Exposure limits & oversight

I believe I may have already submitted a comment but I wanted to be sure as this may be a different submission. I have been dealing with sensitivity to cell phones for the past 9 years- as I’m a Registered Dental Hygienist and was also feeling pain in my face and neck when I took radiographs. I resigned from hygiene and started a new position selling dental supplies. For the last 7 or so years I have been better as I haven’t been taking radiographs. Up until Aug of this year- when I moved into a “newer” apartment home and had to move because the home was making me so sick. I have since moved again, and now am being affected by the smart meter on the home. I feel healthy and well when I’m in spaces that don’t have smart meters on them. I am a 44 year old woman and otherwise healthy. I’m on NO prescription meds, and feel incredibly well when I stay away from the heavy hitters of EMF. I’m very worried about my future- and I sure hope that soon I can have the option to opt out of the smart meter on my home because soon I may not be able to live anywhere and feel good. I’m a career woman who enjoys working and taking care of my family but this has been a daunting experience and again I’m incredibly worried about my future and health. Please please help us and create some kind of safety net for individuals who are sensitive!

Please limit electromagnetic radiation to the American public! I am especially concerned about 5g, why it was essentially secreted into being with no public comment whatsoever and waiving all liability to these companies. Very curious indeed and scary too. Sadly it is back room maneuvers like this this that make me believe the government does not care about the citizens, their health, human rights, or their voice. Please do something to change my mind. Thank you, Nicole Glasser

Should we continue getting EMF radiation on all of ourselves? How will this help the human race in any way or shape or form? Why are we poisoning our entire species of humans? Make it stop

We are reaching out because our family desperately needs help. My husband and I are raising our five children on a 160-acre horse farm in Amish country that we have spent the last 20 years of our married life building. It’s a third-generation family property, a dream we’ve poured our hearts, finances, and countless hours into, hoping to pass it down for generations to come. We live a very simple life, eat clean healthy food, don’t vaccinate and grow most of our own food. But there’s one heartbreaking problem. We have a heavily equipped 5G cell tower practically in our backyard, with another tower just half a mile away. What originally started as a simple 2G tower has since been upgraded and expanded into a heavily loaded 5G tower. Within about a year of living here, we began experiencing unusual health problems. Over time, those problems have escalated, and now multiple members of our family are battling serious illnesses and difficult-to-diagnose conditions. After years of searching for answers and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars pursuing treatment and healing, we began looking more closely at our environment and the possibility that our health issues could be connected to prolonged exposure to high levels of electromagnetic radiation. We eventually hired a professional to test our home, and according to the exposure guidelines used in their assessment, the readings in our bedrooms were seven times higher than what they considered safe. We contacted the tower company, hoping they might be willing to install shielding, a deflector, or explore some other way to reduce the exposure to our home. Unfortunately, we have gotten nowhere. We have also been working with an attorney to explore whether there is any way out of the existing tower contract, but so far, we have been told there is no way to terminate it. And now we find ourselves facing something we never imagined: the possibility of having to walk away from the home and farm we have spent our entire married life building. This isn’t just a house to us. It’s our family’s history, our livelihood, our children’s memories, and the dream we had of watching future generations grow up here. We cannot say with certainty that the towers are responsible for every health condition our family is experiencing, but the concerns are serious enough that we no longer feel comfortable continuing to live here. After everything we’ve invested in this property, and everything we’ve spent trying to regain our health, the thought of leaving is absolutely heartbreaking. So we are asking for help. Is there anyone with experience in cell tower contracts, RF exposure mitigation, telecommunications law, or situations like ours who might be able to offer guidance? We are not looking for a fight. We are simply a family trying to protect our health while holding on to the home and legacy we’ve worked so hard to build. If there is a way to make our home a place where we feel safe raising our children again, we desperately want to find it. We would be incredibly grateful for any connections, resources, or direction you could offer. Thank you for taking the time to hear our story.

I am writing to provide feedback regarding my firsthand health experiences with RF/EMF exposure. Thank you to the HHS for seeking the feedback of individuals, as the current framework for regulating wireless radiation completely ignores the real-world biological experiences of sensitive populations. I have had numerous clear, neurological symptoms that are reliably triggered or exacerbated by heavy exposures of RF/EMF. Specifically, when subjected to elevated wireless environments, I experience a disturbing "foggy head" sensation that makes it difficult to concentrate. Furthermore, I have a long clinical history of migraines with aura. While I have multiple environmental triggers, I have identified heavy doses of EMF as a distinct trigger for these. In our home, we take steps to reduce our exposure, but it has become hard to avoid. The current safety guidelines enforced by the FCC offer no protections for individuals like me, or citizens with concerns, in general. The FCC’s standards, established in 1996, rely entirely on a narrow thermal paradigm. These guidelines assume that wireless radiation is only harmful if it is intense enough to literally heat human tissue. The cognitive fog and migraines I have experienced have occurred at exposure levels below this thermal threshold. This is clear evidence that the federal government's current stance fails to recognize or account for non-thermal biological mechanisms. Low-intensity, chronic RF/EMF exposure exerts systemic, non-thermal biological stress on the human nervous and vascular systems, which directly manifests as neurological symptoms in sensitive individuals, and likely is negatively effecting a lot more people in ways that are not understood. There have been studies linking chronic exposures to elevated blood sugar levels and increased insulin resistance. It also may impact human quality of sleep. These are all huge issues. The HHS should abandon the outdated 1996 thermal-only standard and to develop safety limits that protect citizens from chronic, low-intensity, non-thermal biological and neurological impacts. It should also immediately investigate the specific biological pathways linking RF/EMF exposure to central nervous system disruptions, including focusing on its role as an environmental trigger for migraines, blood-brain barrier permeability, cognitive fog, insulin resistance, and disturbances in sleep patterns. There have already been some studies on these issues, that the relevant government agencies seem to ignore. The FCC, that has commercial deployment goals, should not be the only department to regulate the wireless industry. There needs to be more control given to local populations to say no to continually increasing the population’s exposure to EMF/RF with more and more towers flooding people’s homes and workplaces. Also of concern are the ever increasing number of products used in the home that use and issue wireless radiation (the IoT), including baby monitors and home appliances. We are now in cars loaded with EMF/RF. And, of course, the now pervasive smart meters that emit radiation, not once a month, for billing purposes, but often every 15 minutes, and in some places practically continually. It is grotesque how callously this has and is all rolled out with so little understood about the impacts on human health.

Before installation of 4G cell towers in the Netherlands I was not sensitive to wireless electromagnetic radiation, apart from continuous hearing of a high frequency sound. This changed when a cell tower was installed at 300 m distance of our house. We defended our house with black paint,curtains with iron thread, aluminum foil and fine-mesh iron fencing, disconnecting wifi, and using only cable connections. These measures helped for being safely at home for a while. In 2024 when 5G was installed I unfortunately became extremely sensitive for this radiation by cell towers, wifi, blue-tooth and mobile phones. I had to leave our church with a cell tower at a distance of 50 m. With my broadband RF meter "Safe and Sound Pro II" I discovered that too much radiation now entered our house despite our protection measures. The density of cell towers in Holland is so high that there are few places with low radiation and we could not find another affordable house at a safe place. We had no other option than to move to another country. In Hungary we found a small village where the radiation is almost zero in one of the streets where we bought a house to live in since last November. But health problems are not over yet. When going to other places here for shopping etc. I must have my cap and belt around my neck with silver thread on in order to protect myself, but even then I suffer often from nasty symptoms. The radiation is also tricky in that I usually don't experience its effects immediately and that the first symptoms are mild. When I have been in an environment with high radiation for a longer time, more heavy symptoms may continue afterwards for the rest of the day and sometimes even the next day, like continuous head pressure, headache, dizziness, fatigue, sleepiness, oppression on my throat, etc. A complete list of symptoms that I experienced since 4G was installed, I have added as a supporting document. The 27 symptoms are more than half of the about 40 known symptoms due to wireless radiation. Most people are already so addicted to their mobile phone, that it is nearly impossible to avoid the radiation when meeting others. Of course I do not and can not use a mobile phone, but my wife has one for necessary things. When she is using her phone, I had to go to another room in order not to become sick (she now works with a cable connection with her mobile phone). It is awful and completely unnecessary that mobile phones are obligatory for more and more activities, especially public authorities. I find it really criminal that the level of wireless radiation has been raised so high in the Western world. It is completely unnecessary, for wireless telecom is working also very well at much lower levels and with less frequencies. In Russia and China they use now levels that are about 100 times less than in de West. It is well-known that high levels of wireless radiation may kill people and can be used as a bio-weapon. Not only humans, also all living creatures suffer from this radiation. There is enormous scientific evidence that many insect species (like bees), but also many other animals become extinct in areas with a lot of radiation, especially in the neighborhood of cell towers and radar. Also plants are suffering and dying, for instance by smart electricity meters. The warming up of the atmosphere partly will be due to all the energy that is pumped in the air by wireless radiation. Wireless electromagnetic radiation is in fact completely unnecessary and should be stopped completely in order to restore the life conditions on our planet. The existing national and international exposure standards and guidelines, for instance from ICNIRP and FCC are outdated. ICNIRP is an organization with members of the telecom industry or connected with it. It is not an independent organization and its members are not democratically chosen. They neglect and deny all effects that are not thermal. The height of radiation that they think is safe, is much too high and is not based on sound scientific research. The publications on which they base their conclusions are corrupt and are funded by telecom and government organizations which are prejudiced and biased. P.S. Insects, other animals and plants abound in the area where we live now.

We are exposed to unacceptable levels of EMF short-wave pollution. People have experienced headaches, dizziness, inability to function, fatigue, heart issues, insomia,tumors, cancer and more. These cell towers with 5G and other toxic EMF exposures are sick. Even it you do not experience the above knowingly, you are still exposed and building health issues. Wildlife, which includes plants are also negatively affected. In other words, life itself is attacked by these EMF non-ionizing radiation. The concept that only heat generates injury was incorrect. There are safe ways to improve communication, such as fiber optics. In 1996 Pres. Clinton exempted the communication industry from health, safety and environmental issues connected to this industry. That non-regulation needs to be stopped. This industry is out-of-control. Cell towers are built near schools, which is an absolute travesty. We are entitled to a safe environment without rogue industries such as the above operating unregulated, immune to lawsuits for the health and environmental destruction they cause. I appreciate your concern for the public. Another issue involves geo-engineering. The public is now noticing the obvious spraying of chemicals and maybe more in the atmosphere. Whatever is sprayed is pulled down to the earth via gravity. A life on the planet is adversely harmed, and we are seeing the results. We are told the spraying is for ameliorating "climate change", which makes no sense. This spraying needs to be stopped. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I appreciate the Department of Health and Human Services' decision to examine the scientific evidence regarding electromagnetic fields (EMFs), radiofrequency (RF) radiation, and wireless radiation exposure. I strongly encourage HHS to approach this issue with scientific rigor, transparency, and a commitment to protecting public health, particularly the health of children. Wireless technologies have become an integral part of everyday life. Children are exposed to wireless devices, Wi-Fi networks, cellular infrastructure, Bluetooth devices, and other sources of electromagnetic fields from an early age. As exposure becomes increasingly widespread, it is important that our understanding of potential long-term health effects keeps pace with technological development. I respectfully ask HHS to prioritize the following areas: 1. Independent, long-term research Support well-designed, independent research into the potential short-term and long-term health effects of RF radiation and other relevant EMF exposures. Research should include long-term exposure, cumulative exposure from multiple sources, and potential effects that may not become apparent for many years. Funding and potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed transparently. 2. Protection of children and other potentially vulnerable populations Children should be a priority in research and public health policy. Their bodies are still developing, and their lifetime exposure may be substantially longer than that of today's adults. Research should specifically examine age-related differences in exposure and susceptibility rather than assuming that findings from adult populations fully apply to children. 3. Reassessment of exposure standards HHS should evaluate whether existing exposure limits adequately reflect current scientific evidence, including research on long-term exposure and potential biological effects beyond established heating effects. Standards should be reviewed periodically as new evidence becomes available, with clear explanations of the scientific assumptions and uncertainties underlying them. 4. Real-world and cumulative exposure Research should reflect how people actually live, work, travel, and learn. People are exposed to multiple sources of EMFs and RF radiation throughout the day, including smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, cellular networks, wearable devices, wireless accessories, and vehicle electrical systems. Evaluations should consider the combined exposure patterns people experience in homes, schools, workplaces, public spaces, and vehicles, rather than assessing each source only in isolation. 5. Transparency and accessible public information Families deserve clear, accessible, evidence-based information about wireless radiation exposure. HHS should provide practical guidance on exposure sources, the strength and limitations of the available evidence, areas of scientific uncertainty, and reasonable steps people can take to reduce unnecessary exposure if they choose to do so. Public guidance should neither dismiss legitimate questions nor create unnecessary fear. 6. A precautionary approach and exposure reduction Where meaningful scientific uncertainty remains, HHS should consider the precautionary principle and the concept of keeping exposure as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA), where appropriate and supported by the evidence. Practical measures that reduce unnecessary exposure without compromising essential communication or access to technology should be evaluated. Such measures may be particularly relevant in schools, childcare facilities, and other environments where children spend extended periods. The absence of conclusive evidence of harm should not be interpreted as proof that every possible long-term effect has been ruled out. Equally, potential risks should be investigated carefully rather than assumed. Public policy should distinguish established findings from preliminary results and unanswered questions. I urge HHS to conduct a comprehensive, independent, and transparent review of the available evidence, identify important research gaps, and develop clear, evidence-based recommendations that put public health first. Technological progress and public health protection should go hand in hand. Families should not have to choose between participating in modern life and having access to reliable information about potential environmental exposures. HHS has an important opportunity to advance scientific understanding, improve public confidence, and help ensure that decisions about wireless technology are informed by the best available evidence and an appropriate commitment to protecting future generations. Thank you for considering this comment.

The public deserves full transparency about the potential health effects of wireless radiation and 5G technology. People cannot make informed decisions when the risks, uncertainties, and long-term effects are not clearly communicated. We need independent research, stronger public health protections, and honest, accessible disclosure of the science. Public health and informed consent must come before convenience and corporate interests. Families deserve answers, transparency, and the right to understand the potential risks of the technology surrounding them.

Elderly, fixed income. Smart meter installed, without our consent or permission - we heard banging on the side of the house. Three weeks later, full body rash, extreme itching, which has persisted for seven months now. Requested removal, and replacement with non-smart meter, they (Great Lakes Energy) are demanding $50 per month, $600 a year, which we can not afford. No one will help us.