Subject:  Re hands on (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 26 Feb 1998 104204 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:37:19 +0200 (IST)
From: John Goldsmith 
To: "[iso-8859-1] LEIF S.DERGREN" 
Subject: Re: hands on

      Dear Leif and colleagues:
      The matter of proximity of exposure and level of exposure of
cellphone antennaes was the subject of Planning Commission Hearing in
Christchurch New Zealand in 1996, to which I had been invited to participate, 
partially through the offices of Neill Cherry.  The Judge chairing the panel 
made extensive use of the priciples of prudent avoidance and with the
concurrence of the BellSouth staff, ruled that no persons should be exposed 
to more than 2 microwatts/cm2 in their residence or shcool etc.  The text of 
the findings has been excerpted by me, and may be useful to others.  
If you wish a copy send me your mailing address. (It is not formatted for
email.) Since my abstraction is not authorized, those who want the
complete finding should write to the Presiding Judge.
                John R. Goldsmith, M.D., M.P.H.
                Professor of Epidemiology, gjohn@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, [iso-8859-1] LEIF S.DERGREN wrote:

> --- Inkommet från SK.SODLEA  +46 31 816482          98-02-26 15.09
> 
> January 29, 1998
> SAFETY DISTANCE TO MOBILE PHONE ANTENNAS
> Member of Parliament, Mr. Erling Bager brought up the above
> subject in  in a parliament discussion. He approached the
> Minister of Environment, MS. Anna Lindh. He was concerned over
> the enormous proliferation of mobile phone antennas.
> Mr Bager described how in Old Town in Stockholm, on the Vaster
> Langgata Street in an apartmentbuilding, one can reach out the
> window and almost touch a mobile phone antenna. In another part
> of Stockholm, Bredang, four mobile phone antennas have been
> erected on top of an apartment building. The closest house to
> these antennas is 25 meters (75 feet). On yet another house,
> there is another antenna. A day care center is nearby.
> Mr. Bager wants the government to introduce a safety distance
> from mobile phone antennas. This might be a good idea.
> In Gothenburg, on the Swedish wet coast, the Radisson SAS hotel
> has several antennas and in particular two GSM antennas on each
> side of a window on the top floor. One wonders of this is wise
> or if the hotel guest or the people working in the hotel are
> aware that they might be exposed when sitting  in seeming
> safety inside, only a few feet away from the antennas outside.
> 
> 
> 
> Most people have no idea what these antennas look like or what
> their purpose is. They do not have a chance to choose exposure
> or not.  If there was a safety distance, this kind of hazardous
> placement might have been avoided.      leif.sodergren-skandia.se
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