Subject:  Re Industry is not all bad (fwd)
Date:     Sun, 3 May 1998 072425 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 11:56:19 +0100 (BST)
From: Alasdair Philips 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" , emfguru@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Industry is not all bad (fwd)

Hi again

I have a great respect for Ed and some of the points he made were 
valid BUT.... having been in the industry for 30 years ..... my
memory is as follows:

When the Swedish trade unions first came up with their proposed
restrictions the computer industry said "on your bikes ~ get lost"

The industry said that it would more than double the final cost
of VDUs and they wouldn't even consider it as it was also 
technically very difficult.

However, one firm, NOKIA (yes they also do now make nasty GSM
phones ~ I get more EMF complaints from users of NOKIA GSM phones
than of any other make but it may just be that they are market
leader in the UK and have far more users overall) decided that
there was a niche market in low EMF VDUs at an elevated price
(which turned out to be about 50% more initially).  Interestingly
CH5 TV News in the UK reported a couple of weeks ago that NOKIA
have a low radiation GSM phone available now, though I haven't 
checked it out yet.

This immediately got most Swedish firms and Councils, etc, to
insist that MPR compliant monitors were bought and NOKIA did
very well.  Many other European countries had people who also
were prepared to pay more for a safer monitor and NOKIA did very
well from this business.  I think they were a good, forward looking,
company and should be given credit for this action.  It was their
action that pushed the industry into complying.

Other suppliers and manufacturers were then inundated by people
complaining that they didn't supply low radiation VDUs.  The 
technical arguement had been demolished by NOKIA's production
VDUs and so the industry was effectively forced to follow suit
or lose business and goodwill.

Alasdair


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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:28:27 -0500
>From: Edward Maxey 
>To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
>Subject: Industry is not all bad
>
>Hello Roy Beavers, 
>
>It is a mistake to believe that epidemiology has not influenced
>manufacturers
>of electrical equipment.  The MPR2 standard derived from Swedish
>studies. 

>Marketers of computer monitors widely advertised compliance with the
>MPR2
>standard until recently.  It seems to have become so accepted that few
>have
>bothered to publish it after March, 1997.
>
...snipped ....
 
 
Alasdair Philips    (aphilips@gn.apc.org)




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