Selected
FCC Submissions re:
"Reassessment
of Federal Communications Commission Radiofrequency
Exposure
Limits and Policies" (Proceeding Number 13-84)
Part
III: 98 scientific experts who signed four resolutions submitted to the FCC
(Last
revision: 8-4-2014)
In response to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) request for
input regarding its radiofrequency radiation regulations adopted in
1996, more than 950 individuals and organizations submitted thousands of
testimonials, research papers and scientific publications. Almost all
of these submissions supported the need for stronger cell phone radiation
regulations.
The submissions included four resolutions signed by
scientific experts who have published research on wireless radiation and
health in scientific journals. The resolutions call on governments to
issue stronger regulations on wireless radiation, especially cell phone
radiation. The declarations were signed by 98 scientists* between 2002 and 2014.
(*unduplicated count)
The scientists were affiliated with more than forty universities and many governmental institutions located in 23 nations. Signees included two former presidents of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, an organization that "promotes the exchange of ideas to advance the science of natural and applied electromagnetic fields in biology and medicine."
Signees also included three editors-in-chief of professional research journals, scientists who worked in state health departments in California and Washington, the chairman of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, and a career scientist who worked in the US. Environmental Protection Agency where he conducted cutting-edge research on the carcinogenic effects of cellphone radiation in the 1990's until the Congress stopped the EPA from researching cellphone radiation health effects. (Hopefully, the EPA will be funded once again to conduct research wireless radiation safety and assume its responsibility to protect public health from this source of pollution.)
The following specialties are represented among the signees: animal science, behavioral neuroscience, biochemistry,
bioelectromagnetics, bioengineering, biophysics, cell biology, cell biophysics,
clinical pathology, dermatology, environmental engineering, environmental
health, environmental physics, environmental oncology, epidemiology, immunocytology,
medical oncology, molecular medicine, neurobiology, neurology, neuropharmacology,
neuroscience, neurosurgery, oncology, physiology, physiology & cellular
biophysics, quantum physics, and toxicology.
Links to the four resolutions appear below along with a list of signees and their affiliations.
Other scientific resolutions and petitions
Since 1997, twenty-two declarations have been signed by scientists and health professionals calling for stronger cell phone radiation regulations. See Dr. Magda Havas' website for a list of all 22 resolutions at http://bit.ly/XyeM46.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, a professional organization representing 60,000 physicians, sent a letter to the FCC and the FDA urging the FCC to adopt radiation standards that (http://bit.ly/17tQclg):
- "Protect children’s health and well-being ... Current FCC standards do not account for the unique vulnerability and use patterns specific to pregnant women and children. It is essential that any new standard for cell phones or other wireless devices be based on protecting the youngest and most vulnerable populations to ensure they are safeguarded throughout their lifetimes.
- Reflect current use patterns. The FCC has not assessed the standard for cell phone radiation since 1996 ... Many children, adolescents and young adults, now use cell phones as their only phone line and they begin using wireless phones at much younger ages. Pregnant women may carry their phones for many hours per day in a pocket that keeps the phone close to their uterus. Children born today will experience a longer period of exposure to radio-frequency fields from cellular phone use than will adults, because they start using cellular phones at earlier ages and will have longer lifetime exposures. FCC regulations should reflect how people are using their phones today.
- Provide meaningful consumer disclosure. The FCC has noted that it does not provide consumers with sufficient information about the RF exposure profile of individual phones to allow consumers to make informed purchasing decisions. The current metric of RF exposure available to consumers, the Specific Absorption Rate, is not an accurate predictor of actual exposure. AAP is supportive of FCC developing standards that provide consumers with the information they need to make informed choices in selecting mobile phone purchases, and to help parents to better understand any potential risks for their children. To that end, we support the use of metrics that are specific to the exposure children will experience."
The Environmental Working Group submitted to the FCC a petition signed by 26,000 residents of the U.S. (http://bit.ly/1s64BNv). The petition calls on the FCC to ...
- "Provide adequate protection for children's health -- accounting for their thinner skulls, smaller head size and developing brains.
- Reflect actual use patterns such as smartphone cases and phones carried directly against the body instead of in holsters.
- Provide meaningful consumer disclosure of cell phone radiation levels, without pre- empting states or local governments from requiring greater disclosure."
Signees of the four resolutions submitted to the FCC
Health
Canada Safety Code 6 Declaration (2014)
Franz Adlkofer,
MD, Pandora Foundation, Germany
Bahriye
Sırav Aral, ABD, Faculty of Medicine, Department of
Biophysics, Gazi University, Turkey
Fiorella
Belpoggi, MD, PhD, Director, Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center,
Ramazzini Institute, Italy
Dominique
Belpomme, MD, MPH, Professor, Medical Oncology, Paris University Hospital;
Director, European Cancer & Environment Research Institute, France
Martin
Blank, PhD, Special lecturer (ret.), Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, USA
Marie-Claire
Cammaerts, PhD, Faculty of Sciences, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Ayşe G.
Canseven, PhD, Medical Faculty, Biophysics Department, Gazi University, Turkey
David O. Carpenter, MD,
Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, USA
Simona
Carrubba, PhD, Daemen College, Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo
(Neurology), USA
Devra
Davis, PhD, MPH, President, Environmental Health Trust; Fellow,
American College of Epidemiology, USA
Adilza C.
Dode, PhD, MSc, Prof. EMF Pollution Control, Environmental Engineering Deparment, Minas
Methodist University, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Meric
Arda Esmekaya, PhD, Biophysics Department, Gazi University, Turkey
Arzu
Firlarer, MSc, PhD, Senior Researcher & Instructor, Occupational
Health and Safety Department, Baskent University, Turkey
Adamantia
F. Fragopoulou, MSc, PhD, Postdoc. Research Assoc., Dept. Cell Biology &
Biophysics, Biology Faculty, Univ. of Athens, Greece
Christos
Georgiou, PhD, Prof. Biochemistry, Biology Department, University of
Patras, Greece
Livio
Giuliani, PhD, Director of Research, Italian Health National Service,
Rome-Florenze-Bozen, Italy
Yury
Grigoriev, MD, Chairman, Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing
Radiation Protection, Russia
Settimio
Grimaldi, PhD, Associate Scientist, National Research Council, Italy
Claudio
Gómez-Perretta, MD, PhD, Hospital Universitario la fe Valencia, Spain
Lennart
Hardell, MD, PhD, University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden
Magda
Havas, PhD, Environmental and Resource Studies, Centre for Health
Studies, Trent University, Canada
Paul
Héroux, PhD, Director, Occupational Health Program, McGill University
Medical; InvitroPlus Labs., Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada
Donald
Hillman, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Animal Science, Michigan
State University, USA
Martha R.
Herbert, PhD, MD, Assisant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical
School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Tsuyoshi
Hondou, PhD, Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku
University, Japan
Olle
Johansson, PhD, Associate Professor, Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department
of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Florian
M. Koenig, DrSc, Director of Fl. König Enterprises GmbH, Sferics &
Meteorosensitivity Research Institute, Germering, Germany
Kavindra
Kumar Kesari, MBA, PhD; Research Scientist, Department of Environmental
Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Finland; Jaipur National University,
India
Girish Kumar, PhD,
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Bombay, India
Henry Lai, PhD,
University of Washington, USA; Editor, Electromagnetic
Biology and Medicine
Dariusz
Leszczynski, PhD, DSc, Editor-in-Chief: Frontiers in Radiation
and Health, Switzerland; Prof, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
Ying Li, PhD,
InVitroPlus Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Royal Victoria Hospital McGill
University Medicine, Canada
Wolfgang
Löscher, MD, Head, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University
of Veterinary Medicine; Center for Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany
Lukas H.
Margaritis, PhD, Prof. Emeritus, Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics,
Biology Faculty, University of Athens, Greece
Marko
Markov, PhD, Research International Buffalo, USA
Samuel
Milham, MD, MPH, Former Epidemiology Section Head, Washington State Department of Health and Adjunct Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Anthony
Miller, MD, Professor Emeritus, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
Hidetake
Miyata, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of
Science, Tohoku University, Japan
L. Lloyd
Morgan, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Health Trust, USA
Joel M.
Moskowitz, PhD, Director, Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California,
Berkeley, USA
Raymond
Richard Neutra, MD, MPH, DrPH, USA; former Chief, Division of Environmental and
Occupational Health, California Department of Health Services (retired)
Gerd
Oberfeld, MD, Speaker Environmental Medicine, Austrian Medical
Association; Public Health, Salzburg Government, Austria
Klaus-Peter
Ossenkopp, PhD, Department of Psychology (Neuroscience), University of
Western Ontario, Canada
Elcin
Ozgur, PhD, Biophysics Department, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine,
Turkey
Martin
Pall, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Basic Medical
Sciences, Washington State University, USA
Michael
A. Persinger, Professor, Behavioural Neuroscience, Biomolecular Sciences &
Human Studies, Laurentian University, Canada
Jerry L.
Phillips, PhD, Center for Excellence in Science, Prof, Dept. Chem. &
Biochem., University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
Timur
Saliev, MD, PhD, Life Sciences, Nazarbayev Univ., Kazakhstan; Institute
Medical Science/Technology, University of Dundee, UK
Alvaro
Augusto de Salles, PhD, Prof., Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto
Alegre, Brazil
Nesrin
Seyhan, Prof. Dr., Founding Chair, Biophysics Department, Medical Faculty, Gazi University; WHO EMF Advisory Committee, Turkey
Wenjun
Sun, PhD, Professor, Bioelectromagnetics Key Laboratory, Zhejiang
University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Mehmet Z.
Tuyzuz, PhD, Biophysics Department, Gazi University,Turkey
Dr. Lebrecht
von Klitzing, PhD, Head of Inst., Environmental Physics; Former Head, Clinical
Research, Medical University, Luebeck, Germany
Stelios A.
Zinelis, MD, Hellenic Cancer Society, Greece
Seletun
Scientific Panel (2009)
Adamantia Fragopoulou, PhD Cand.,
Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of
Athens, Athens, Greece
Yury Grigoriev, Professor, Dr of
Med Sci, Chairman of Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation
Protection, Moscow, Russian Federation
Olle Johansson, PhD, Professor, The
Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska
Institute, and The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Lukas H Margaritis, Professor,
Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of
Athens, Athens, Greece
L. Lloyd Morgan, Bioelectromagnetics
Society, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Elihu D Richter, MD, MPH, Professor,
Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hebrew University Hadassah
School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
Cindy
Sage,
MA, Sage Associates, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Benevento Resolution (2006)
Primary
signers
Fiorella
Belpoggi,
MD, PhD, European Foundation for Oncology & Environmental Sciences, Italy
Carl F. Blackman, PhD, President of
the Bioelectromagnetics Society (1990-1991); Environmental Carcinogenesis
Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-2014), Raleigh, USA
Martin
Blank,
PhD, Department of Physiology, Columbia University, New York, USA
Natalia
Bobkova,
PhD, Institute of Cell Biophysics, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russian Federation
Francesco
Boella,
PhD, National Institute of Prevention and Worker Safety, Venice, Italy
Zhaojin
Cao,
PhD, National Institute for Environmental Health & Related Product Safety,
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China; Editor, Journal of Hygiene Research
Enrico
D. Emilia,
PhD, National Institute for Prevention and Worker Safety, Monteporzio, Italy
Emilio
Del Giuduice,
Quantum Physicist, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Milan, Italy
(deceased)
Antonella
De Ninno,
PhD, Italian National Agency For Energy, Environment & Technology,
Frascati, Italy
Alvaro
A. De Salles,
BSc, MSc, PhD, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Livio Giuliani, PhD, East Veneto
& South Triol, National Institute for Prevention & Worker Safety,
Camerino University, Italy
Yury
Grigoryev,
MD, Institute of Biophysics, Chairman, Russian National Committee, NIERP,
Russian Federation
Settimo
Grimaldi,
PhD, Institute of Neurobiology & Molecular Medicine, National Research,
Rome, Italy
Lennart
Hardell,
MD, PhD, Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden
Magda
Havas,
PhD, Environmental & Resource Studies, Trent University, Ontario, Canada
Gerard
Hyland,
PhD, Warwick University, UK. International Institute of Biophysics, Germany; EM
Radiation Trust, UK
Olle
Johansson,
PhD, Neuroscience Department, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Michael
Kundi,
PhD, Head, Institute Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna,
Austria
Henry
C. Lai,
PhD, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Mario
Ledda,
PhD, Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, National Council for
Research, Rome, Italy
Yi-Ping
Lin,
PhD, Center of Health Risk Assessment & Policy, National Taiwan University,
Taiwan
Antonella
Lisi,
PhD, Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, National Research
Council, Rome, Italy
Fiorenzo
Marinelli,
PhD, Institute of Immunocytology, National Research Council, Bologna, Italy
Elihu
Richter,
MD, MPH, Head, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hebrew
University-Hadassah, Israel
Emanuela
Rosola,
Instit. of Neurobiology & Molecular Medicine, National Research Council,
Rome, Italy
Leif
Salford,
MD, Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Lund University, Sweden
Nesrin
Seyhan,
BSc, PhD, Head, Department of Biophysics; Director, Gazi NIRP Center, Ankara,
Turkey
Morando
Soffritti,
MD, Scientific Director, European Foundation for Oncology & Environmental
Sciences, B. Ramazzini, Bologna, Italy
Stanislaw
Szmigielski,
MD, Military Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Warsaw, Poland
Mikhail
Zhadin,
PhD Cand., Institute of Cell Biophysics, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russian
Federation
Additional signers
Igor Y. Belyaev, MSc, Department of Genetics,
Microbiology and Toxicology, Arrhenius Laboratories for Natural Sciences,
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
William J. Bruno, PhD, Theoretical
Biophysics, awarded by Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley,
California, USA
Mauro Cristaldi, Dip, B.A.U.
Universita degli Studi "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Suleyman Dasdag, PhD, Biophysics
Department of Medical School, Dicle University, Diyarbakir, Turkey
Sandy Doull, MPH, Consultant,
Noel Arnold & Associates, Box Hill VIC, Australia
Christos D. Georgiou, PhD, Associate Professor
of Biochemistry, Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece
Andrew Goldsworthy, BSc, PhD, Lecturer
in Biology (retired), Imperial College London, UK
Reba Goodman, PhD, Prof.
Emeritus, Clinical Pathology, Columbia University, New York, USA
Luisa Anna Ieradi, Istituto per lo
Studio degli Ecosistemi C.N.R., Rome, Italy
Michael Kundi, PhD, Head, Institute
Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Angelo Gino Levis, Professor Emeritus,
Environmental Oncology, Padua University, Italy
Lukas H. Margaritis, PhD, Professor of
Cell Biology and Radiobiology, Athens University, Athens, Greece
Vera Markovic, PhD, Faculty of
Electrical Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia
E. Stanton Maxey, MD, Fayetteville
Arkansas, USA (retired)
Gerd Oberfeld, Dr. Med, Federal
Salzburg Government. National Medical Management, Public Health Hygiene and
Environmental Health, Salzburg, Austria
Jerry L. Phillips, PhD, Professor, Science/Health
Science Learning Center, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado,
USA
Zamir Shalita, PhD, Consultant on
Electromagnetic Hazards, Ramat Gan, Israel
Sarah J. Starkey, PhD, Neuroscience,
University of London, London, United Kingdom
Ion Udroiu, Dip. B.A.U.,
Università degli Studi "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Mehmet Zeyrek, BSc, PhD, Prof.,
Physics Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Stelios A Zinelis, MD, Vice President,
Hellenic Cancer Society, Cefallonia, Greece
Anna Zucchero, MD, Internal
Medicine Department. Venice-Mestre Hospital, Venice, Italy
Catania Resolution (2002)
Carl F. Blackman, PhD, President of
the Bioelectromagnetics Society (1990-1991); Environmental Carcinogenesis
Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-2014), Raleigh, USA
Martin Blank, PhD, Department of
Physiology, Columbia University, New York, USA
Emilio Del Giudice, Istituto Nazionale
di Fisica Nucleare, Milano, Italy
Livio Giuliani, PhD, Camerino
University - ISPESL*, Venice, Italy
Settimio Grimaldi, PhD, CNR-Istituto
di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare, Rome, Italy
Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD, Department
of Oncology, University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden
Michael Kundi, PhD, Institute of
Environmental Health, University of Vienna, Austria
Henry Lai, PhD, Department of
Bioengineering, University of Washington, USA
Abraham R. Liboff, PhD, Department of
Physics, Oakland University, USA
Wolfgang Löscher, DVM, PhD, Department
of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy, School of Veterinary Medicine,
Hannover, Germany
Kjell Hansson Mild, PhD, President of
the Bioelectromagnetics Society (1996-1997), National Institute of Working
Life, Umea, Sweden
Wilhelm Mosgöller, Prof Dr, Institute
for Cancer Research, University of Vienna, Austria
Elihu D. Richter, MD, MPH, Head, Unit
of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Hebrew
University-Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel
Umberto Scapagnini, MD, PhD, Neuropharmacology,
University of Catania, Italy, Member of the Research Committee of the European
Parliament
Stanislaw Szmigielski, MD, Military
Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Warsaw, Poland
