Subject:  FEB warns of cell phone antenna risk.........
Date:     Tue, 30 Dec 1997 092621 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:   (Some of you have already received this message.)

I applaud FEB for this action.....  Particularly for the "message"
contained in the last paragraph, concerning "possible future litigation."

For our lawyers in the group:  isn't this a good idea (under U.S. law as
well) ... and in the power line situation as well as the cell phones????

Cheerio.....

Guru

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:47:05 +0100
From: "[iso-8859-1] LEIF S.DERGREN" 
Subject: warning


December 10, 1997
CELLPHONE ANTENNAS ON BUILDINGS - A WARNING
In a letter to the Assocation of Propertyowners of Stockholm
(Stockholms Fastighetsägarförening) and to several Condominium
associations, FEB (The Swedish Association for the
Electrosensitive) warns that wheras it might be a welcome
revenue in letting space to cell phone operators to put up
their microwave antennas on buildings, this means that tenants
and others who live in the buildings and also in the vicinity
can be UNKNOWINGLY  EXPOSED to microwaves.  Tenants are not
questioned or informed about these antennas. Do the property
owners assume responsibility for exposure damage? If people,are
not informed, they are stripped of the possibility to choose to
move away from the possible exposure.

FEB writes that many of their electrically sensitive members
get severe symptoms in the vicinity of cell phone antennas and
that it is not at all unreasonable to suppose that other
individuals can be injured by the microwaves also, and that
this can lead to future suits for compensation.

The purpose of the letter, FEB writes, "is to inform about the
health risks involved with cell phone antennas on buildings and
to tell the individual propertyowners who are member of the
Association to:
-Not to put up any new antennas.
-To cancel existing contracts with cell phone operators and
remove existing antennas.
-Until this is done, to INFORM  tenants about the existence of
the antennas and the HEALTH RISKS  involved from microwave
exposure from the antennas. Such a warning would be similar to
the warning text on cigarette packages."

FEB enclosed an information brochure, a four page Question and
Answer brochure (in Swedish) on Microwaves and Cell phones and
said that the Association had the permission to reprint as many
copies as needed to inform the property owners and their
tenants and people living in the buildings. The brochure
contained information that the existing "accepted" levels of
exposure are only thermal and created by industry and not any
health officials, and that injuries below these accepted levels
have been shown.

The letter will be important for future litigation in that it
can be shown that the property owners HAVE been informed about
the possible dangers. If the have chosen not to act, this might
be judged not in their favour.

leif.sodergren-skandia.se




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