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variety of symptoms including headaches, fatigue, dizziness, sleep disturbances, nausea, anxiety, <br />cardiac arrhythmias, concentration and memory problems, skin disorders, ringing in the ears, <br />nose bleeds and blood pressure variability. These are the same symptoms reported decades ago <br />in military personnel working on microwave wireless radar communications. The symptoms <br />declined or disappeared completely once the people left their residence and exposure was <br />reduced or ceased. <br /> <br />Testing by researchers showed levels of wireless electromagnetic radiation (EMR) in their <br />living quarters that are considered safe and were below those of ICNIRP and the FCC guidelines, <br />despite severe symptoms requiring those affected to leave the premises to feel better. The authors <br />note that, “The limits for allowed exposure to RF or microwave radiation applied by most <br />countries around the world…are still based only on heating (thermal) effects that appear within a <br />very short time of exposure. Protection against long-term exposure and any other harmful effects <br />that are not based on heating (non-thermal) are thereby excluded [1-4].” (Hardell 2023) That is, <br />the non-thermal biological effects such as DNA damage, oxidative damage, biochemical changes <br />and interference with cellular processes, that are now repeatedly demonstrated in the lab and to <br />all living organisms (plants, insects, birds, reptiles, mammals and bacteria) from exposure to <br />manmade wireless radiation, are not considered in the regulation of wireless devices or <br />infrastructure. The current electromagnetic radiation (EMR) limits for human exposure are thus a <br />short term cooking standard and far too lenient. <br /> <br />The ICBE-EMF notes in 2022, “These limits were based on results from behavioral studies <br />conducted in the 1980s involving 40-60-minute exposures in 5 monkeys and 8 rats, and then <br />applying arbitrary safety factors to an apparent threshold specific absorption rate (SAR) of 4 <br />W/kg.”. They state in their published paper that, “We show how the past 25 years of extensive <br />research on RFR demonstrates that the assumptions underlying the FCC's and ICNIRP's <br />exposure limits are invalid and continue to present a public health harm.” <br /> <br />Using heat as a standard flys in the face of reason considering that toxic chemicals, such as <br />pesticides, asbestos, mercury and arsenic act by similar mechanisms - inducing oxidative stress – <br />cause harm without heat- it is biological harm. (Zheng 2020) Wireless radiation is thus another <br />environmental toxic exposure with regulation conveniently outdated and science ignored. <br /> <br /> <br />Evidence for a health risk by RF on humans living around mobile <br />phone base stations: From radiofrequency sickness to cancer <br />(Balmori 2022) <br /> <br />An important review of cell tower health effects on humans was published in 2022. Balmori <br />examined both the short term and long-term health impacts reported in 38 epidemiologic reviews <br />from around the world. 74% of studies showed adverse health effects in 3 categories- cancer, <br />neurobehavioral effects and biochemical changes. The 3 health effects of cell tower radiation <br />revealed were: <br />