Subject: (Kelley) CTIA responds to the Wash Post article (fwd)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 062850 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Hi folks!
.......When you read (below) the statement by Tom Wheeler (head of
CTIA) ... I think it becomes apparent that the "next" phase we are
entering in the cell-phone-health-risk drama is FUNDING for future
research -- which by now surely everyone recognizes is required!!!
I am being repetitive, I know, but I nevertheless want to remind that:
**any** future funding program should ensure that industry/government
(both having a conflict of interest) **are not involved** in the
management and control of that funding or the research it sponsors.....!!!
A system of total "public-interest" management and control must be
created....
.....guru offers a few short comments in the text below......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
........DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST?????..........
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 01:20:55 -0700
From: Libby Kelley
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Cc: thistle@sover.net
Subject: CTIA responds to the Wash Post article
Statement from CTIA in Response to Washington Post Article
May 24, 1999
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- May 22, 1999-Responding to a Washington
Post news story today on recent studies on radio frequency (RF) exposure
and the wireless industry's plan for additional research, Tom Wheeler,
President and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry
Association (CTIA) stated, "The studies that were mentioned
in the story are a matter for scientific review and commentary. It is my
understanding that such review is underway on many of these studies and
that, while scientifically interesting, they do not establish a public
health concern. The wireless industry will continue to leave scientific
interpretations up to the scientists." [........If only they
would!!!....guru]
The wireless telecommunications industry in the U.S.
committed $25 million over a five-year period to support research in this
area. The funds, set up in a blind trust, were administered by
an independent research organization, Wireless Technology Research, LLC
(WTR). That organization contracted with universities, scientists and
independent research laboratories to carry out various specific research
projects. [......That (the WTR research program) was a sham and a joke
and a total failure in terms of returns on the dollars expended..... It
should not be the model for -- or the vehicle for -- future
funding....guru....]
From the onset, the WTR program was intended to run five
years, and funded at $25 million. Now that this phase of
industry-supported research is concluding, the U.S. wireless industry
continues to support appropriate and necessary research growing out of the
WTR-funded work. [.....Ditto from the preceding paragraph.....]
In April, 1999, Mr. Wheeler wrote to the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, which monitors a variety of public health issues, asking
for the agency's guidance. In his letter, Mr. Wheeler reiterated, "the
industry's commitment to fund appropriate research following up on the
work of the WTR." Such work, he said, must be "independent and
credible." To that end, he asked the agency's guidance in developing the
best and most credible "next generation" of activity in this area.
[.....Judging by the statement of Ms Jacabson (in yesterday's postings)
spokeswoman for the FDA -- the FDA is continuing a course of "looking the
other way" about the cell phone health problems, as they have done thus
far.....guru....]
Many industry manufacturers run their own on-going research
programs, independent of CTIA-supported work. In addition, new research
programs have emerged over the past five years, including those supported
by the United Nations' World Health Organization and individual
government-sponsored efforts. CTIA welcomes such independent,
peer-reviewed scientific inquiry, and will continue to support
independent, peer-reviewed work where appropriate and necessary.
[.......BEWARE!!! I fear that the cell phone industry is indeed counting
on "the usual" help and comforting, reassuring findings from the WHO
(the World Health Organization)..... That body has not established any
record at all of INDEPENDENCE from the industry/government vested
interests in EMF matters...... Truly, however, WHO is one of the
institutions that COULD become a genuine force for "the people's" interest
in these health matters vis-a-vis the "conflict of interest" industries
and governments'.....guru.....]
Libby Kelley
Executive Director
Ad Hoc Associaiton of Parties concerned About the FCC's Radiofrequency
Radiation Health and Safety Rules
aka Council on Wireless Technology Impacts
Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org
Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html