It is proposed to make the New Zealand Standard and Guideline for Cell Site public exposures of Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation guidelines based on the
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) guideline.
The ICNIRP guidelines and scientific assessment is published in Health Physics, Vol. 74
(4), p 494-522. This is the primary source document for this critique and will be referred to
as ICNIRP 1998.
The ICNIRP assessment of effects, ICNIRP (1998) has been review and found to be
seriously and fatally flawed, with a consistent pattern of bias, major mistakes, omissions
and deliberate misrepresentations. Adopting it fails to protect public health from known
potential and actual health effects and hence is unlawful according to the requirements of
the Resource Management Act. Public health protection should be the objective of this
process and this should be based on the identification of the Lowest Observed Adverse
Effect Level, (LOAEL) and a reasonable safety factor to take into account the uncertainties
and vulnerable members of the community.[Show full abstract]
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