EMR Action Day

http://www.emractionday.org

Worldwide EMR Action Day aligns with Earth Day 2013 to protect the biological integrity of the natural world and all its inhabitants against unnatural Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR).  With this endeavour, people from around the planet join together to reduce harm from EMR and create a healthier life for all.

Man-made EMR is the only hazard that reaches every square centimetre of Earth’s surface at every moment, harming people, animals, insects and plant life. Electromagnetic pollution has been imposed upon us by military and industrial interests, with devastating health, environmental and social consequences.  From microwave (MW) and radio-frequency (RF) radiation to extremely low frequency (ELF) fields, sources include:

        • so-called ‘smart’ utility grids, meters and appliances
        • wireless internet (wi-fi), wi-max and their infrastructures
        • mobile phones and their antenna infrastructure on masts, rooftops and in disguised structures
        • cordless phones and their bases
        • microwave oven leakage
        • baby monitors and children’s RF-related toys
        • RF medical devices
        • RFID-embedded chips in people, animals, consumer products, and identity and credit cards
        • direct-energy and other EM weaponry
        • TV, radio and satellite broadcasts
        • radar and sonar
        • the electrical power grid, appliances and broadband over power lines (BPL)
        • fluorescent lights, including compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs)

While some man-made EMR sources are falsely marketed as ‘green’, they all independently produce adverse biological and health effects. The effects markedly worsen with prolonged exposure or when combined with additional EMR sources, chemical toxicants or metals. MW radiation intensities in urban areas can be over a trillion times higher than natural background levels.

All life is electromagnetic in function. From the symbiotic balance of wildlife ecosystems to the health of our internal cells and organs – especially the brain and heart – living systems depend on undisturbed electrical signaling processes. All creatures derive a sense of wellbeing from the Earth’s own Schumann Resonances and other natural fields, which have now been overwhelmed by man-made EMR.

Scientists and experts in policy and law, examining thousands of research studies, warn of immediate and long-term hazards and call for minimised exposures.  EMR Action Day provides support and information on sources, effects and solutions to communities and individuals in need.

Harmful EMR also includes ionising radiation from nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. We urge reduced exposures to all such sources including medical tests, treatments and wastes.

EMR Action Day proposes new choices for safer and lower energy consumption: hard-wiring and fibre-optics in homes, schools and workplaces; shielding materials; and safe White Zones and other EMR-free solutions. We engage people in minimising EMR exposures and reconnecting with their own natural biorhythms. By our judicial, legislative, media, artistic and other creative endeavours, we act to free humankind, defend public safety and restore electromagnetic harmony to the Earth.

Our focus is on solutions that benefit us all.

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Science

International Studies
Alzheimers

        • Greek Study Shows Regions of the Brain Related to Learning, Memory, Alzheimer’s Impacted by EMF
        • Presentation of Prof. Dominique Belpomme at 8th National Congress on Electrosmog, Berne, 2011

Attention Deficit Disorder

        • Greek Study Shows Regions of the Brain Related to Learning, Memory, Alzheimer’s Impacted by EMF

Brain Cancers, Acoustic Neuromas

        • Biggest ever mobile phone brain tumour study prompts alarm over dangers to children
        • Brain Tumor Pandemic—DNA Impacts from Mobile Phones Implicated in New Analysis
        • Brain tumors and salivary gland cancers among cellular telephone users.
        • Case-Control Study on Cellular and Cordless Telephones and the Risk for Acoustic Neuroma or Meningioma in Patients Diagnosed 2000–2003
        • Cell Phones and Risk of brain and acoustic nerve tumours: the French INTERPHONE case-control study
        • Cellular and Cordless Telephone Use and the Association with Brain Tumors in Different Age Groups
        • Cellular and cordless telephones and the risk for brain tumours
        • Cellular phone use and brain tumor: a meta-analysis.
        • Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Benign and Malignant Parotid Gland Tumors—A Nationwide Case-Control Study
        • Cellular telephone use and risk of acoustic neuroma.
        • Cellular-Telephone Use and Brain Tumors
        • Case-control study on the use of cellular and cordless phones and the risk for malignant brain tumours.
        • Cellular Telephone Use and Cancer Risk: Update of a Nationwide Danish Cohort
        • Cellular Telephones and Cancer—a Nationwide Cohort Study in Denmark
        • Cellular telephones and risk for brain tumors: a population-based, incident case-control study.
        • Childhood brain tumour risk and its association with wireless phones: a commentary.
        • Mobile phones cause brain tumours - more evidence
        • Wireless Phones and Brain Cancer- ISIS Report 22/06/11
        • Epidemiological evidence for an association between use of wireless phones and tumor diseases
        • Meta-analysis of long-term mobile phone use and the association with brain tumours.
        • Long-term use of cellular phones and brain tumours: increased risk associated with use for ≥10 years
        • Environmental risk factors for sporadic acoustic neuroma (Interphone Study Group, Germany).
        • Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in 5 North European countries.
        • Risk of brain tumours in relation to estimated RF dose from mobile phones: results from five Interphone countries
        • Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk of benign brain tumours diagnosed during 1997-2003.
        • Mobile phone use and risk of acoustic neuroma: results of the Interphone case-control study in five North European countries.
        • Mobile phone use and the risk of acoustic neuroma.
        • Mobile phone use, exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic field, and brain tumour: a case-control study
        • Meningioma and mobile phone use—a collaborative case-control study in five North European countries
        • Use of mobile phones in Norway and risk of intracranial tumours
        • Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma risk in Japan
        • Meta-analysis of mobile phone use and intracranial tumors.
        • Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: case-control study.
        • Long-term mobile phone use and brain tumor risk.
        • Handheld Cellular Telephone Use and Risk of Brain Cancer
        • Use of cellular telephones and the risk for brain tumours: A case-control study.
        • Trends in incidence of brain and central nervous system tumors in Norway, 1970-1999.

Breast cancer

        • Ecolog Report - Mobile Telecommunications and Health
        • The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer

Cancers

        • Cancer morbidity in subjects occupationally exposed to high frequency (radiofrequency and microwave) electromagnetic radiation.

        • Ecolog Report - Mobile Telecommunications and Health

        • The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer

        • 900 MHz (GSM) exposure from base stations (residential proximity) and correlation with cancer

        • The Sensitivity of Children to Electromagnetic Fields

        • Living near overhead high voltage transmission power lines as a risk factor for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a case-control study.

        • Long-term (up to 20years) effects of 50-Hz magnetic field exposure on blood chemistry parameters in healthy men

        • Childhood Leukaemia

        • EMFs and childhood leukaemia

        • Leukaemia risk and ultrasound

        • Increased mortality in amateur radio operators due to lymphatic and hematopoietic malignancies

Cardio-vascular diseases

        • Bortkiewicz et al, 2004 (Poland): Residents close to mobile phone masts reported more incidences of circulatory problems, sleep disturbances, irritability, depression, blurred vision and concentration difficulties the nearer they lived to the mast.
        • Cardiac Effetcs Review
        • Ecolog Report - Mobile Telecommunications and Health

Cell death

        • Analyzing the health impacts of modern telecommunications microwaves
        • Bioeffects of mobile telephony radiation in relation to its intensity or distance from the antenna
        • Cell death induced by GSM 900-MHz and DCS 1800-MHz mobile telephony radiation

Depressive mood disturbances, lethargy, appetite disturbances

        • Mobile Telecommunications in Kempten West Blood levels alarmingly altered
        • Subjective symptoms, sleeping problems, and cognitive performance in subjects living near mobile phone base stations

DNA damage

        • Cell death induced by GSM 900-MHz and DCS 1800-MHz mobile telephony radiation
        • Bioeffects of mobile telephony radiation in relation to its intensity or
distance from the antenna
        • Analyzing the health impacts of modern telecommunications microwaves

Electrosensitivity

        • Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: evidence for a novel neurological syndrome
        • Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: Fact or fiction?
        • Electrosensitivity: A Patient with Burn-like Skin Manifestations
Epilepsy

        • An experimental set-up for measurement of the power absorbed from 900 mhz gsm standing waves by small animals, illustrated by application to picrotoxin-treated rats
Immune disfunction, chronic allergic responses and inflammatory responses

        • Confirmation studies of Soviet research on immunological effects of microwaves: Russian immunology results.
        • Autoimmune Process after Long-Term Low-Level Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields

Impaired Fertility

        • Male infertility linked to cell phone emf exposure
        • Wi-Fi radiation may affect male fertility
        • Pathophysiology of cell phone radiation: oxidative stress and carcinogenesis with focus on male reproductive system.
        • Preliminary study on the induction of sperm head abnormalities in mice, Mus musculus, exposed to radiofrequency radiations from global system for mobile communication base stations.
        • Effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic waves (RF-EMW) from cellular phones on human ejaculated semen: an in vitro pilot study.
        • In vitro effect of pulsed 900 MHz GSM radiation on mitochondrial membrane potential and motility of human spermatozoa.
        • Is there a relationship between cell phone use and semen quality?
        • Effect of cell phone usage on semen analysis in men attending infertility clinic: an observational study.
        • Evaluation of the effect of using mobile phones on male fertility.
        • Effects of exposure to a mobile phone on testicular function and structure in adult rabbit.
        • Cancer morbidity in subjects occupationally exposed to high frequency (radiofrequency and microwave) electromagnetic radiation.

Lung cancer and cancer of the respiratory organs

        • Ecolog Report - Mobile Telecommunications and Health

Mechanisms

Mechanisms contributing to the above effects have been established in science, including the following:

        • Breaches of the blood-brain barrier, allowing toxins into the brain
        • Reduction in melatonin, linked with sleep disturbance, depression and cancer, especially breast cancer
        • Single and double-strand DNA breaks, linked with many illnesses including cancer
        • Synthesis of stress proteins, associated with cancers and other illnesses
        • Disruption of circadian rhythms

Melanoma

        • Melanoma Incidence and Frequency Modulation (FM) Broadcasting

Neurological and behavioural effects

        • Neurobehavioral effects among inhabitants around mobile phone base stations
        • A Basic Summary of the Neurological Effects of Radiofrequency Sickness
        • Fetal Radiofrequency Radiation Exposure From 800-1900 Mhz-Rated Cellular Telephones Affects Neurodevelopment and Behavior in Mice

Pre-natal damage, miscarriages, birth defects

        • Maternal occupational exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields and the risk of brain cancer in the offspring.
        • Prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phone use and behavioral problems in children.
        • Fetal and neonatal responses following maternal exposure to mobile phones.
        • Effect of electromagnetic field emitted by cellular phones on fetal heart rate patterns
        • Miscarriages among Female Physical Therapists Who Report Using Radio - and Microwave-frequency Electromagnetic Radiation
        • Bone morphogenetic protein expression in newborn rat kidneys after prenatal exposure to radiofrequency radiation
        • Effects of prenatal exposure to a 900 MHz electromagnetic field on the dentate gyrus of rats: a stereological and histopathological study.
        • Uteroplacental circulatory disturbance mediated by prostaglandin F2α in rats exposed to microwaves
        • Nonthermal effects of mobile-phone frequency microwaves on uteroplacental functions in pregnant rats

Testicular and Uterine Cancer

        • Ecolog Report - Mobile Telecommunications and Health

Thyroid and hormone disruption

        • Evaluation of rat thyroid gland morphophysiological status after three months exposure to 50 Hz electromagnetic field
*Pulse modulated 900 MHz radiation induces hypothyroidism and apoptosis in thyroid cells: A light, electron microscopy and immunohistochemical study
        • Eskander_et_al_2011

Tinnitus

        • Tinnitus and mobile phone use

Cell mast/ tower studies
        • Who-emf_database_2006.pdf
        • Influence_of_being_physically_near_to_a_cell_phone_transmission_masts.pdf
        • Barrie_Trower_declaration.pdf
        • Increased_incidence_cancer_near_israeli_cellmast.pdf
        • Bamberg_appeal_signed_by_doctors_in_germany.pdf
        • Hallberg_2002_-_estonia-melanoma_incidence_and_frequency_modulatio.pdf
        • Blake_Levit-henry_lai.pdf
        • Specific_symptoms__radiation_from_mobile_basis_stations_german_study.pdf
        • Netherlands__-_effects_of_of_global_commun_system_radio-frequency_field.pdf
        • Microwave_syndrome-_a_preliminary_study_in_spain.pdf
        • Mobile_phone_base_stationseffects_on_wellbeing__health.pdf
        • Neurobehavioral_effects_among_inhabitants_around__base_stations.pdf
        • Brazil_new_study_direct_link_to_4924_cancer_deaths.pdf

Key Documents

Dr Magda Havas

        • Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Biological Effects of Dirty Electricity with Emphasis on Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis
        • Analysis of Health and Environmental Effects of Proposed San Francisco Earthlink Wi-Fi Network
        • wi-fi in libraries
        • wi-fi in schools
        • High Electricity Bills and Cell Phone Antennas

Prof. Olle Johansson

        • Electrohypersensitivity
        • Eskander_et_al_2011
        • EVIDENCE FOR EFFECTS ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Dr George Carlo

        • George Carlo letter to Eileen O’connor
        • A Letter Bomb for the Mobile Phone Industry?

Dr Andrew Goldsworthy

        • Electromagnetically-induced cell leakage may cause autism
        • On the dangers of wi-fi
        • Andrew Goldsworthy witness statement

Prof. Henry Lai

        • Biological effects from exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell tower base stations and other antenna arrays
        • Wake-up call

Robert C. Kane, Ph.D.

        • On second hand rf radiation
Barrie Trower

        • Declaration of Barrie Trower-United States District Court ,District of Oregon ,Portland Division
        • Barry Trower address to welsh assembly
        • Letter by Barrie Trower on modulations and pulsing

Secret Intelligence Document

USA Secret Intelligence Document

Dr Carl Blackman

        • Cell phone radiation: Evidence from ELF and RF studies supporting more inclusive risk identification and assessment
Dr. med. Gerd Oberfeld

        • Environmental Medicine Evaluation of Electromagnetic Fields

More key documents

        • Analyzing the health impacts of modern telecommunications microwaves
        • Andrew Michrowski - electromagnetic fields
        • Autism may be Linked to Electromagnetic Radiation Levels In Mother’s Bedroom During Pregnancy
        • Bacterial response to the exposure of 50 Hz electromagnetic fields.
        • BEES, BIRDS AND MANKIND - Destroying nature by “electrosmog”
        • Bioeffects of mobile telephony radiation in relation to its intensity or distance from the antenna
        • Bioinititiative Summary
        • Brain proteome response following whole body exposure of mice to mobile phone or wireless DECT base radiation.
        • Cell death induced by GSM 900-MHz and DCS 1800-MHz mobile telephony radiation
        • Changes in honeybee behaviour and biology under the influence of cellphone radiations
        • Effect of 900 MHz Radio Frequency Radiation on Beta Amyloid Protein, Protein Carbonyl, and Malondialdehyde in the Brain.
        • Electromagnetic fields and public health - Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
        • Fetal Radiofrequency Radiation Exposure From 800-1900 Mhz-Rated Cellular Telephones Affects Neurodevelopment and Behavior in Mice
        • Histological studies of the low frequency electromagnetic fields effect on liver, testes and kidney in Guinea Pig
        • Increased occurrence of nuclear cataract in the calf after erection of a mobile phone base station
        • Kinetic study on the effects of extremely low frequency electromagnetic field on catalase, cytochrome P450 and inducible nitric oxide synthase in human HaCaT and THP-1 cell lines.
        • Long-term (up to 20years) effects of 50-Hz magnetic field exposure on blood chemistry parameters in healthy men.
        • Mobile phone base stations—Effects on wellbeing and health
        • Mobile phone health risks: The case for action to protect children
        • Mobile telephony radiation effects on living organisms
        • Mobile telephony radiation effects
        • Netherlands - effects of global communication system radio-frequency fields on well-being and cognitive functions of human subjects
        • Neurobehavioral effects among inhabitants around mobile phone base stations
        • Oxidative stress and prevention of the adaptive response to chronic iron overload in the brain of young adult rats exposed to a 150 kilohertz electromagnetic field.
        • Power-frequency magnetic fields and childhood brain tumors: a case-control study in Japan
        • Prof. Dominique Belpomme - Electrosmog
        • RNCNIRP Resolution 2011 - Electromagnetic fields from mobile phones: health effect on children and teenagers
        • Scientific Panel on Electromagnetic Field Health Risks: Consensus Points, Recommendations, and Rationales
        • Single-strand DNA breaks in human hair root cells exposed to mobile phone radiation.
        • Stimulation and control of e. coli by using an extremely low frequency magnetic field
        • Talking to your doctor - Symptoms, Biological Effects of EMR/EMF Exposure and Treatment
        • The Influence of Being Physically Near to a Cell Phone Transmission Mast on the Incidence of Cancer
        • The influence of microwave radiation from cellular phone on fetal rat brain.
        • The Microwave Syndrome: A preliminary Study in Spain
        • The protective effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) on oxidative stress in rat liver exposed to the 900 MHz electromagnetic field.
        • The Seletun Report
        • Wi-Fi alters brain activity in young adults
        • Yakymenko cancer - long-term exposure to microwave radiation provokes cancer growth: evidences from radars and mobile communication systems

Wi-Fi studies

        • Effects of Wi-Fi signals on the p300 component of event-related potentials during an auditory hayling task
        • Wi-Fi alters brain activity in young adults

In vitro and in vivo genotoxicity of radiofrequency fields.

There has been growing concern about the possibility of adverse health effects resulting from exposure to radiofrequency radiations (RFR), such as those emitted by wireless communication devices.

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Local exposure of the rat cortex to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields increases local cerebral blood flow along with temperature.

Few studies have shown that local exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF) induces intensity-dependent physiological changes, especially in the brain. The aim of the present study was to detect reproducible responses to local RF exposure in the parietal cortex of anesthetized rats and to determine their dependence on RF intensity.

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Effects of extremely low-frequency magnetic field on growth and differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells, Electromagn Biol Med.

Eggs of Fasciola hepatica were exposed for 10 days to extremely low frequency magnetic field (ELFMF) at the frequency of 50 Hz and density of 2 mT (rms). The results show an accelerated hatching of F. hepatica eggs in relation to control (non-exposed) group.

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Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic Field Decreased Calcium, Zinc and Magnesium Levels in Costa of Rat.

Electromagnetic field (EMF) can affect cells due to biochemical change followed by a change in level of ions trafficking through membrane. We aimed to investigate possible changes in some elements in costa of rats exposed to long-term extremely low-frequency magnetic field (ELF-MF). Rats were exposed to 100 and 500 μT ELF-MF, which are the safety standards of public and occupational exposure for 2 h/day during 10 months.

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Sleep after mobile phone exposure in subjects with mobile phone-related symptoms.

Several studies show increases in activity for certain frequency bands (10-14 Hz) and visually scored parameters during sleep after exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. A shortened REM latency has also been reported.

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Scientists Urge Halt of Wireless Rollout and Call for New Safety Standards: Warning Issued on Risks to Children and Pregnant Women

Clinical & Hygienic Aspects of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields.

The early research was taken very seriously in the US and in Russia. And then it was put in a room and the door was closed during the Cold War years. This entire area was considered a threat to national security, with shades of mind control lurking in some circles, including the microwaving of the US embassy in Moscow. There were several commissions set up to investigate, including The Tri-Service Commission with reps from the Us Air Force, Army & Navy. We see the reverberations still today.

Keep Reading

Brief synopsis of the dangers of emf’s and mobile phone masts and how they can affect our health

Currently The National Radiation Protection Board (NRPB) produce guidelines (set in 1993) which provide us with supposedly safe levels of radiation - levels, however, which are considerably higher than other countries where research into this subject has led to a number of scientists and scientific bodies significantly reducing their exposure levels. The magnitude of the gulf in thinking between the NRPB and other scientific bodies/governments is alarming. It is difficult to imagine how the NRPB can continue to maintain that an investigative exposure level of 10000W/cm2 (100W/m2) is safe when in 1995 the New Zealand Environment Court (as the Planning Tribunal) in the case of MacIntyre vs. BellSouth set a level of 2W/cm2 as a precautionary approach - a level 5000 times less than that set by the NRPB! Keep Reading

Radar
People first became exposed to the radiofrequency radiation that radar equipment emits in the 20th century. Radar was primarily used by the military at first, but in peace-time, radar emissions have been mainly from airports and seaports, with some Ministry of Defence establishments adding to local environmental exposure.

Radar emissions travel some considerable distance in order to communicate with their intended recipients (aeroplanes, ships, control towers, etc). The power is high at transmission to carry such distances, and in fact only fall to levels of 1 V/m at the following distances (all approximate, and assuming free-space radiation):

1.0 kW DME on aircraft and at airfields 210 m
25 kW marine radars (both fixed and ship-borne) 850 m
100 MW ship harbour radars 55 km
1 GW air traffic control and weather radars 170 km
10 GW some military radars 550 km Read more

Source: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/rf/radar.asp

Early Research

        • Navy radiowave brief 1 .pdf

        • This report concerns work that is part of a program of research on the effects of electromagnetic fields on living tissue conducted in collaboration with the Department of Anatomy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Keep reading