Scientific Letter to Italian Government
The Italian government has halted a controversial proposal that would have weakened the country’s strict wireless radiation exposure limits. A letter was sent to the officials by numerous expert scientists.
“Our studies, and more generally international research in the latest twenty years, have largely demonstrated that exposure to radiofrequency, even below the current ICNIRP/WHO safety standards, can cause damage to health and it can reduce the levels of well-being in the general population.”
Download the letter by expert scientists to the Italian government here.
2020 Consensus Statement of UK and International Medical and Scientific Experts 3500 Medical Doctors
“Hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies have demonstrated adverse biological effects occurring in response to a range of NIR exposures below current safety guidelines; however emissions continue to escalate.
Over 400 Doctors: Scientific Appeal to Halt 5G To the European Commission
- Over 400 scientists and doctors from 35 countries.
- “We recommend a moratorium on the roll-out of the fifth generation, 5G, for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry…RF-EMF has been proven to be harmful for humans and the environment.”
- 2017 Scientific Appeal on 5G To the European Commission
EMF Scientists Appeal
“The International EMF Scientist Appeal serves as a credible and influential voice from EMF (electromagnetic field) scientists who are urgently calling upon the United Nations and its sub-organizations, the WHO and UNEP, and all U.N. Member States, for greater health protection on EMF exposure.”
- Read the EMF Scientists Testimony to the FCC
- Read the 2015 EMF Scientist Appeal and see the long list of signatories here
- Read the August 18, 2017 Statement on 5G “We recommend that, in keeping with the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to “Protect, Respect and Remedy”, 5G technologies must be subjected to an independent health and safety assessment before they are launched.”
- Read the published article on the EMF Scientist Appeal in the International Journal of Oncology here
Switzerland Doctors for the Environment
Recommendations to the federal authorities include more stringent RF regulations due to regulatory gaps especially in relation to SAR limits for phones and wireless devices. They recommend the federal government educate the public on how to reduce exposure.
Regarding 5G deployment they issued a position paper calling for precaution, a moratorium on millimeter wave frequency bands and they recommended fiber optic connections to homes, schools and businesses with cable connections inside.
The Italian Association of Doctors for the Environment
Appealed to the government to maintain strict RF thresholds for the country.
“No technical or economic reason can justify a health risk to population and biodiversity. Raising the limit to 61 V/m means ignoring the health reasons which demonstrate the presence of non-thermal biological effects, even very serious ones, up to tumor forms, caused by the frequencies already in use. “
Joined onto the 2020 Consensus Statement on the risks of exposure to radio frequencies in general and 5G in particular was recently drawn up and circulated by 13 international medical associations, including ISDE Italia. An Italian translation prepared by ISDE Italia is available at the link: https://tinyurl.com/y7mgcrhj
130 Doctors in Chile
A letter signed by 135 health professionals across Chile has requested a moratorium on the deployment of 5G technology until it is certain that it does not pose a risk to human health and the environment. A Chile 5G Appeal has been launched in support of the petition.
60 Officials in France
A petition addressed to Prime Minister Jean Castex, signed by over sixty elected officials including Jean-Luc Mélenchon (deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône (FI)), Manon Aubry (European deputy (FI)) or Michèle Rubirola ( mayor of Marseille) who urged the government to decide on a moratorium on the deployment of 5G. The petition references the increase in wireless exposure and the need to assess environmental effects before deploying 5G.
“We, mayors and elected officials are immediately proposing a moratorium on the deployment of 5G at least until the summer of 2021. During this moratorium, we are asking for a decentralized democratic debate on 5G and on digital uses. We ask the municipalities for the right to subsidiarity concerning the application of the precautionary principle.” Read more.
400 US Doctors and Medical Professionals Submit Opposition to 5G to US Government FCC
Over 400 medical professionals have told the FCC it was wrong not to update its RF human exposure guidelines. The letter was signed by doctors, both medical and PHDs, nurses and others submitted as comment on a recent FCC decision 19-226.
In the letter to the FCC, dated June 17, the medical professionals said the FCC “completely ignores the documented adverse health effects that can occur at the FCC’s current radiofrequency (RF) exposure limits, much less those that may occur at the expanded range of frequencies contemplated in the proposed rule.”
“Americans are entitled to know the full extent of any potential health risks associated with exposure to RF microwave radiation, particularly at this time when wireless companies are busy installing hundreds of thousands of new wireless antennas in close proximity to homes and apartments. The determination of risk can best be evaluated from properly conducted, independent studies. The alternative of waiting for decades to learn whether or not these exposures increase disease rates in human populations and in the natural world is a dangerous and irresponsible strategy.”
2019 Resolution: US Doctors and Experts wrote President Trump calling for a halt to 5G
“We join with the thousands of doctors, scientists and health care providers worldwide who have recently issued appeals for urgent action on 5G to protect public health. The rapidly growing list includes the International EMF Scientist Appeal, Appeal to the European Union, Belgium Doctors Appeal, Canadian Doctors, Cyprus Medical Association, Physicians of Turin, Italy, the German Doctors Appeal, International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and Space and the International Society of Doctors for the Environment.
We call for a moratorium on 5G and any further wireless antenna densification until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from the wireless industry.” –December 11, 2019,
Read the full US Doctors and Experts National 5G Resolution
Scientific Appeals by Scientists and Doctors and Experts on 5G and Wireless Antennas
5G Appeal to Stop Deployment on Earth and Space
- There are 201,383 signatories from 202 nations and territories as of February 14th, 2020; Scientists (4,503), Engineers (8,036), Medical Doctors (2,593), Nurses (4,177), Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Social Workers (9,663), Doctors of Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Ayurveda and Medical Qigong (2,777), Doctors of Oriental Medicine (770), Chiropractors (412), Dentists (438), Pharmacists (552), Architects and Builders (3,137), Building Biologists (271), Veterinarians (344), Beekeepers (657), Other Professions (54,148), Citizens (78,082), Organizations (1,835)
- 5G Appeal to Stop Deployment on Earth and Space
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
“The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments is made up of nurses from all over the US working in the areas of public health, environmental health, clinical practice, research and academics. As medical and public health professionals, we are writing to express our opposition to the above captioned rule. We believe the Commission has failed adequately consider the established and newly emerging science on RF microwave radiation and its impact on human health.”
“Is the FCC engaged in a conscious effort to disregard science to facilitate the rapid deployment of new technologies to benefit industry at the risk of our health and well- being? Asserting that there is no harm is misleading at best. The commission has a very important responsibility to protect the health and safety of the public. ..Proceed with caution and put public health first.”
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
Over 400 Medical Professionals to the US FCC
Over 400 Medical Professionals Letter
“Americans are entitled to know the full extent of any potential health risks associated with exposure to RF microwave radiation, particularly at this time when wireless companies are busy installing hundreds of thousands of new wireless antennas in close proximity to homes and apartments. The determination of risk can best be evaluated from properly conducted, independent studies. The alternative of waiting for decades to learn whether or not these exposures increase disease rates in human populations and in the natural world is a dangerous and irresponsible strategy.”
2020 German Environmental Organization Bund
Telecom Paper, Bund signs petition to stop 5G in Hamburg, Thursday 13 February 2020
- “The electro-smog working group of German environmental organisation Bund has delivered a petition with over 6.000 signatures to the First Mayor of Hamburg, Peter Tschentscher, opposing construction of a 5G network in the city. Bund believes that the expansion of 5G should take place only after testing the impact of the new technology on health and the environment”
- Hamburg – The environmental organization BUND is calling for an expansion stop for the latest 5G mobile network in Hamburg“Without an assessment of health and environmental compatibility, the infrastructure should not be expanded, said regional manager Manfred Braasch in Hamburg. In addition, the mobile network is currently being expanded without the required technology assessment. The BUND handed over his demands with 6000 signatures to the mayor’s office of Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD).”
2019 German Doctors Delegation
- 70 doctors from Baden-Württemberg have signed the open letter to Prime Minister Kretschmann. The doctors’ demand on Kretschmann is to minimize exposure to electromagnetic fields.
- Stuttgarter Zeitung: Doctors protest against 5G mobile communications
- Stuttgarter Nachrichten: Doctors protest against 5G mobile communications
- TV report in Regio TV Stuttgart
- The study overview (review) “Effects of high-frequency radiation of mobile phones and wireless devices on health and well-being” in German translation is available on the website of diagnostose: funk as a PDF download:
2019 Hippocrates Electrosmog Appeal of Belgium
- The Appeal has been signed by over 434 medical doctors, nurses and health professionals in Belgium.
- “Faced with the massive and reckless deployment of wireless technologies, we health professionals are asking the government to apply the precautionary principle in order to protect the population and more particularly the most vulnerable groups, including pregnant women. and the children.”
- Read the “Hippocrates Electrosmog Appeal of Belgium”
- Read News Story July 2020 LeLibre: DNA damage, brain cancer: 434 doctors and 900 Belgian health professionals sound the alarm on 5G
LaLibre.be, Apr 29, 2020; Updated Apr 30, 2020 (Google translation from French)
2019 US Doctors and Experts National 5G Resolution
- An Urgent Call for a Moratorium on 5th Generation Wireless Technologies Pending Safety Testing
- We join with the thousands of doctors, scientists and health care providers worldwide who have recently issued appeals for urgent action on 5G to protect public health. The rapidly growing list includes the International EMF Scientist Appeal, Appeal to the European Union, Belgium Doctors Appeal, Canadian Doctors, Cyprus Medical Association, Physicians of Turin, Italy, the German Doctors Appeal, International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and Space and the International Society of Doctors for the Environment.
- We call for a moratorium on 5G and any further wireless antenna densification until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from the wireless industry.
- December 11, 2019, US Doctors and Experts National 5G Resolution
2019 Pancyprian Medical Association and Cyprus National Committee on the Environment and Child Health.
2019 Position Paper on 5G of the Pancyprian Medical Association and Cyprus National Committee on the Environment and Child Health.
- The Pancyprian Medical Association and Cyprus National Committee on the Environment and Child Health position paper on 5G is entitled “The Risks to Public Health from the Use of the 5G Network” and was sent to the Cyprus Parliamentary Committees on Environment and Health. The position paper is based on the historic Nicosia Declaration of 2017.
- The position paper emphasizes the lack of safety studies, the increase in exposure and the potential interactions of the network with other telecommunication networks. The paper also highlights the lack of a reliable method to measure the radiation levels in real world situations- an issue that was raised in the 2019 European Parliament Report “5G Deployment State of Play in Europe, USA and Asia”which states that, “ the problem is that currently it is not possible to accurately simulate or measure 5G emissions in the real world.”
- Read Press Release on the 5G Position Paper
2018: The European Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) Report
- The report identified 14 emerging issues to bring to the attention of the Commission services including 5G, E-cigarette and chronic diseases. They prioritized 5G impact as “high” and concludes that “the lack of clear evidence to inform the development of exposure guidelines to 5G technology leaves open the possibility of unintended biological consequences.”
- Read the SCHEER statement “Potential effects on wildlife of increases in electromagnetic radiation“
2018: International Society of Doctors for Environment
International Society of Doctors for Environment Declaration on 5G
- “An appeal for a standstill in the respect of the precautionary principle”
- “Thus, in the respect of the precautionary principle and of the WHO principle “health in all policies”, we believe suitable the request of a standstill for the “5G experimentations” throughout Europe…”
- 5G ISDE Appeal link
EMF Scientist Appeal
- 253 Scientists as of May 1, 2020
- The EMF Scientists are reputable scientists from 41 countries who have published peer reviewed research papers on electromagnetic fields who made a 2015 appeal to the United Nations and all member States in the world to encourage the World Health Organization “to exert strong leadership in fostering the development of more protective EMF guidelines, encouraging precautionary measures, and educating the public about health risks, particularly risk to children and fetal development.”
- Read the 2015 EMF Scientist Appeal and see the long list of signatories.
- Read the EMF Scientist Appeal published in the International Journal of Oncology
- Letter to UNEP (June 25, 2019)
Letters and Official Briefings on 5G, Cell Towers and Wireless Proliferation
Dr. Linda Birnbaum’s letter on close proximity cell tower.
Letter from Dr. Devra Davis and Dr. Anthomy Miller on Cell Towers to Town of Chester New York
Dr. Havas Letter to Pittsfield Re cell tower RF July 2021.pdf
Dr. Carpenter to Pittsfield Board of Health Regarding Cell Tower
Pittsfield Board of Health to MA Legislature on Need For Research
Dr. Jerome Paulson to MA Legislature on children’s vulnerability October 2021
Cindy Russell, MD. (2021, April 6). Letter to Council Members in the City of Pittsfield. Re: 3/21/21 Agenda Item #15 to encourage the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Health Department to investigate the health effects reported in the vicinity of the Verizon 877 South Street Cell tower.
Cindy Russell, MD. (2021, July 6). Letter to Pittsfield Board of Health. RE: Pittsfield testing of RFR emissions.
Devra Davis PhD, Theodora Scarato to City of Pittsfield Board of Health May 27, 2021
Olle Johansson PhD to Pittsfield Board of Health on Cell Tower Cease and Desist
Letter to Gov. Jerry Brown on Small Cell Bill
Briefing on 5G Health Impacts by Dr. Martin Pall: “5G: Great risk for EU, U.S. and International Health! Compelling Evidence for Eight Distinct Types of Great Harm Caused by Electromagnetic Field(EMF) Exposures and the Mechanism that Causes Them”
November 19, 2018 – Magda Havas, BSc, PhD, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada – Open Letter: Need to Consider Health Effects Associated with Radio Frequency and Microwave Radiation before Deployment of 5G.
November 19, 2018 – Paul Héroux, Professor of Toxicology and Health Effects of Electromagnetism, McGill University Medicine, Montreal – Open Letter
November 21, 2018 – Yuri Grigoriev, Dr. Sc. Med., Professor, Academician of Russian Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences – Open Letter: From Electromagnetic Smog to Electromagnetic Chaos Evaluating the Hazards of Mobile Communication for Public Health
December 7, 2018 – David O. Carpenter, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, State University of New York – Open Letter to Ministers and Members of Parliament of the Brussels Capital Region
December 13, 2018 – Olle Johansson, associate professor / retired from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden – Letter of Concern, addressed to the decision-makers of the City of Brussels
May 15, 2019- Magda Havas, BSc, PhD, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada Affidavit on 5G to Canadian Parliament with non profit EMF OFF.
2019 Letters to the Government of Guernsey
Letter from Don Maisch PhD to Chairman Michael O’Higgins Chief Minister Gavin St Pier, The States of Guernsey, Re: 5g
Letter from Paul Héroux, PhD to The States of Guernsey, Re: 5G
Letter from Professor Colin Pritchard to The States of Guernsey, Re: 5G
National Health Integrated Associates October 29, 2018 Letter to Montgomery County Council
Letter from Dr. Lennart Hardell To Governor Jerry Brown on SB649
Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, MD, PhD Lettter in Opposition to SB649
Letter from Dr. Martin Pall in Opposition to SB649
Attachment to Dr. Pall Letter – 142 Microwave Radiation Review Studies
Letter from Dr. Devra Davis to Chair Aguiar-Curry on SB 649, June 28, 2017
Letter from Dr. Devra Davis to Governor Jerry Brown on SB 649, September 17, 2017
Letter from Dr. Paul Ben Ishai in Opposition to SB 649, September 08, 2017
Letter from Dr. Cindy Russell in opposition to SB649
Letter from Physicians For Safe Technology in opposition to SB649
Article from Dr. Cindy Russell on Impacts of 5G Technology, January 2017
Letter from Dr. Joel Moskowitz To Governor Jerry Brown on SB649
Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, MD, PhD Lettter in Opposition to SB649
Letter from Dr. Hugh Scully to the City of Toronto
Letter from Dr. Stephen Sinatra to Toronto City Councilors in Opposition to Item 26.21
Romanian Academy “Responsible scientific analysis regarding consequences of 5G technology use on public health necessary”
- 8/27/2020 The Romanian Academy press release stated, “before putting in place the 5G system, a responsible scientific analysis is absolutely necessary, to target both the evaluation of risks on the health of humans, as well as establishing total maximum exposure standards.””In this context, we bring back to attention Resolution 1815/2011 of the Council of Europe, which mentions that: ‘all reasonable measures will be taken to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields, especially to the radiofrequencies of mobile phones, in particular for children and youths who seem to be exposed to risk of head tumors’ and requests the maintaining at the ‘lowest achievable level’ (ALARA principle) in what regards exposure time, distance and screening. We warn that the implementation of 5G technology, without a concrete evaluation of the risks and vulnerabilities, may have grave consequences on the health of the population and may generate sensibly higher damages than advantages.”
- News Report August 2020, 8/27/2020 Press Release
- PDF of Press Release
LETTERS FROM ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHERS
Letter from Frank Clegg, former President of Microsoft, Canada
Ellie Marks Letter to Governor Brown SB 649
Letter from the Alliance of Nurses for Health Environments
Letter from Environmental Working Group June 26, 2017
Letter from Environmental Working Group July 26, 2017
8/20 National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy Letter to Appropriations Committee
8/21 National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy Letter to Assembly
8/24 National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy Letter to Governor Brown.
Letter from the Sierra Club, August 15, 2017
Letter from Greenlining Institute, June 27, 2017
Letter from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), July 19, 2017
Letter From EMF Safety Network and Ecological Options Network, July 06, 2017
Letter by Susan Foster Assembly Appropriations Letter – Fire Station Exemption from SB 649, August 14, 2017
Letter from Susan Foster and Radiation Research Trust in of Opposition of SB649, June 22, 2017
Scientists For Wired Technology, 5/30/17: front and back
Scientists For Wired Technology 5/31/17:front and back
American Planning Association Opposes SB 649
Berkeley City Council Opposition Letter, April 25, 2017
SCIENTIFIC COMMENTS TO THE FCC
Comments by Ronald M. Powell, PhD, to the FCC on Spectrum Frontiers
Comments by Dr. Albert Manville to the FCC on Spectrum Frontiers, July 14, 2016
Comments by Dr. Joel Moskowitz to the FCC on Spectrum Frontiers, July 20, 2016
Comments by Dr. Yael Stein to the FCC on Spectrum Frontiers, July 09, 2016
Comments by Dr. Devra Davis to the FCC on Spectrum Frontiers
Comments by Susan Clarke to the FCC on Spectrum Frontiers, July 14, 2016
Comments by EMF Scientist Appeal Advisors to the FCC on Spectrum Frontiers, June 09, 2017
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