Subject:  Australian AP  Senate inquiry on mobile phones (Bowman
Date:     Mon, 13 Dec 1999 113224 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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......This is a repeat (another "press" version) of the action we
reported last week via Senator Allison's press release -- now posted
under "Cell Phones" on guru's website.....

Thanks, Joe.....  Do you detect ANYWHERE in the RICH health
bureaucracies of the U.S. any pangs of guilt or sense of
responsibility ... that the rest of the world is pursuing this
matter so much more aggressively than we are???

Cheerio.....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com

.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
                       NEW!!!  Website 
...................People are more important than profits.................

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:53:07 -0500
From: "Bowman, Joseph D." 
To: "'Beavers, Roy (EMF-L)'" 
Subject: Australian AP:  Senate inquiry on mobile phones

>                 Copyright 1999 AAP Information Services Pty. Ltd.  
>                                 AAP NEWSFEED
> 
>                            December 11, 1999, Saturday
> 
> 
> HEADLINE: PR Wire: Democrats deliver Senate inquiry on mobile phones
> 
> BODY:
> 
> Democrats deliver Senate inquiry on mobile phones    
> 
>    The Senate late yesterday agreed to a Senate inquiry into
> electro-magnetic emissions (EME), particularly from mobile phones.
> Democrats Telecommunications spokesperson, Senator Allison
> successfully moved to refer the matter to the Senate Environment,
> Communications, Information Technology and the Arts References
> Committee, which she chairs. 


> The inquiry will start in March 2000 and report in October that year.
> Senator Lyn Allison said the inquiry will be a comprehensive
> review of:    . the latest research into public health risks of exposure
> to EME    . progress on the Federal Government's $4.5 million research
> fund.    . the role of government and industry in standard setting
 
> Senator Allison said the inquiry is necessary because of the
> Federal Government's ongoing failure to ensure that public health issues
> are properly considered in standard setting for mobile phone emissions,
> The Minister for Communications and the industry refuse to
> acknowledge what most Australians know intuitively; that it is not just
> the heat from mobile phones that is a potential health risk.    "The
> huge uptake of hands-free devices show that people want
> to limit the risks to their health and many do so because they have
> already experienced alarming symptoms from their phone use," Senator
> Allison said.    "Telstra's own research on mice showed a
> much higher rate of lymphoma in the group exposed to mobile phone
> frequencies - a study which was ridiculed by Minister
> Richard Alston at the time. Other studies show that human cells,
> including DNA, are damaged by exposure to mobile phone EME.     

> She noted that the Government, through the Australian
> Communications Authority, disbanded the Standards Committee earlier
> this year when it would not agree to relax standards for mobile phone
> emissions and handed this responsibility to ARPANSA.

>    "Under the new arrangement, the Senate needs to be assured
> that occupational health and safety matters will be considered in
> standard setting. The CSIRO has remained staunchly opposed to relaxing
> standards, arguing that the research which already indicates a
> link between EME and cancer, suggests that no further relaxation should
> occur," said Senator Allison.

>    "This will also be an opportunity for the Senate to scrutinise
> the expenditure of the Commonwealth's $4.5 million fund for research into
> and information on EME and
> to look at the latest research in Australia and overseas," Senator Allison
> concluded.    
> 
> Contacts: Justin O'Brien on  0411 473 697, Senator Lyn Allison 0407 691
> 512    
> 
> LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
> 
> LOAD-DATE: December 10, 1999
>  
> 
> 


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> Inc. All rights reserved.
> 
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