Exposure limits & oversight

I am extremely concerned about emf damage to people’s health, the environment and even to city infrastructure.  The main response I’ve heard from the Telecom companies is, that no matter what the evidence, they are simply complying with FCC guidelines, end of story. So, we're not allowed to mention health concerns, because TeleCom devices and equipment comply within safety guidelines set way back in 1996, 30 years ago?  With advances in technology occurring at lightening speed? There is ample evidence today, why the health issue must be addressed by everyone and why we all must care. By the FCC's own admittance, its regulations are long outdated.  Way back in 2013, in light of evidence backed by substantial science on health risks, the FCC was questioning itself regarding the accuracy of their own limits with regard to the potential health hazard of electromagnetic fields. I refer to the Document from the Federal Register dated 06/04/2013, Docket Name Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields. This suggests that the FCC was having to review the issue years ago, though nothing changed while the emts have proliferated and amplified. With regard to the health risks of emf radiation, I cite just one report of many, The BioInitiative Report, of 2012, by 29 independent scientists, stating that biological effects are clearly established and occur at very low levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation from just minutes of exposure to mobile phone masts (cell towers), WI-FI...  and on.  http://www.bioinitiative.org/conclusions As for its effects on infrastructure, I cite a letter from Chief Science Officer Curtis Bennett,  Journeyman Electrician Engineering Technologist, to the Energy Minister of British Columbia, March 7, 2012. Bennett states " Blanketing areas with frequencies for ease of communication has serious ramifications on buildings and infrastructure that requires immediate attention. Frequencies blasting across the atmosphere to communicate with smart devices will interact with all infrastructure…  Buildings subjected to frequencies have to be designed for it." Bennett goes on to elaborate about liabilities. The entirety of his letter is disturbing. Technology has moved at lightening speed and science, with longer term studies now exposing data… the alarm is sounding.

As a parent and teacher of kids who use technology regularly, we need to know what the physiological, mental and health effects of these types of frequencies and radiations are. Please do real science and research and use it to make policy that protects American citizens and children.

My family is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and are unfortunately exposed to more and more EMR every time we go to town. 5G cell towers are popping up everywhere and the march of smart gadgets are hard to avoid. I personally get severe headaches when I’m near WIFI for any length of time. We have to pay our electric company extra every month to avoid having a smart meter placed outside our bedroom. The corporate push to use EMR in all aspects of our daily lives is literally killing us and needs to be regulated through new independent scientific studies overseen by reputable non-profits like the Environmental Health Trust. Why has HHS not conducted regular safety studies on new cell phones using 5G and 6G? We know that 2G-4G negatively impacted rat health in laboratory studies. The evidence is there but the public continues to be misled and unprotected by irresponsible corporate greed. Lawsuits are overdue on the subject of human EMR exposure! We trust HSS will serve the public good and do the right thing in regulating EMR in the near future. Thank you

I find it incredibly irresponsible that our United States government allows EMF radiation to be so rampant in our nation without proper "long term" safety studies! We need a responsible government and not a good old boys club exchanging money to push this stuff thru. We've become completely sold out to big corporations regardless of what they sell from pharmaceuticals, communications, energy, tech, oil, etc. And why is the comment period so short?

Thank you for reaching out to the public on this very important matter affecting all Americans. Given the technology that has evolved, the 1996 FCC standards for RF/EMF are barely relevant, woefully inadequate and antiquated. I hope that based on the information received, the HHS can provide recommendations to FCC to enact some urgent practical steps to help residential neighborhoods and schools minimize exposure, pending some of the more complicated research issues. FCC should defer to HHS's expertise and judgment on such matters, since FCC has demonstrated scant, if any, concern for public safety over the last 30 years.

A "smart meter" emitting wireless radiation was installed on my house, as well as all houses in the community, putting me at risk from EMF exposure. To protect myself, I had it removed in exchange for the previous meter and am penalized $34 a month. What kind of entitlement exhibits this predatory behavior as well as the pathology that allows it to happen? I should be reimbursed the $34 a month. as well as any installation fee. It is criminal to impose harmful technology on people.

I have negative neurological health symptoms when I use my cell phone. I recently used my cell phone a lot more during 6 weeks of travel. (my ethernet wired laptop was home). A PubMed article dated July 15, 2020, titled “Health risks from radiofrequency radiation, including 5G, should be assessed by experts with no conflicts of interest” discusses obvious conflicts of interest on this subject. Excerpts from this paper are below: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7405337/#sec4 In addition, in 2023, the rats and monkeys experiments were explicitly discussed in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health via a paper co-authored by 13 experts on behalf of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF): These experts include: Paul Héroux, Igor Belyaev, Kent Chamberlin, Suleyman Dasdag, Alvaro Augusto Almeida De Salles, Claudio Enrique Fernandez Rodriguez, Lennart Hardell, Elizabeth Kelley, Kavindra Kumar Kesari, Erica Mallery-Blythe, Ronald L. Melnick, Anthony B. Miller, and Joel M. Moskowitz. The paper is titled “Cell Phone Radiation Exposure Limits and Engineering Solutions”. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369836628_Cell_Phone_Radiation_Exposure_Limits_and_Eng ineering_Solutions. The authors discuss seven fundamental “Blind Spots” in the IEEE-ICNIRP evaluation of the biological effects of RFR. Your MPE guidelines are severely outdated and inaccurate in using only thermal effects. They MUST be updated to reflect today's world of households with multiple wireless sources and 24/7 exposure.

WALLINGTON, NJ: OUR CHILDREN LIVE INSIDE THE SIGNAL, 24 HOURS A DAY. Every person in Wallington lives within half a mile of a cell antenna installation. Most live within half a mile of two or more. I ask HHS to make Wallington a pilot site and to come see it. My full report is attached. ABOUT ME. Szymon Sikorski. Medical degree; 20 years in medical research analysis, the last five on cancer. Parent of a child in Wallington public schools. I write for no institution. For six years I lived and worked from home near the Hathaway Street Park cell tower. Day and night. Then I was diagnosed with cancer. Now I live with it, and with the fear of it getting worse. How much of it came from six years of round-the-clock RF and EMF exposure? No one can tell me. No one ever measured it. PEOPLE SEE ONE TOWER. WE HAVE SIX INSTALLATIONS. They carry more than 70 panels, most hidden in plain sight: on a water tank next to an elementary school, an apartment roof where families sleep directly under eight antennas, a self-storage building, an old water tower and a chimney. You may see a tower 2,000 feet away and miss the antennas much closer to home. Not one has ever been held to Wallington's own 500-foot rule. THE WARNINGS ARE NOT NEW. The World Health Organization's cancer agency (IARC) lists radio-frequency radiation, and magnetic fields from electrical equipment, as possibly causing cancer in humans. In 2019, and again in 2024, its advisers called a new cancer review a high priority. The American Academy of Pediatrics told the FCC its limits do not account for children and pregnant women, and a federal court ordered the FCC to explain how they protect children long term. Firefighters asked for a federal study of antennas on their stations in 2004. It was never done. WHY 1,500 FEET? In Germany and Israel, studies found more cancers among people living within about 1,150 to 1,300 feet of cell antennas. A 1,500-foot buffer covers that distance. Legislators keep proposing 1,500 feet or more from schools; in New Hampshire, 1,640 feet from homes and schools. In Wallington, 83% of homes are within 1,500 feet of an installation. 24 HOURS A DAY, NOT 30 MINUTES. FCC limits were set in 1996 to stop tissue heating, averaged over 30 minutes. They do not count years. Our exposure does not stop after 30 minutes. It never stops. THINK OF ONE WALLINGTON CHILD. She spends her school day at Gavlak Elementary, 180 feet from antennas on the water tank, with three installations within half a mile. Then she comes home, still within reach of more. She sleeps there. In the morning she goes back. Year after year, while her brain and body are still growing, her exposure adds up. No one has ever studied a child like her. Her teachers may spend whole pregnancies 180 feet from those antennas. No one has studied that either. WHAT I MEASURED. In neighbors' homes within 900 feet of the tower, RF read about 7 mW/m². In the park where children play, 20 to 33. Magnetic fields at the tower's base reached 45 mG. All far below FCC limits. Yet studies found effects at these levels: where RF was higher, students scored lower on memory tests, schoolchildren had more DNA damage markers, and residents reported more symptoms. Children in homes averaging above 4 mG had about double the leukemia risk. RISK VERSUS BENEFIT. The Borough collects about $80,000 a year from two of these sites. That is $6.78 per resident per year. About $41 over six years. $41. Against cancer. Against a parent's worry that never ends. THE TOWER COMPANY WILL NOT CARRY THE RISK. The company holding the Hathaway tower lease tells investors it has no significant insurance against RF health claims. Insurers have long excluded these risks. Why are they worried about liability? What do they know that we do not? TOWNS ARE REMOVING ANTENNAS, NOT JUST BANNING NEW ONES. In California, a carrier removed a tower from an elementary school after four students got cancer, even though it tested within federal limits. In New York, a 150-foot tower beside a public housing playground came down after residents objected. India's Supreme Court ordered a tower switched off for a cancer patient who said it hit his home 24/7 for 13 years. Here, no one was even told. Not residents, not parents, not the school. Everyone who understands this now carries one more worry, every day, especially parents. Home values and taxes suffer too; the report covers that. WHAT I ASK. (1) A health-based distance from schools and homes, and moving antennas that are too close, starting on public property. (2) Make every antenna's owner, frequencies and power public. (3) Link cancer and birth records to antenna history. (4) Study children exposed at school and at home, for years. (5) Come to Wallington.

MY NEIGHBORS AND ANIMALS ARE DYING I am SICK. My family members have been SICK SINCE more than a hundred UNREGULATED TOWERS WENT LIVE over our community. This has been a challenge for me to get anyone to help in my community. I wanted to share my story in hopes of helping others. My story is one of many in Terrebonne Parish. After multiple (9) 300-foot 5G towers were put over our homes, four 300-foot 5G towers were put over my home and animal sanctuary, and four 300-foot towers were put over my office. At the same time, smart meters were put on my home, along with those of every other Entergy customer. I began getting sick, very sick. It began in my petting area with heart palpitations, headaches, vomiting, ringing in my ears, confusion, bleeding gums, insomnia, nightmares, dizziness, anxiety, ears buzzing 24 hours a day, severe fatigue, muscle weakness, and more. I have now been diagnosed with radiation syndrome / EHS (electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome) caused by extreme exposure to radiation. Many residents are experiencing similar symptoms. Countless children are now suffering. Being a very healthy person my whole life, this has been a life-changing situation. I am usually the one helping others; now I need your help. I never thought this could happen until I was forced to face it by becoming sick. I'm not sure where this illness will take me. However, I must do all I can to protect my family and my community. Seven neighbors on my street and friends have died after the towers went live over their homes. Many other residents are also sick. My community is surrounded by towers that have no regulatory testing information, nor does our planning department ask for it, citing the FCC's outdated RF radiation guidelines. I became certified in RF radiation testing. I now test the towers and smart meters. I can confirm that the EMF (electromagnetic frequency) / RF (radio frequency) radiation being emitted is extreme for every single product, tower, and smart device I have tested. It has been a fight to protect my family, my community, and myself, with EVERYONE CITING THE FCC'S OUTDATED RF RADIATION GUIDELINES. I had to learn all I could about this to protect my health and theirs. I've had to turn my home, where I have lived for 28 years, into an EMF-safe house (until I sell it), as well as my barn, which is surrounded by EMF material and protection. My bed is covered with EMF protection as well due to the radiation levels in my home. I now have to wear protective clothing all day. Leaving my safe area means becoming exposed due to the unbridled towers around me. I am a very private person. This is not easy to share, but if I do not ask for help now, many more innocent people will be sick, or they will die like my neighbors, my friends, and my animals. Since the towers went live, six of my horses have died instantly under the towers. All of my little animals have died. My 200-pound tortoises started going blind. I'm not sure where the daily radiation exposure will take me, so I thought now is the best time to ask for your help in making a change. THE FCC MUST REGULATE THE RADIATION, OR THE DEATH & DESTRUCTION WILL NEVER END. Technology is safe only if it is REGULATED. Always, Shari Champagne

My biggest concern is the law enforcement surrounding RF and EMF. I have recorded illegal levels in my home. When a plane crashes does the black box tell us what EMF or RF was present? It should! I think this study is a big step in the right direction, but we must police it as well.