From Americans for Responsible Technology: BREAKING
NEWS: Science and Public Health Organizations Demand the FDA Comply with the Law on Wireless Radiation |
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ART and other non-profits and individuals file legal petition with
FDA claiming the agency is flagrantly violating its own 1968 statute regarding radiation from wireless devices |
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(New York) A group of non-profit science and public health advocacy groups today filed a formal Citizens Petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), demanding that the agency comply with its own federal law (USC 360 ii "Program of
Control") which requires the agency to take certain specific actions to protect the public from unnecessary exposure to radiation from electronic products. The groups claim that the agency's failure to obey the law and carry out the stipulated activities violates its Congressional mandate and has increased the risk to all Americans. "This isn't complicated," says Doug Wood, founder and National Director of lead petitioner non-profit Americans for Responsible Technology. "The FDA has a clear and unambiguous legal obligation to carry out certain activities designed to reduce the public's exposure to radiation from all kinds of electronic products, including cell phones, routers, laptops, tablets, and wireless utility meters. FDA is ignoring the law as if it doesn't
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The law requires the FDA to evaluate how the public is exposed to radiation. Petitioners cite school classrooms where children are exposed all day long, or homes and apartments where wireless utility meters can emit high bursts of radiation as
examples of exposures that should be evaluated by FDA. Under the law, the agency is required to develop and promulgate techniques for reducing these exposures, but the petitioners claim no such techniques have been developed or promoted to the public.
The theory that non-thermal levels of radiofrequency radiation are harmless, which has been the basis for federal exposure standards for more than 25
years, has now been proven false by thousands of published, peer-reviewed studies, including the FDA's own 2016 study, which showed "clear evidence" of increased cancer risk as well as DNA damage from cell phone radiation.
A growing number of Americans are reporting physical symptoms from exposure which disappear when the source of radiation is removed. These include headaches, dizziness, nausea, insomnia,
tinnitus, lethargy and depression. The FDA has not acknowledged any risk or established any reporting mechanism for adverse exposure to RF radiation. |
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This week, Green Street News will feature a full program on the Petition. The podcast
will be available this Friday at www.GreenStreetNews.org. |
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Other petitioners include Grassroots Environmental Education, Consumers for Safe Cell Phones, California Brain Tumor Association, Manhattan Neighbors for Safer Communications, and a group of individuals who have suffered various kinds of negative financial, health, and emotional impacts because of the failure of the FDA to carry out its legal
obligations. "This is not an opinion or a disagreement over science," says attorney and twice Harvard Law School Visiting Mitsubishi Professor Julian Gresser who helped develop the Petition. "This is black letter law. Congress has recognized the serious risks to public health of non-ionizing radiation since 1968. FDA has a
clear and unequivocal mandate from Congress, and for more than fifty years the agency has simply pretended that the law doesn't exist. This violates the fundamental purpose of the nation's premiere public health agency. It is a deep civil and human rights issue." More information about the law and the petition is available
at www.Americans4RT.org/fda |
| Here is an update on the lawsuit filed against Apple and Samsung from the law firm Fegan Scott: You previously contacted us regarding the class action we filed against Apple and Samsung in which we alleged that the manufacturers knowingly subjected
smartphone users to radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic radiation levels in excess of mandated limits while misrepresenting the smartphone’s safety. We are writing to provide a final update. On October 29, 2020, the Court found that the legal claims interfered with the FCC’s authority and were thus preempted under federal law and dismissed the suit. On August 26, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the lawsuit on preemption grounds. Yesterday, the
United States Supreme Court denied our petition for certiorari (request for leave to appeal). Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s decision is final, and this litigation is now concluded. For more information on other class actions we are pursuing, we invite you to visit our website at www.feganscott.com. Tory Bergeson | Legal Assistant Fegan Scott LLC 1456 Sycamore Rd. Yorkville, IL 60560 Direct: 630.273.2625| Fax: 312.264.0100 www.feganscott.com Fair Housing Accessibility First - Training Opportunity DATE: 05/30/23 TIME: 10:00am - 11:30am (ET) -OR- 2:00pm - 3:30pm (ET) This curriculum provides a comprehensive look at all aspects of enforcement of the Fair Housing Act, as well as other disability rights laws. Not only will participants gather important information about enforcement processes and procedures, they will also learn typical defenses in Fair Housing Act cases and real-life investigation methods and techniques. What is Covered?- Overview of the
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Rhode Island Updates regarding "smart"
meters: - Here
are Sheila Ressiger's comments on the above article:
- Thank you, Steve Ahlquist, for
this post. Please also keep in mind that many people provided oral and written testimony to the RI PUC explaining why "Smart" Meters should not be deployed across RI in every home and business. This infrastructure imperils health, collects intimate data from every household and business, causes household appliances to malfunction, causes electrical fires, requires excess electrical energy to run, increases atmospheric CO2, and controls and unfairly monetizes consumers’ energy use. It is a
lose-lose proposition for RI, besides the huge financial expenditure. Please see the video of the Public Hearing at the RI PUC from April 4, 2023. My testimony is at about minute 30. https://video.ibm.com/recorded/132693444
P.S. According to testimony from RI Energy at the April 4 Public Hearing, only about 60% of the current AMR meters are aging out. The old-fashioned analog meters (which emit no radiofrequency radiation and so are biologically safe, are accurate and do not collect data from households and businesses) last up to
50 years. The AMF "Smart" Meters will need to be updated/replaced every 5-7 years, not the 20 years that is envisioned for the cost to make cents.
Letter Regarding Incandescent Ban
from Mark Baker, President of Soft Lights Foundation: The Department of Energy has published a rule that effectively bans incandescents and forces LED light bulbs by making two outrageous and provably false claims: 1) LED light has the same characteristics as incandescent light. 2) LED visible radiation is safe and
causes no adverse health impacts.
LEDs emit a directed
energy beam of visible radiation that has little dispersion over distance. The disjointed spectral power distribution often contains hazardous blue wavelength light, and the electronics create dangerous square wave flicker. LED products are a human health hazard and the DOE has kept this information hidden from the public. The Soft Lights Foundation petitioned the DOE to rescind the 45 lumen/watt rule, but the DOE refuses to make our petition public for fear of the public
learning the truth. Our detailed petition is here: (https://www.softlights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Combined-DOE-Petition.pdf) [Note, in cooperation with Softlights, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
filed comments in this matter including the Softlights petition and comments were
accepted]. The only federal agency with Congressional
authority to regulate electromagnetic radiation emitted by electronic devices, including lasers and LEDs, is the Food and Drug Administration. The DOE has no Congressional authority to force LED radiation devices onto the public. The FDA has not yet published the required performance standards that will ensure the comfort, health, and safety of the public, despite the Congressional mandate to do so. Performance standards would include restrictions on peak luminance,
dispersion characteristics, spectral power distribution, and square wave flicker. The Soft Lights Foundation petitioned the FDA to regulate LED products on June 12, 2022 (https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2022-P-1151-0001). The FDA, however, is not acting on our petition and sent us this letter: (https://www.softlights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-917-reply_edited.pdf) You may contact Jeffrey Shuren, Director of the FDA CDRH (jeff.shuren@fda.hhs.gov) for details on the hazards of LED visible radiation and lack of regulation. LED light bulbs are unvetted, unregulated, unapproved, and hazardous to human health. Companies have no legal
authority to manufacture or sell LED products, and the DOE has no Congressional authorization to force LED products onto the public Sincerely, Mark Baker President Soft Lights Foundation www.softlights.org mbaker@softlights.org There is a new "Building Biology Inspired Fairy Tale" we read about in Nick Pineault's newsletter. Here is the email from
Nick: Hey,
I heard about this initiative a few months ago and felt compelled to tell you about it. I’m talking about the new children’s book launched by building biologists Chris McPhie and Scott
Ricker.
It’s called “The Wishing Tree: A Building Biology Inspired Fairy
Tale” and officially launched on Amazon not too long ago, after they did a Kickstarter campaign to finance the project.
It’s SO important to educate the next generation about EMFs and the importance of environmental health, so I’m very grateful to
these gentlemen for putting together such a great resource. You can learn more about the book at HERE.
Nick We will be back with the agenda for this Friday's call later this
week! Sincerely, Jenny DeMarco Virginians for Safe Technology Odette Wilkens Wired Broadband,
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