Recommendations
We would like to see the government review the
current Safety Standard Setting Committee and the Standard by a totally
Independent body, see
Standards
We would like to see better Public Representation
on the Standard Setting Committee along with adequately trained medical
practitioners and scientists.
Use a landline before a cellphone.
Limit your cellphone call time to less than 5
minuets.
Use cellphones for emergencies only.
Use handsfree kits and be careful where you carry
cellphones.
Cellphones should never be promoted to
children.
Cellphones should have health warning labels attached to
them that are clearly visible.
Co-site cellsites.
1 Service provider with government regulations governing
price and delivery etc is better than 2, 3, 4 or more with their own set of
cellsites.
Dr Cherry's Recommendations
1. That an independent and objective assessment of the
genotoxic and epidemiological evidence be carried out, by independent
scientists. This would exclude the National Radiation Laboratory, Dr Bates and
Dr Black who have all represented industry.
2. The NZ Standard be
reviewed based on evidence and the precautionary approach as set out in the
Resource Management Act, Sections 5 (2c) and 3 (f) and the Environment Court
in the McIntyre Case.
3. That the Government require public health
based committee to be formed, independent of industry and vested interests,
along the lines of the UK Air Quality Standards Committee, and be required to
set a public health protection based on the principles set out in
recommendation 2.
4. That the Government remove the responsibility for
advice on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation from the National
Radiation laboratory because the NRL maintains the position that the only
effects are heating and electric shock and they ignore or reject the large
body of biological and epidemiological evidence to the contrary.
5.
That health warnings be required on cell phones.
6. That children
should be strongly discouraged from using cell phones in line with UK and
German government policy.
7. That much safer cell phone technologies be
required to be introduced, such as shielded cell phone bodies, aerials and
fiber-optic hands free kits.
8. That cell phones be banned from use
while driving because they have been shown to cause a significant 6-fold
increase in road accidents, including a doubling of the risk of fatal
accidents.
9. That where cell sites are within 300 metres of schools,
home or work places they be removed and relocated unless they have side lobe
protection and direct their beams away from the places where people spend
several hours daily.
10. That the government, as soon as possible,
requires all radio and TV broadcasting in urban areas to be supplied by fiber
optic cables. This would significantly reduce public health effects and allow
mobile phone operators to use low power signals to achieve lower signal to
noise ratios.
11. That the government require all present broadcasters,
including cell phone network operators, to provide the time series changes in
the spatial and radial exposure level patterns for every signal they transmit.
These maps must be available to the public.
12. That the government
funds an independent monitoring company to monitor compliance with public
health based exposure standards, totally independent of the National Radiation
Laboratory as they are never seen by the public to be independent since they
have frequently appeared for industry in resource consent hearings and
environment court appeals.
13. That the government funds a nationwide
study of cancer and other health effects including cardiac, reproductive, and
neurological health effects in relation to the EMR exposure patterns provided
in recommendation 11.