Finland limits mobile phone use of children + Genotoxic effects

I am relieved!

Säteilyturvakeskus, the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority Finland (STUK) announced 7th of January 2008 a recommendation [1]:

 - "Children's mobile phone use should be limited" (Lasten matkapuhelimen käyttöä on hyvä rajoittaa)

After several (years of) warnings from Osmo Hänninen (professor in physiology), STUK finally listens. Maybe Osmo's book (in Finnish) and our little TV tour in the summer 2008 helped? Or maybe professor Dariusz Leszczynski finally managed to explain to those Warm-Only-Fellows in the STUK what biological effects mean?

Update 26th June 2009: Professor Osmo Hänninen and I met the Minister of Health, Paula Risikko, in October 2008 in Helsinki and discussed about the risk of children, among other topics. I highly respect Mrs Risikko because after our meeting she visited the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) and most likely she was able to influence STUK representatives to give the recommendation in January 2009.

Additionally, I submitted through Mrs. Terttu Savolainen an Official Inquiry (In Finnish) to the highest doctor in the Ministry of Health, Dr Mikko Paunio. This Inquiry (dated 23th September 2008) was related to DNA-damage of mobile phones and I asked whether the Ministry of Health will advice the Ministry of Transport and Communication to stop the shut down of landlines in counties in Finland. My Inquiry was so sensitive, that so far (June 2009) I have not received any answer. I have twice asked Mr Paunio about it, without response from him or from STUK.  

 Update 10th January 2008:

- Please, check a large selection of biological effects related papers.

- What about children in the countryside (of Finland and Sweden) where the operators have been allowed to shut down the POTS networks? How does the STUK Finland recommendation protect these children (any more)? Please, see my story about the Nordic Health Disaster.

Good to know: Our cells in our body use minimal currents (=electricity) for communication and regeneration. All this is dependant on Earth's magnetic field and Schumann resonances.  Mobile phones, base stations, electrical devices and power grid induce much stronger currents to our body. Additionally, some of these devices work at the same frequencies as our brain waves. Microwave radiation is more effective (damaging) than ELF (powerline) radiation. The following (rough) picture by Neil Cherry describes these microwave effects versus official ICNIRP radiation guidance levels. No wonder people (and especially children) get sick :-(

Russian researchers have known these biological effects for decades [1, 2 ,3 ], therefore the official warning of Russia is worth reading (included in my previous posting). The current, acute heat-shock focused ICNIRP radiation guidance levels [1, 2, 3] in most western European countries do not protect population from continuous, chronic exposure. 

I welcome you to read the following paper from Neil Cherry:

Evidence that Electromagnetic Radiation is Genotoxic -  PDF 1 Mb

This paper nicely explains those biological mechanisms and it was presented in the European Parliament in 2000 and extended in 2002.

European Parliament announced a warning in September 2008 in it's Mid-Term Review. Please, check chapters 21-23. European Environmental Agency (EEA) has cleverly indicated these risks in 2001 in their book 'Late lessons from early warnings' . BioInitiative Report contains thousands of EMF&Health Risks -related references. What a pity that European Commission is so heavily influenced by industry that fast actions have not followed (yet) :-(

To understand all this, I recommend the book 'Cross Currents'. Dr Robert O. Becker showed in his pioneering work of how regeneration and healing takes place in our body. And how this is all dependent of electromagnetic forces. Becker was twice nominated for the Nobel prize in medicine.

Did I manage to describe a radical innovation? Is this a paradigm shift ala Kuhn? Any comments about the STUK-Finland announcement?

Comments

[Maria]

I was extremely surprised by the pressrelease. Especially since STUK basically published the same information on their webb years ago. WHAT made STUK suddenly take active and "offensive" measures??!! Could it also be that it is becoming impossible to turn the Interphone-study into a "no risk-study" and that Interphone really will be released this year?

If this is the case it's quite understandable that STUK wants to avoid too much critic for not having warned the public earlier. I don't know. But it's already very late when it comes to warnings anyway...

[Mikko Ahonen]

Hello again Maria

Indeed, STUK seems to be confused and tries to save ... what is to be saved.

STUK representatives in general still (in March 2009) talk (only) about tissue heating and SAR values. I just read one of their evaluations which pointed out that radiation power density values in mobile phones have decreased when phones have been changed from analog (NMT) to digital (3G). With this statement they were indicating the current phones are safer than older ones.

Well, they could have pointed out that the pulsed or 3G-modulated signal is biologically more active than non-pulsed, see: www.bioinitiative.org/report/docs/section_14.pdf , www.hese-project.org/hese-uk/en/papers/ecolog2000.pdf

+++ An interesting new publication:

Pathophysiology, Volume 16:

www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235138%239999%23999999999%2399999%23FLA%23&_cdi=5138&_pubType=J&_auth=y&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=4f96fdd09740d57173f63be59ccce571

Have a Great Day

Mikko

[sally]

Really interesting stuff, and thanks Mikko for adding that publication - as a mother in the UK I must admit it is slightly worrying that children freely use mobile phones without any thought to the risk...texting and what not all day long! I was discussing this on http://www.gurgle.co.uk a while back and to be honest no-one else supported my concerns - it's nice to know Finland are at least on the job!

[Mikko Ahonen]

Dear Sally,

Thank you for your nice reply. I am glad that moms and dads are talking :-)

To me texting is OK (with some limitations). I am more worried about kids making calls the mobile phone attached to their heads or having long 3G/GPRS surfing sessions the mobile phone/communicator pressed against the stomach/genitials.

Some latest interesting articles:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19328536

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/reproductiveresearchcenter/docs/agradoc295.pdf

Please, be patient in spreading the word in the Gurgle service.

Yours,

Mikko