A new campaign addressing cell phone safety has been launched by a collaboration of leading health advocacy organizations with the support of eminent scientists and physicians from the U.S. and Europe. The Campaign for Safer Cell Phones seeks to educate the public on cell phone safety; advocate for safer phones; revise cell phone radiation exposure guidelines; support major, long-term, multidisciplinary independent research on cell phones and health; and require both pre-market health and safety testing and post-market surveillance.

 

The Campaign for Safer Cell Phones’ Medical Advisory Board includes Franz Adlkofer, MD, VerUm Foundation for Behavior and Environment, Germany; David O. Carpenter, MD, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany; Mitchell Gaynor, MD, Gaynor Integrative Oncology; Livio Guiliani, PhD, Scientific Director, International Commission on Electromagnetic Safety; Ronald B. Herberman, MD, Former Director Emeritus, University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute; Mark Hyman, MD, Editor in Chief, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine; Woodson C. Merrell, MD, Chairman, Department of Integrative Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center; and David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh.

 

A Briefing Book has been prepared on this topic for government officials, communities, physicians, parents and other interested parties. It can be download at: http://snipr.com/us1gw. The Campaign for Safer Cell Phones Briefing Book documents the known cell phone health risks, with links to the science, as well as legislation and warnings from other countries. It includes recommendations from the report “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone” (http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/15reasons.asp).

 

Lead authors of the Campaign for Safer Cell Phones Briefing Book include Devra Davis, PhD, MPH, Epidemiologist, Founder of Environmental Health Trust (www.environmentalhealthtrust.org) and author of “The Secret History of the War on Cancer” (http://snipr.com/us2kv ), Ellen Marks, founder of California Brain Tumor Association (www.cabta.org), L. Lloyd Morgan, Cell Phone Epidemiology Scientist, Janet Newton, President of the EMR Policy Institute (www.EMRPolic.org) and Camilla Rees, Founder of ElectromagneticHealth.org and co-author of “Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution” (http://snipr.com/us2mv).

 

Other groups associated with the Campaign for Safer Cell Phones include the National Research Center for Women and Families, Moms for Safe Wireless, Teens Turning Green, More Green Moms, Electromagnetic Safety, Super Natural Mom, Healthy Child, Radiation Rescue, Radiation Research Trust (UK), Association PRIARTEM (France) and The Cancer Society of South Africa.

 

CALL TO ACTION of the Campaign for Safer Cell Phones:

• Inform the public about known and suspected health impacts of electromagnetic radiation, especially on children.
• Some studies have found that after a decade of heavy cell phone use, brain tumor risks double in adults and quadruple in those who started to use cell phones as teenagers.
• Advise that phones should not be held at the head or on the body when in standby mode or used at all when the signal strength is weak.
• Require that manufacturers sell cell phones with earpieces, speakerphone option, and WARNING LABELS.
• Review and revise safety standards with state of the art independent science with head and body models for persons of different ages and genders.
• Support major, long-term, multidisciplinary independent research and training programs on cell phones and health (funded by manufacturers providing fees currently placed on cell phone bills).
• Require pre-market health and safety testing and post-market surveillance.

 

Download Campaign for Safer Cell Phones Briefing Book: Here