Criticism of the health assessment in the ICNIRP guidelines for radiofrequency and microwave radiation (100 kHz - 300 GHz)
Abstract
Dr Cherry was invited by the Ministry of Health/ Ministry for the Environment of New
Zealand to carry out a peer-review of the proposal to adopt the ICNIRP guidelines for cell
sites in New Zealand, in November 1999. The ICNIRP guidelines were covered by a
published assessment in 1998. This review shows that the assessment had ignored all
published studies showing chromosome damage. It was highly selective, biased and very
dismissive of the genotoxic evidence and the epidemiological evidence of cancer effects
and reproductive effects. The assessment gives the strong impression of being
predetermined in the belief that the only effects were from high exposures that cause
electric shocks and acute exposures that cause tissue heating. For, example, they cite
two studies saying that they do not show any significant increased effects of Brain/CNS
cancer from microwave exposures when the actual published papers, Grayson (1996)
and Beall et al. (1996), both do show significant increases of Brain/CNS cancer.... [Show full abstract]
Keywords
RF-thermal view; Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR); human biometeorology; ICNIRP guidelines; cell phone sites; public health protection standards; biological effects; RF radiation; microwave radiationDate
2002-09Type
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