Subject: Australian Senate EMR Inquiry (Maisch)..
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 040010 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:14:22 +1000
From: Don Maisch
To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org
Subject: The Australian Senate EMR Inquiry declines to consider foreign language submissions
Dear Roy
Now that your back, here's an update to the Australian Senate EMR Inquiry.
At the end of this message is a brief outline of two of the several foreign
language reports that have been submitted to the Senate Inquiry . This
closed for submissions on 16 June and they were received before that date.
About two weeks I rang the Inquiry Chairperson about foreign language
submissions and she said to send them in as translations should be able to
be arranged. Advice from the Inquiry Secretariet now contridicts this.
Unfortunately as the Parliamentary bureaucracy will now not consider these
submissions and they look like ending up in the Inquiry's dust bin. Not
good for an Inquiry that is calling for such information. The excuse is
that they do not do translations and are not basically not interested in
having any done. The Democrats spent some time trying to resolve this
impasse, but to no avail.
The current Federal Government is supposed to be committed to
"Multiculturalism" but only when it suits them. Consider the two reports
(below) and what they could have added to the Inquiry.
FROM SWEDEN
This comes from the Sweden organisation FEB and consists of a report
written on behalf of a commission of the Swedish government. It very much
deals with EMF exposure as an OH&S issue. (written in Swedish, 83 pages)
The report "New Diagnosis" was written by Robert Olin, MD and Professor
Emeritus of Preventive Medicine. The report has been prepared on behalf of
a Parliamentary Commission appointed by the Swedish government. It was
published in October of 1999.
This report was commissioned as a result of ongoing research carried out
by several organisations, including the Karolinska Institute, The Swedish
National Institute of Occupational Health, the Swedish Union of Clerical
and Technical Employees in Industry, Lule College and Institute of
Technology, Lund University and the Orebro Medical Centre in Sweden.
Per Segerbach from Sweden sent me some brief translations from the report
as follows:
"From the back page of the book:
"In medical care, the research community and among decision makers the
attitude versus the "new diagnoses" have often been blocked by out-of-date
views and prejudices.
>From the Summary chapter of the book:
. . ."But it is also true that living conditions for people in a highly
developed country like Sweden, have changed considerably during the last
century, compared to earlier centuries. The "exploding" technical
development all the way from phone and radio use into the current
"communication society" as well as the multitude of new chemical products
and physical technologies, for most people leads to very different living
conditions."
...
"This document is founded on the belief that for many "new diagnoses" the
common symptoms (see below) have existed for a long time, but that the
conditions have become more visible, e.g. due to the above mentioned
changes in the society. In addition, it is likely that the true occurrence
have increased, which may hypothetically depend on the dramatic increase
over the last decades in daily sensory stimulus and chemical and
physiological environmental influence."
. . . "The document presents in brief, a number of "new diagnoses" and in
chapter 14 especially, symptoms that are more or less common, namely
tiredness, sleep disorders, vegetative and neuro-cognitive symptoms. Pain
and disturbed "psychological equilibrium" as well as symptoms from mucus
are also common."
. . . "In the same chapter an overall hypothesis about the biological
mechanism is discussed that might explain the majority of the "new
diagnosis" -conditions - but naturally not all, because in a minority of
the cases it is likely to be purely psychological circumstances or somatic
diseases that are the cause of the symptoms."
...
The document critically reviews the role and position of psychiatry in the
treatment and attitudes towards the patients suffering from "new diagosis"
-disorders.
The hypothesis relates to and enlarges the theory/hypothesis that the
Swedish research group Rönnbäck-Hansson formulated regarding defects/damage
in the astrogliacell membrane caused by disturbances in the transport
through the membrane of e.g. the important energy- and signal substance
glutamate."
FROM UKRAINE
For some time I have been in correspondence with members of the
Biophysicial Society in the Ukraine and our discussions have mainly
focussed on the issue of "harmonization" between the ICNIRP guidelines and
those developed by the former USSR.
I suggested that an up to date report on the Eastern European EMF
literature would be useful in the West. Some months ago they agreed to do a
review, aimed at meeting the June 16th SenateInquiry deadline. This report
focusses on research not covered by the above German report.
To briefly quote from the authors about their 35 page review:
"In this review the experimental and theoretical works on athermal
influence of EMR HF to human health are considered. The works were carried
out in former USSR, Ukraine and Russia from 1960 to 2000. The questions of
EMF HF exposure standards are discussed."
The authors of this review are:
1.Kosytsky Nikolai Nikolaevich
15.04.1953.
Head of a laboratory of Informational support of Scientific Research
Centre "Vidhuk",
Dr. of Science of biology, associate editor on staff of the journal
"Physics of the Alive".
Field of scientific interests: theoretical biophysics,irradiation an
absorbtion of EMR by
biological objects,molecular dynamics.
2. Ponezha Grigoryi Vasil`evich
10.08.1946.
Head of the laboratory of quantum physics of the alive of SRC "Vidhuk"
Dr. of physics and mathematics. Field of the scientific interests:
problems of the
interaction of EMR and matter, in particular with biological objects.
3. Nizhelska Aljona Igorevna
07.05.1964.
researcher of laboratory of special measurement of SRC "Vidhuk"
Field of the scientific interests: precise optical methods of
investigation of the state of
biological systems, effects of irradiations of different nature to
biological objects.
A translation of the table of contents is:
Effect of low-intensity very high frequency electromagnetic radiation on the
human organism
(Review Russian and Ukrainian Scientific Research Publications)
1. Introduction
2. Natural electromagnetic environment
3. Historical review of the research from USSR
4. Physics of (approach) to low intensity resonance absorption of very high
frequency electromagnetic radiation.
5. Reaction of cells to electromagnetic radiation
6. Experiments on animals
7. Very high frequency electromagnetic radiation (GHz) in medicine
8. Mechanism of effect (influence) of very high frequency electromagnetic
radiation on biological objects
9. Health standards and regulations
10. Effect of high frequency telecommunications on human
11. Discussion
12. Conclusion
13. Attachments
14. References
Now it seems that the only way these reports will ever be available in
English is if a charable organisation can be found to fund the translations.
Sincerely
Don Maisch
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