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Any comment appreciated re this subject.
I contacted Uniden, one of the largest manufacturers of DECT cordless
phones, and they informed me that the output of their phones is
typically 80mw, which they consider to be quite safe. Interestingly
cordless phone manufacturers do not state the output of their phones in
the specifications.
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The initial market success for DECT was found in Germany in the early
1990s and it was in that country where adverse health effects from DECT
technology soon became apparent. Soon after the introduction of DECT in
Germany Dr. Leberecht von Klitzing, a medical physicist and researcher
from the University of Luebeck had infants brought to him who were
perfectly healthy, but their heart beat became erratic for no obvious
reason. As soon as the DECT cordless phone was removed from the bedroom
or neighboring apartment, the infant's heart beat returned to normal.
(11) Concerns within the German medical community led to the Freiburger
Appeal in October 2002, signed by over 130 medical practitioners from
the German environmental medicine medical organisation,
Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Umweltmedizin e. V. (IGUMED). The
appeal was to express their concern over their medical observations of
adverse health impacts from the use of both cell phones and DECT
cordless phones. Symptoms were attributed to exposure to pulsed
microwave radiation from cell phone and DECT technology. The following
is an extract:
Out of great concern for the health of our fellow human beings do we -
as established physicians of all fields, especially that of
environmental medicine - turn to the medical establishment and those in
public health and political domains, as well as to the public. We have
observed, in recent years, a dramatic rise in severe and chronic
diseases among our patients, especially:
ˇ Learning, concentration, and behavioural disorders (e.g. attention
deficit disorder, ADD)
ˇ Extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, ever harder to influence with
medications
ˇ Heart rhythm disorders
ˇ Heart attacks and strokes among an increasingly younger population
ˇ Brain-degenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimers) and epilepsy
ˇ Cancerous afflictions: leukemia, brain tumors
Moreover, we have observed an ever-increasing occurrence of various
disorders, often misdiagnosed in patients as psychosomatic:
ˇ Headaches, migraines
ˇ Chronic exhaustion
ˇ Inner agitation
ˇ Sleeplessness, daytime sleepiness
ˇ Tinnitus
ˇ Susceptibility to infection
ˇ Nervous and connective tissue pains, for which the usual causes do not
explain even the most conspicuous symptoms
Since the living environment and lifestyles of our patients are familiar
to us, we can see especially after carefully-directed inquiry a clear
temporal and spatial correlation between the appearance of disease and
exposure to pulsed high-frequency microwave radiation (HFMR), such as:
ˇ Installation of a mobile telephone sending station in the near vicinity
ˇ Intensive mobile telephone use
ˇ Installation of a digital cordless (DECT) telephone at home or in the
neighbourhood. (12)
Specifically in relation to DECT phones the IGUMED called for a ban on
DECT telephones in preschools, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, events
halls, public buildings. They also called for a revision of the DECT
standards to reduce the radiation intensity. (13) The German Federal
Radiation Protection Agency (Bundesamt fur Strahlenschutz BfS) has
expressed concerns over DECT phone use. They stated in a January 2006
press release that a DECT cordless phone is often the strongest single
source of microwave radiation in a private home. To prevent possible
health risks the Agency recommended minimizing personal radiation
exposure (if a DECT phone is used) by placing the base station in a
place where you do not spend much time, for example a hall. For the
workplace the Agency specifically advised to avoid placing DECT phones
on work desks and called upon manufacturers to redesign the phones to
include a feature of power output control, so that the power output
during a call would be adapted to the distance of the handset from its
base station. This would allow phone use only to the level of power
necessary to keep the communication going and power would be down while
on standby and connected to the base station/charger. (14) In December
of 2005 the Public Health Department, Salzburg Region, Austria issued
advice to the government, schools and parents warning of the lack of
studies available on either short-term or long-term health effects from
WLAN and DECT devices. However the department saw evidence of possible
adverse effects such as headaches, concentration difficulty,
restlessness, and memory problems etc. The official advice of the Public
health Department is not to use WLAN and DECT in Schools or
Kindergartens. (15)
quoted from: http://www.emfacts.com/papers/dect.pdf
also: "It is recommended that advice to new parents would be to have
nothing to do with DECT baby monitors whatsoever."
----
Stowe School, the Buckinghamshire public school, also removed part of
its wireless network after a teacher became ill. Michael Bevington, a
classics teacher for 28 years at the school, said that he had such a
violent reaction to the network that he was too ill to teach.
I felt a steadily widening range of unpleasant effects whenever I was
in the classroom, he said. First came a thick headache, then pains
throughout the body, sudden flushes, pressure behind the eyes, sudden
skin pains and burning sensations, along with bouts of nausea. Over the
weekend, away from the classroom, I felt completely normal.
quoted from: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=592
----
see also: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?cat=29
--
rgds,
Pete
=====
http://pw352.blogspot.com/
'Never eat yellow snow'
I contacted Uniden, one of the largest manufacturers of DECT cordless
phones, and they informed me that the output of their phones is
typically 80mw, which they consider to be quite safe. Interestingly
cordless phone manufacturers do not state the output of their phones in
the specifications.
-------------------------------------
The initial market success for DECT was found in Germany in the early
1990s and it was in that country where adverse health effects from DECT
technology soon became apparent. Soon after the introduction of DECT in
Germany Dr. Leberecht von Klitzing, a medical physicist and researcher
from the University of Luebeck had infants brought to him who were
perfectly healthy, but their heart beat became erratic for no obvious
reason. As soon as the DECT cordless phone was removed from the bedroom
or neighboring apartment, the infant's heart beat returned to normal.
(11) Concerns within the German medical community led to the Freiburger
Appeal in October 2002, signed by over 130 medical practitioners from
the German environmental medicine medical organisation,
Interdisziplinäre Gesellschaft für Umweltmedizin e. V. (IGUMED). The
appeal was to express their concern over their medical observations of
adverse health impacts from the use of both cell phones and DECT
cordless phones. Symptoms were attributed to exposure to pulsed
microwave radiation from cell phone and DECT technology. The following
is an extract:
Out of great concern for the health of our fellow human beings do we -
as established physicians of all fields, especially that of
environmental medicine - turn to the medical establishment and those in
public health and political domains, as well as to the public. We have
observed, in recent years, a dramatic rise in severe and chronic
diseases among our patients, especially:
ˇ Learning, concentration, and behavioural disorders (e.g. attention
deficit disorder, ADD)
ˇ Extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, ever harder to influence with
medications
ˇ Heart rhythm disorders
ˇ Heart attacks and strokes among an increasingly younger population
ˇ Brain-degenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimers) and epilepsy
ˇ Cancerous afflictions: leukemia, brain tumors
Moreover, we have observed an ever-increasing occurrence of various
disorders, often misdiagnosed in patients as psychosomatic:
ˇ Headaches, migraines
ˇ Chronic exhaustion
ˇ Inner agitation
ˇ Sleeplessness, daytime sleepiness
ˇ Tinnitus
ˇ Susceptibility to infection
ˇ Nervous and connective tissue pains, for which the usual causes do not
explain even the most conspicuous symptoms
Since the living environment and lifestyles of our patients are familiar
to us, we can see especially after carefully-directed inquiry a clear
temporal and spatial correlation between the appearance of disease and
exposure to pulsed high-frequency microwave radiation (HFMR), such as:
ˇ Installation of a mobile telephone sending station in the near vicinity
ˇ Intensive mobile telephone use
ˇ Installation of a digital cordless (DECT) telephone at home or in the
neighbourhood. (12)
Specifically in relation to DECT phones the IGUMED called for a ban on
DECT telephones in preschools, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, events
halls, public buildings. They also called for a revision of the DECT
standards to reduce the radiation intensity. (13) The German Federal
Radiation Protection Agency (Bundesamt fur Strahlenschutz BfS) has
expressed concerns over DECT phone use. They stated in a January 2006
press release that a DECT cordless phone is often the strongest single
source of microwave radiation in a private home. To prevent possible
health risks the Agency recommended minimizing personal radiation
exposure (if a DECT phone is used) by placing the base station in a
place where you do not spend much time, for example a hall. For the
workplace the Agency specifically advised to avoid placing DECT phones
on work desks and called upon manufacturers to redesign the phones to
include a feature of power output control, so that the power output
during a call would be adapted to the distance of the handset from its
base station. This would allow phone use only to the level of power
necessary to keep the communication going and power would be down while
on standby and connected to the base station/charger. (14) In December
of 2005 the Public Health Department, Salzburg Region, Austria issued
advice to the government, schools and parents warning of the lack of
studies available on either short-term or long-term health effects from
WLAN and DECT devices. However the department saw evidence of possible
adverse effects such as headaches, concentration difficulty,
restlessness, and memory problems etc. The official advice of the Public
health Department is not to use WLAN and DECT in Schools or
Kindergartens. (15)
quoted from: http://www.emfacts.com/papers/dect.pdf
also: "It is recommended that advice to new parents would be to have
nothing to do with DECT baby monitors whatsoever."
----
Stowe School, the Buckinghamshire public school, also removed part of
its wireless network after a teacher became ill. Michael Bevington, a
classics teacher for 28 years at the school, said that he had such a
violent reaction to the network that he was too ill to teach.
I felt a steadily widening range of unpleasant effects whenever I was
in the classroom, he said. First came a thick headache, then pains
throughout the body, sudden flushes, pressure behind the eyes, sudden
skin pains and burning sensations, along with bouts of nausea. Over the
weekend, away from the classroom, I felt completely normal.
quoted from: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=592
----
see also: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?cat=29
--
rgds,
Pete
=====
http://pw352.blogspot.com/
'Never eat yellow snow'