The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST)Health Impacts of Radio Frequency From Smart Meters final report was released on March 31, 2011. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) comments challenged the CCST, stating, “CDPH suggests further review of the literature on non-thermal effects, which is complicated and controversial, but does not support a claim of no non-thermal health effects from radio frequency electromagnetic fields.”
CDPH also provided the following links to documents regarding the controversy over Smart Meter (radio frequency radiation-RF) safety:
- Correspondence Provided by Rick Kreutzer, California Department of Health
Rick Kreutzer, California Department of Public Health (March 10, 2011) - Mixed Signals About Cellphones’ Health Risks Hang Up Research
The Chronicle (September 26, 2010) - Summary of the Literature: What do we Know About Cell Phones and Health?
(July 20, 2010) - Brain Tumor Risk in Relation to Mobile Telephone Use: Results of the INTERPHONE International Case – Control Study
Oxford University Press (March 8, 2010) - Mobile Phones and Health
U.K. Department of Health - Late Lessons from Early Warnings: Towards Realism and Precaution with EMF?
David Gee, European Environment Agency, (January 30, 2009) - Statement of Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) Concerning Mobile Phones and Health
Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority – STUK (January 7, 2009) - Fact Sheet: Children and Safe Cell Phone Use
Toronto Public Health (July 2008) - Children and Mobile phones: The Health of the Following Generations in Danger
Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (April 14, 2008) - AFSSE Statement on Mobile Phones and Health
French Environmental Health and Safety Agency – AFSSE (April 16, 2003)
In addition to the following three studies, CDPH sent the following 3 study references to the CCST:
Electromagnetic Fields and DNA Damage: Phillips, J.L.; Singh, N.P.; Lai, H.;
Pathophysiology 16(2009) 79-88
Electromagnetic Fields and the Induction of DNA Strand Breaks: Ruiz-
Gomez, M.J.; Martinez-Morillo, M.; Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine
28:201-214, 2009
Radiofrequency and Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Effects
on the Blood-Brain Barrier: Nittby, H.; Grafstrom, G.; Eberhardt, J.L.;
Malmgren, L.; Brun, A.; Persson, B.R.R.; Salford, L.; Electromagnetic
Biology and Medicine 27:103-126, 2008
Other Comments to CCST Smart Meter Study http://www.ccst.us/projects/smart2/