The Qatar Ministry of Environment and Climate Change announces plans to measure wireless RF radiation from cell antennas in residential areas crowded with elderly citizens and children, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and recreational places .
” Quatar is moving forward but in the U.S.A. we are stuck with outdated FCC rules and regulations, ” stated Theodora Scarato Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust. “Numerous countries measure radio frequency radiation including France , Spain, Austria, Greece, Turkey, India, Israel, Gibraltar, Brussels Belgium, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Malta, Brazil, Bahrain, Monaco, French Polynesia, Bhuton, Senega. France even has 5G monitoring stations. The United States needs to catch up with the rest of the world and start measuring this growing environmental pollutant.”
The European Parliament passed – Resolution 1815 “The Potential Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields and Their Effect on the Environment which calls on European governments to “take all reasonable measures” to reduce exposure to electromagnetic fields “particularly the exposure to children and young people who seem to be most at risk from head tumours.” Last year the European Parliament requested a research report “Health Impact of 5G” which was released in July 2021 and concluded in regards to human health impacts that commonly used wireless radiofrequency radiation (RFR) frequencies (450 to 6000 MHz) are “probably carcinogenic” for humans and “clearly affect” male fertility with possible adverse effects on the development of embryos, fetuses and newborns.
Scarato pointed out the EPA last released RF radiation measurements in a 1986 Report on Environmental Exposure Levels. EHT has a timeline of policy action in the USA revealing that the EPA was defunded from researching the issue decades ago.
“The Qatar Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC), represented by the Radiation and Chemical Protection Department, announced the start of implementation of a project to operate the national network for monitoring non-ionising radiation.”
“The project also aims to prepare a field study in the country to determine non-ionising radiation of all kinds, conduct large-scale radiometric surveys, establish the national system for monitoring non-ionising radiation and build the necessary human and technical capacities for this system, draw up radiological maps of Qatar, and prepare induction plans for the public and workers.”
Head of the Radiation Protection Section at the department Eng Hamad Salah Ibrahim said that the project will be implemented in three phases.
The first phase includes conducting an assessment of the national legislation on non-ionising radiation and proposing amendments to it in line with the international standards, and preparing awareness programs for the public and workers on uses, risks and prevention.
The first phase includes conducting an assessment of the national legislation on non-ionising radiation and proposing amendments to it in line with the international standards, and preparing awareness programs for the public and workers on uses, risks and prevention.
The second stage includes identifying residential areas crowded with elderly citizens and children, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and recreational places and the extent of their exposure to radiation levels; designing continuous radiation monitoring networks as well as fixed, mobile and manual devices and accompanying technologies; identifying the possibility of expansion, increasing and updating the number of monitoring networks; establishing an integrated radiation database and maps; and preparing a comprehensive field study for the State to identify all sources of non-ionizing radiation of all types.
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