Subject: Health Risk Mamagement and "new" research results (Benson)..
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 071956 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.......Probably NOT "new"...... But......
.......Some of the information reported by the Sydney Morning Herald
(below) may be garbled - and not entirely accurate - but it is
interesting none-the-less..... Sarah is asking for an update on what
is "going on" within the Carlo empire......?? Good question........
(I believe "Health Risk Management" is what Carlo calls his new
empire....)
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 18:48:42 +1000
From: "Benson, Sarah (Sen L. Allison)"
To: "'rbeavers@llion.org'"
Subject: FW: Health Risk Mamagement and new research results
Roy
can anyone help with this?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Dalton [SMTP:lkdalton@labyrinth.net.au]
> Sent: Friday, 31 March 2000 1:16 PM
> To: Sarah Benson
> Subject: Health Risk Mamagement
>
>
> Carlo said in his letter that he was approaching
> "the Health Risk Mamagement Group to help us with this
> public health intervention step, and to put tgether a
> consumer information package...".
>
> Would you be able to ask the Parliamentary Library to search
> out who are the Health Risk Mamagement Group, their aims and
> the nature of their consumer packages and whether they now
> have one on RF exposure?
>
> The material may provide some useful models for the Inquiry
> to look at.
>
> A "Prudent Avoidance Campaign" like the Quit campaign on
> cigarette smoking could be something to consider. With
> health funds financing it. It is a public health problem as
> much as a personal risk problem, something that should not
> be lost sight of. The tobacco companies are nothing like the
> giants telecommunication carriers are.
>
> SMH article
>
> Thursday, March 30, 2000
>
> New evidence links mobiles to cancer
>
> By JUDITH WHELAN and wires
>
> The United States Food and Drug Administration is investigating
> whether mobile phones can cause cancer, after two studies have
> shown a link between their use and the disease.
>
> Neither study has been published, but their preliminary
> results have
> been enough to trigger the FDA investigation.
>
> One study, by the American Health Foundation, in New York, found
> that mobile phone users had double the risk of developing a certain
> type of brain tumour than people who did not use them.
>
> The second study, by Integrated Laboratory Systems, in North
> Carolina, found that DNA in human blood cells broke down when
> exposed to large doses of mobile- phone radiation, possibly
> laying the
> genetic groundwork for cancer.
>
> "We are not sure what this means," said Dr George Carlo, an
> epidemiologist who headed the research project from 1993
> until last
> year. "This could be a colossal coincidence or the tip of
> the iceberg."
>
> With 86 million mobile phone users in the US and 30,000 new users
> signing up daily, "this translates into a potentially
> significant public
> health problem", the FDA said.
>
> In Australia, more than 7 million people regularly use
> mobile phones.
>
> This month, The Herald revealed that Royal North Shore Hospital
> had advised its staff to avoid using mobile phones if
> possible, or to
> use them with a hands-free earphone and microphone "to avoid
> possible concentration of radiation near vital or sensitive
> organs".
>
> The executive director of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications
> Association, Mr Peter Russell, said the advice of the World Health
> Organisation was that "based on the scientific evidence available
> today, there are no adverse health effects for people using mobile
> phones today".
>
> "There have been some studies which have shown certain aspects
> need more investigation," he said. But no study had been
> successfully replicated showing that mobile phones had any
> detrimental effect on health.
>
> Very few human studies have been done on the effects of mobile
> phones, which have been widely available for less than 15 years.
> Several Australian bodies, including the National Health and Medical
> Research Council, are conducting research into the possible health
> effects of the phones' use.
>
> The head of the radiation-biology branch of the FDA's Centre for
> Devices and Radiological Health, Dr Russell Owen, said the
> two US
> studies raised interesting scientific questions, "but are no
> cause for
> alarm".
>
> The details of the FDA research program will be released
> later this
> year.
>
>
> © Sydney Morning Herald
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