Children and Wireless Devices Cell & Cordless Phones, Tablets, Laptops, Wi-Fi & Baby Monitors

What You Need to Know

Congregation Beth El 1301 Oxford Street, Berkeley, CA Thursday, Noon, October 10 Bring your own lunch Refreshments provided

Topics
Marketing to children and babies Push-back from the American Academy of Pediatrics 10 Best iPhone Apps for Babies Fisher-Price Toys Existing Exposure Limits What About the Science? Identified Risks
Breast cancer video

What About Cell & Cordless Phone. Wi-Fi? What About iPads, Tablets , & Laptops More Information

Todays Marketplace: Baby Cellphone Apps

Best Baby Apps Got restless toddler syndrome? These apps will amuse and educate.
By Kate Silver from Parents Magazine

Smartphones don't make smart babies The American Academy of Pediatrics discourages any electronic "screen time" for infants and toddlers under 2, while older children should be limited to one to two hours a day.

Push-back from the AAP

Urged the FCC to review its exposure limits adopted in 1996: The AAP believes the inquiry to reassess the radiation standard presents an opportunity to review its impacts on childrens health and well-being. In the past, such standards have generally been based on the impact of exposure on an adult male. Children, however, are not little adults and are disproportionately impacted by all environmental exposures, including cell phone radiation. In fact, according to IARC, when used by children, the average RF energy deposition is two times higher in the brain and 10 times higher in the bone marrow of the skull, compared with mobile phone use by adults.

10 Best iPhone Apps for Babies

Peek a Boo Barn/Peek a Boo Wild White Noise Baby It offers 17 different background noises with adjustable volume. Balloonimals Adams Game This app is great for toddlers who are starting to understand language Elmos Monster Maker Tiny Tunes Toy Piano Wheels on the Bus Itsy Bitsy Spider Old Mac Uncolor Baby Monitor & Alarm for iPhone and Android Phone Alert when there is a noise in your baby's room, the 'Baby Monitor & Alarm' will call you Mum's Voice the 'Baby Monitor & Alarm' is able to play any song or you can even record your own voice

Fisher-Price Toys

Babys Teething Rattle

(Holds parents cellphone, drool protected)

Elmo's World Talking Cell Phone

Friendly Flip Phone

Existing Exposure Limits

Based on a very large man (97% of the population is smaller) with only one tissue type in his head
Anyone smaller absorbs more microwave radiation

Assumes only biological effect is heating

Thousand of papers report biological effect without heating

Devices held immediately again the head or body

Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) The absorbed microwave radiation in tissues
Peak SAR <1.6 Watts per kilogram (W/kg) for any 1 gram of tissue averaged over 30 minutes

Devices far away (e.g., cell towers, Wi-Fi)

Whole-body Specific Absorption Rate (SARwb)
Peak SARwb <0.08 W/kg averaged over 30 minutes Brain, female breast, salivary gland in cheek, allowed to absorb 20-times more radiation than whole body!

Exposure Limits Issues

Europe and many other countries
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)
Industry-funded, self-perpetuating, non-governmental organization without medical or public health expertise, responsible to no government Peak SAR=2W/kg averaged for any 10 grams of tissue averaged over 30 minutes Relative to U.S., ICNIRP allows more than 3 times the absorption of microwave radiation FCC pushing to harmonize exposure standard to ICNRIP

Impact on Exposure Limits:

Study of young children with various weights of tissues

Research funded by Environmental Health Trust

FCC Approved Cellphone Certification

Industry-design process
Exclusive used
Pour liquid into mannequin
Assumes interior of head is a single tissue

Robotic arm inside head measures absorbed radiation Phone is certified to meet exposure limit

Smaller heads will absorb greater radiation

Childrens tissues absorb double to 10 times the radiation compared to an adult
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What About the Science?

Two examples, there is a many additional studies

An independent Swedish team found when cellphone or cordless phone use began as a teenager there was a significant* 8-fold increased risk of brain cancer [1]
In comparison adults had a 2-fold risk of brain cancer

An industry-funded European team found more than a doubled significant greater than doubled risk of brain cancer after more than 2.8 years of use in children aged 719 (median age 13) and 99.9% significant trend that the risk increases with increasing years since first use [2]
Conclusion The absence of an exposureresponse relationship either in terms of the amount of mobile phone use or by localization of the brain tumor argues against a causal association.
* Significant means statistically significant, equivalent to a >95% confidence level

Identified Risks to Date

Strong evidence, multiple studies
Brain cancer Hearing nerve tumor (acoustic neuroma) Cheek salivary (parotid) gland Female breast cancer Leukemia Male fertility
Reduced sperm counts Sperm DNA fragmentation

Weaker evidence
Meningioma Testicular cancer Eye cancer

Image courtesy of Dr. Devra Davis

Breast Cancer Video

Channel 2, KTVU-TV, Emmy award winning 3 minute video
http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/specialreport-keeping-cell-phone-in-bra-may-lead/vhPF8

Case study just published [3]

What About Cell & Cordless Phones, Wi-Fi?

Cellphones
All have warnings about not keeping them against your head and body
Nokia : This product meets RF exposure guidelineswhen positioned at least 1.5 cm (~1/4 inch) away from the body Motorola keep the mobile device and its antenna at least 2.5 [cm] (1 inch) from your body. Image courtesy of Dr. Devra Davis BlackBerry keep the BlackBerry device at least 0.98 in. (25 mm) from your body (including the abdomen of pregnant women and the lower abdomen of teenagers)

What About Cell & Cordless Phones, Wi-Fi?

iPhone
Go to Settings > General > About > Legal > RF Exposure
Would any interested customer be able to find this? Can some read what it says?

Cordless phone
Same risk as cellphones Base station (where handset sits)
Transmits 24/7 Do not keep anywhere close to a bed
Unplug at night (there is no power switch)

Wi-Fi Routers
Locate as far away from where occupants will be
Unplug at night (there is no power switch)

What About iPads, Tablets , & Laptops?

FCC exposure limits applicable only at 20 cm (~8 inches)
At 4 inches, may exceed limit by a factor of 4 At 2 inches, may exceed limit by a factor of 16 At 1 inch may exceed limit by a factor of 64 At inch may exceed limit by a factor of 256

More Information
Environmental Health Trust: http://ehtrust.org/
For cellphone radiation info
http://ehtrust.org/cell-phones-radiation-3/

For ways to reduce radiation when using a cellphone

http://ehtrust.org/take-action/campaign-for-safer-cell-phones/ For Doctors Pamplett:
http://www.saferphonezone.com/site/wpcontent/uploads/2012/10/DoctorsAdvice_Nov28_4Print_Draft1.pdf

ElectromagneticHealth.Org: http://electromagnetichealth.org/
For info on a SF Commonwealth Club presentation

http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/cc-video/

Microwave News http://microwavenews.com./

For industrys money laundering to their friends
http://microwavenews.com/docs/MWN.11%289%29-06.pdf

California Brain Tumor Association: http://www.cabta.org/

For information on what they do
http://www.cabta.org/#what-we-do

Link to pass- around document, Childrens Health Expert Panel: Cell Phones & Wi-FiAre Children, Fetuses and Fertility at Risk?

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/09/21/cell-phone-wifi-radiation.aspx

References
1. Hardell & Carlberg. Mobile phones, cordless phones and the risk for brain tumours. International Journal of Oncology 35: 5-17, 2009 2. Aydin D, Feychting M, Schz J, et al Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumors in Children and Adolescents: A Multicenter CaseControl Study. J Natl Cancer Inst 2011;103:113 3. West JG, Kapoor NS, Liao S-Y, Chen JW, Bailey L, Nagourney RA. Case Report, Multifocal Breast Cancer in Young Women with Prolonged Contact between Their Breasts and Their Cellular Phones. Case Reports in Medicine Volume 2013, Article ID 354682, 5 page http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/354682

Thank You

Childrens Health Expert Panel: Cell Phones & Wi-FiAre Children, Fetuses and Fertility at Risk?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archiv e/2013/09/21/cell-phone-wifi-radiation.aspx
Courtesy of Camilla Rees, President ElectromagneticHealth.Org

Latina place cellphone in cleavage

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Dominican Republic, Credit Thos Robinson, 2010

Cellphone Placed in Bra

Cellphone Placed in Bra

Lloyd Morgan Lloyd.L.Morgan@gmail.com

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Result: Multiple primary breast cancers

Caveata case report

Invasive multiple primary tumors in 39 year old ChineseAmerican who used cellphone in her bra 4 hrs/day for 7 years