EU-kommissionen har noterat att elektromagnetiska fält i samhället har ökat de senaste åren på grund av utbyggnaden av telekommunikationer och har därför uppdragit åt en arbetsgrupp att se över Kommissionens senaste ställningstagande från år 2001. Denna arbetsgrupp har skrivit en preliminär rapport, se länk


Därefter har man begärt in yttrande över detta utkast. Här nedan följer Folket Viljas yttrande till EU-kommissionens remiss över:

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"Possible effects of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) on Human Health"

Competence of members of the working group.

Anders Ahlbom and René de Seze are members of the organisation ICNIRP, which falsely call itself an “International Commission” in spite of the fact that this organization is a private club of self-appointed experts. ICNIRP does not allow official audit of its economy.

The Swedish chairman Anders Ahbom has no formal competence neither in Medicine nor in Biology nor in Physics.

Prof Mats-Olof Mattson has no formal competence in Medicine.

Which persons that have licence to work as a medical doctor in Sweden can be checked at the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, “Socialstyrelsen, Enheten för behörighets- och kompetensfrågor”, SE-106 30 Stockholm. E-mail: socialstyrelsen@socialstyrelsen.se

Dr Lena Hillert have worked as an scientific advisor for the Swedish Mobile Telephone company “TELIA” and are now participating in a project at the University at Uppsala, funded by Mobile Manufacturers Forum, which interest are not declared in the paper.


The Authors have systematically avoided studies that tells for health hazards.

For example:

1. Cognitive:

1.1)
Short-wave transmitter in Schwarzenburg, Schwitzerland, (Before 2001) This was an official Swiss „White-book“ that in two different studies showed that the transmitter disturbed sleep in a normal, i.e. not hypersensitive population.

Altpeter, E.S., Krebs, Th., Pfluger, D.H., von Kanel, J., Blattmann, R., et al., 1995: "Study of health effects of Shortwave Transmitter Station of Schwarzenburg, Berne, Switzerland". University of Berne, Institute for Social and Preventative Medicine, August 1995.

Under “discussion” says:

“A statistically highly significant excess was established in the more strongly exposed population in case of sleep disturbances and with regard to a number of health complaints such as nervosity, inner restlessness, limb and joint pains and general weakness and tiredness; these cannot be explained by characteristics of the examined groups with regard to such factors as age, sex, social and economical situations”.

And further:

”The question whether the observed sleep disturbances can be related to a biophysical mechanism or to psychological mechanism was examined intensively. It was possible to show under experimental conditions in which broadcasting activities had been stopped without previous notification of the examined persons; that a reduction of electromagnetic exposure was followed by an improvement of sleep quality as registered in the diary. This leads to the conclusion that the Transmitter has a direct (e.g. not only psychological) effect on sleep quality”.


1.2)
In France Santini et al studied people living near base station and found that they noted the following symptoms:
-Within 300 m tiredness
-Within 200 m headache, sleep disruption, discomfort
-Within 100 m irritability, depression, loss of memory, dizziness, libido decrease

R. Santini, P.Santini, J.M. Danze, P. Le Ruz, M. Seigne. ”Study of the health of people living in the vicinity of mobile base stations: 1. Influence of distance and sex”. Pathol Biol 2002; 50 : 369-73.

1.3)
This study has been criticized because the distance to the base station was left to the participants to estimate and for that the level of radiation was not measured.. However these results was repeated under more controlled circumstances by the Spanish team:

Enrique A. Navarro, J. Segura, M. Portoles, Claudio Gómez-Peretta de Mateo. “The Microwave Syndrome: A preliminary study in Spain”. Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 2, (2003).

1.4)
And recently also repeated in Austria:

Hutter HP, Moshammer H, Wallner P, Kundi M. Subjective symptoms, sleeping problems, and cognitive performance in subjects living near mobile base stations. Occup Environ Med, 2006 May; 63(5):307-13

1.5)
And again in Egypt by:

G. Abdel-Rassoul, O. Abou El-Fateh, M. Abou Salem, A. Michael, F. Farahat, M. El-Batanouny, E. Salem. “Neurobehavioral effects among inhabitants around mobile phone base stations”, NEUTOX-636.

1.6)
The Dutch research laboratory TNO found a number of symptoms already in test periods of 45 minutes.

TNO Report FEL03-C148. “Effects of Global Communication system radio-frequency fields on well Being and cognitive Functions of human subjects with and without subjective complaints” A.P.M. Zwamborn, S.h.J.A Vossen, B.J.A.M. van Leersum, M.A. Ouwens, W.N. Mäkel.

1.7)
This study is strongly supported by the following study that noted “Headache severity increased during exposure (max 50 minutes) and decreased immediately afterwards”:

Rubin GJ, Hahn G, Everitt BS, Cleare AJ & Wessely S. Are some people sensitive to mobile phone signals? Within-participants, double blind, randomised provocation study. British Medical Journal 2006;332:886-889.


2. Cancer:

2.1).
In 2004 was published a study on cancer frequency within a small area around one (later two) base station for GSM in the German town Naila. Under the period 1994-2004 the cancer frequency was trebled within a radius of 400 meter from the transmitters.

H. Eger, K.U. Hagen, B. Lucas, P. Vogel, H. Voit. Einfluss der räumlichen Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen auf die Krebsinzidens. Umwelt Medicin Gesellschaft, 17, 4/2004.

2.2).
In 2004 was published a study on cancer frequency around four radio stations in Korea that showed increased level of blood cancer:

Sue Kyung Park, Mina Ha, Hyung-Jun Im. Ecological study on residences in the vicinity of AM radio broadcasting towers and cancer death: preliminary observations in Korea. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 10.1007/s00420-004-0512-7.

2.3)
In order to investigate possible health hazard from mobile telephones, an extensive project called INTERPHONE have been started. Four studies have hitherto been published:

2.3.a A Swedish,
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 161(6):526-535; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi091 (2005). “Long-Term Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk”. Stefan Lönn, Anders Ahlbom, Per Hall, Maria Feychting.

Which show that the probability to get brain tumour after 10 years use of mobile telephones increase by 60-80% at the side nearest the telephone.

2.3.b A British:
Br J Cancer. 2005 Oct 3;93(7):842-8. Mobile phone use and risk of acoustic neuroma: results of the Interphone case-control study in five North European countries. Schoemaker MJ, Swerdlow AJ, Ahlbom A, Auvinen A, Blaasaas KG, Cardis E, Christensen HC, Feychting M, Hepworth SJ, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Lonn S, McKinney PA, Muir K, Raitanen J, Salminen T, Thomsen J, Tynes T.

Which show that the probability to get brain tumour after 10 years use of mobile telephones increase by 80% at the side nearest the telephone

2.3.c A German:
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwj068 (2006). “Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma (Interphone Study Group, Germany) Joachim Schüz, Eva Böhler, Gabriele Berg, Brigitte Schlehofer, Iris Hettinger, Klaus Schlaefer, Jürgen Wahrendorf, Katharina Kunna-Grass, and Maria Blettner.

Which show that the probability to get brain tumour after 10 years use of mobile telephones increase by 120%.

2.3.d A Danish:
Study has been published, but has too few long-time user to be conclusive.


2.4.a).
The Swedish scientists Lennart Hardell and Kjell Hansson Mild have recently pooled their earlier studies in two new reports:

Int J Onvol 28:509-518, 2006. “Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on use of cellular and cordless telephones and risk for benign brain tumours diagnosed during 1997-2003”.

Which show that the probability to get benign brain tumour after 10 years use of mobile telephones increase by:

For Nordic Mobile Telephone system 80%
For GSM 60%
For wireless telephones 40%

2.4.b) And.

Int Arch Occup Environ Health (2006) DOI 10.1007/s00420-006-0088-5. “Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on use of cellular and cordless telephones and risk for malignant brain tumours diagnosed in 1997-2003”.

Which show that the probability to get malign brain tumour after 2000 hours use of mobile telephones increase by:

För Nordic Mobile Telephone system. 490%
För GSM 270%
For wireless telephones 130 %

2.5)
The authors have not made any trend-analysis for time of exposure. This have been made by:
Michael Kundi. Gesundheitliche Auswirkungen der handy-Nutzung. Eine Ûbersicht die vorliegende Evidenz zur Frage der Kanzerogenität, der Fertilität und der Auswirkungen auf den kindlichen Organismus. Zentrum für Public Health der Medizinischen Universität Wien. 09.12.2005. (See Austrian health department)

Which shows in picture 2 at page 9 how cancer incidence increases by time of exposure.

In fact all studies that have stretched over a 10-year exposing period have shown harmful cancer effects. This information must be forwarded to the Commission!



Donald Forsberg
Chairman

Henrik Stephenson-Möller
Secretary


Skriven av System Administrator den 11/02/06