Subject: Re Warning labels on cellular phones in USA (fwd)
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 054530 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 10:46:29 +0300 (IDT)
From: John Goldsmith
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Cc: emfguru@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Warning labels on cellular phones in USA (fwd)
Marjorie and friends:
The principle of using warning lables has much to recommend it.
Based on a hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology of our
Knesset (Congress), there was strong support for it, in which I joined.
I have just sent a letter to the Chair of the Committee strongly
supporting a labelling regulation which will provide exposure data of the
sort that Neils Kuster has produced .(see Microwave News,
November/December,1997). However merely labelling the equipment as
possibly being a health hazard, in a legal sense, can be interpreted
as putting the responsibility of deciding to accept the risk on the
consumer. This could be counter-productive. So while we are pushing for
labelling, let us insist that it be based on testing of prototypes.
This was done latterly for tar and nocotine levels in cigarettes,
following a period of simple warning, which the tobacco industry did not
object to for the reason I mention.
John Goldsmith, M.D., M.P.H.
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Roy L. Beavers wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:36:28
> From: marjlundquist@usa.net
> To: rbeavers@llion.org
> Cc: emrall@aol.com
> Subject: Warning labels on cellular phones in USA
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> Roy, last fall, when Roger Coghill filed his lawsuit to require the placement of warning labels on cellular telephones sold in the UK, he asked me to send him a letter of support, which I did. But I also got inspired, thinking that the USA also ought to require the placement of warning labels on cellular telephones. So, remembering how a warning was placed on cigarette packages in the USA by the Surgeon General, I wrote to the U.S. Surgeon General to make this request.
> I did not know it, but that office was vacant. Audrey Manley, Acting Surgeon General, had left the U.S. Public Health Service, and the new Surgeon General, David Satcher, had not yet received Congressional confirmation (though he has now).
> When action was finally taken on my correspondence, the decision was made to send it to the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. The reason was that the CDRH has the responsibility in the USA for assuring the safety of cellular telephones. I received a letter dated April 28, 1998, from the CDRH's Chief of Radiation Biology, in reply to my initial correspondence with the Surgeon General.
> I have now replied to that letter, setting forth a number of reasons why a warning label is needed on cellular telephones in the USA without delay.
> If anyone else in the USA wants to support this effort, I can mail a copy of the correspondence, if I am sent a mailing address, and one dollar (to cover mailing and photocopying costs). [I also request that each person provide me an e-mail address, so I can keep in touch.]
> I would prefer not to take the time to key in the long documents, in order to put this on the Internet (and there is a diagram that would not be easy to do without a scanner, which I don't have).
> So I suggest you post this notice, and let people who are interested write to me, if they want to receive my mailing.
> I just thought you and others would like to know that what Roger is attempting to do in the UK is also being attempted here in the USA, though in a less costly (and less litigious) manner. -- Marjorie
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> Marjorie Lundquist, Ph.D., C.I.H.
> Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
> P. O. Box 11831
> Milwaukee, WI 53211-0831 USA
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> P.S. If anybody would like to include an extra donation to help defray the costs of Roger Coghill's lawsuit in the UK, include your contribution in what you send me, and I will consolidate these donations, convert them to UK currency, and send them to Roger in a lump sum, adding a contribution of my own.
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