over time.
Magnetic fields: During Florida summers, when air-conditioning load on the grid is highest, I feel a heavy drag on my body that weakens me. It eases noticeably in the fall when demand drops.
I feel my best when I keep my phone on airplane mode and only turn it on to 4G when needed, plug my computer and phone into ethernet whenever possible, and use wired satellite internet when traveling. I disabled 5G because it causes a distinct feeling of stress in my body. If I allow that frequency to be on for an extended period of time, I become numb to that initial sensation and my cognitive abilities diminish.
I have moved outside of town. This has a real cost: my daughter wants to live in town for access to school and culture, and that conflict strains our whole family.
I understand the science on symptoms like mine is not settled. That is why I respectfully ask HHS to consider the following.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Test before deployment. Fund independent health research on new frequencies before public release, including properly blinded studies of people who report sensitivity, so these experiences can be confirmed or ruled out rigorously.
2. Promote wired internet. Many people do not know phones and computers can be connected by cable. Support wired broadband in rural areas and public education about wired options.
3. Wired schools. Encourage schools to use wired connections for student devices and to minimize wireless exposure in classrooms.
4. Low-signal nature zones. Designate natural areas where towers are not aimed, with satellite phones available for emergencies, and support research on effects on birds, insects and wildlife.
5. Satellite signals. Current satellite rules appear safe. Please be mindful not to increase power output toward Earth. Test areas with and without satellite frequencies to establish a real control group. Give areas of nature and Indigenous lands a break from satellite and wireless signals if they do not ask for it.
6. Magnetic fields. Measure residential magnetic-field exposure in high-load regions such as Florida, and support burying power lines.
7. Clean DC power. Create clear building-code paths for DC-only homes, encourage DC and battery-powered appliances through rebates, and set standards to reduce electrical noise ("dirty electricity") from power adapters.
We do not need to fear technology. We need to evolve how we use it. Thank you for opening this record to members of the public.
Zachariah Stillwater
Melbourne Florida
We need Health and Human Services to protect health and humans more than it protects telecommunications companies. It's OK for regulations on wireless radiation levels to be inconvenient for these companies; they will still build their towers, but the citizens of a town and the families at a school and the homeowners in a neighborhood should be protected from excessive radiation levels that impact vulnerable communities. The radiation limits should be designed to protect human health, not to maximise industry profits. Please bring the science to forefront in demanding reasonable radiation limits to protect vulnerable populations, and please support medical practitioners in recommending safe use of wirless technology.
Society S33, a non-profit association from Slovenia, submits the attached comment on Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397.
Summary: exposure standards and studies describe the source (power, frequency, distance, duration) but not two factors that, according to our measurements, determine the effect on the human biological system: the location at which the device and the person are situated, and the shape of the device, the building and the objects around them, including power line pylons. Two uncontrolled variables of this kind would explain why studies in this field do not replicate. We recommend that location and shape be recorded as controlled variables in future research, and we offer to take part in a blinded trial whose design is a matter of agreement.
The full comment is attached as a PDF.
Boštjan Rode, President, Society S33
info@drustvo-s33.org