Webinar: What You Need To Know About Safe Tech and Children’s Health
Who: Theodora Scarato Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust with Daniela Perlato
What: What You Need to Know About Children and Safe Technology: How You Can Minimize The Health Effects of Technology
When: May 5, 2021, 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Wireless technology in schools is an environmental health issue. A growing amount of scientific research links this wireless radiation to serious health effects on health—such as memory and sleep problems, headaches, cancer, and damage to brain development.
Schools are a unique environment because there are so many wireless devices in each room. All wireless devices (including cell phones, cordless landline phones, any item with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth capability, etc.) generate and emit invisible electromagnetic radiation called radiofrequency (RFR). Children will spend several hours a day in classrooms with wireless exposures.
In 2011, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer first classified cell phone and other types of wireless radiation as a “Group 2B Possible Human Carcinogen” based on research studies that found long-term users of cell phones had higher rates of specific types of tumors (glioblastoma and acoustic neuroma) on the side of the head where they held the phone. A Yale study funded by the American Cancer Society found an association between thyroid cancer and cell phone use in people with certain genetic susceptibilities. Now several independent scientists state that the scientific evidence has increases and wireless is a human carcinogen.
Wireless radiation penetrates deeper into children’s brains due to their thinner skulls and unique physiology. Children’s brains and immune systems are still developing, therefore children are more vulnerable to the effects.
Numerous governments such as France, Cyprus, and Israel are banning and/or restricting wireless in classrooms to reduce children’s radiation exposure.
SCHOOLS
Checklist: How to Reduce School Wireless
Collaborative for High-Performance Schools LOW EMF Criteria
List of Schools Banning Cell Phones
List of Schools Reducing Wireless
SCIENCE
Letters by Scientists to Schools
Research on Wi-Fi Frequencies
PDF of Studies on Wi-Fi to Share
Children are More Vulnerable
Screens Smartphones and Children
Pregnancy
About Theodora Scarato
Theodora Scarato MSW is Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust (EHT), a scientific think tank that publishes research and educates policymakers on environmental health issues. EHT scientists are among the leading independent voices calling to halt 5G.
Scarato has published research on EMF policy and maintains EHT’s renowned EMF policy database. She co-authored “Building science and radiofrequency radiation: What makes smart and healthy buildings” which scientifically documents how government limits for wireless are nonprotective and lists best practices for reducing wireless in buildings. As a petitioner in the historic lawsuit EHT et al., v the FCC, Scarato and EHT have spearheaded efforts to strengthen US wireless radiation limits.
Scarato coordinates scientific programs and develops awareness raising educational resources. She has lectured at the National Institutes of Health, the New Hampshire State 5G Commission, the University of California San Francisco and several international conferences.
