CALL to deliver in front of the Mobile World Congress February 14, 2011 in Barcelona because of Low-intensity (non-thermal) bioeffects and adverse health effects are demonstrated at levels

CALL by Olle Johansson, Assoc. Professor, Karolinska Institute; Professor, The Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, January 5, 2011 To Anyone concerned, In November, 2009, a scientific panel met in Seletun, Norway, for three days of intensive discussion on existing scientific evidence and public health implications of the unprecedented global exposures to artificial electromagnetic fields (EMF). The Scientific Panel recognizes that the body of evidence on EMF requires a new approach to protection of public health; the growth and development of the fetus, and of children; and argues for strong preventative actions. These conclusions are built upon prior scientific and public health reports documenting the following: 1) Low-intensity (non-thermal) bioeffects and adverse health effects are demonstrated at levels significantly below existing exposure standards. 2) ICNIRP and IEEE/FCC public safety limits are inadequate and obsolete with respect to prolonged, low-intensity exposures. 3) New, biologically-based public exposure standards are urgently needed to protect public health world-wide. 4) It is not in the public interest to wait. Strong concern has been voiced by the public, and by scientists as well as public health and environmental policy experts, that the deployment of technologies that expose billions of people world-wide to new sources of EMF may pose a pervasive risk to public health. Such exposures did not exist before the “age of industry and information”. Prolonged exposure appears to disrupt biological processes that are fundamental to plant, animal and human growth and health. Life on earth did not evolve with biological protections or adaptive biological responses to these EMF exposures. Exceptionally small levels of EMF from earth and space existed during the time that all life evolved on earth on the order of less than a billionth to one ten-billionth of a Watt per meter squared. A rapidly accumulating body of scientific evidence of harm to health and well-being constitute warnings that adverse health effects can occur with prolonged exposures to very low-intensity EMF at biologically active frequencies or frequency combinations. The Seletun Scientific Panel (((in alphabetical order) Adamantia Fragopoulou, Yuri Grigoriev, Olle Johansson, Lukas H Margaritis, Lloyd Morgan, Elihu Richter, and Cindy Sage) has adopted a Consensus Agreement (Reviews on Environmental Health, 25(4), 2010, in press) that recommends preventative and precautionary actions that are warranted now, given the existing evidence for potential global health risks. We recognize the duty of governments and their health agencies to educate and warn the public, to implement measures balanced in favor of the Precautionary Principle, to monitor compliance with directives promoting alternatives to wireless, and to fund research and policy development geared toward prevention of exposures and development of new public safety measures. Olle Johansson Assoc. Professor, Karolinska Institute; Professor, The Royal Institute of Technology ********************************************************************************** The So-far Undersigned CALL by Pr Olle Johansson : DR. EMILI MAYAYO ARTAL – 08.01.2011; Servicio de Anatomía Patológica Hospital Universitario Joan XXIII de Tarragona Universitat Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona