A lot of the studies used to determine human exposure standards are based on high power, short term test designs that are then used to extrapolate downward in order to arrive at presumed safety levels. But most exposures to the radio-frequencies in the real world, especially for those living near antennas, are of the long-term, low-level variety. These have very different biological parameters associated with them. So a lot of the research that's been done is of an inappropriate kind, and it's being used to reach inappropriate conclusions. The low-level, short term studies are much fewer, but every one of them is disturbing. Following is a list of different studies, with their source .

EMR Alliance Network News, Summer 1997 p. 38

The Wire Code system of categorization of residences developed by Wertheimer and Leeper (see study by them below) does
a good job of categorizing residences with respect to the degree of hazard to their occupants from the raio-frequency fields
surrounding electric power lines, even though this was not the intent of Wertheimer and Leeper when they developed their
system of wire coding of residences.

The recent review of Scientific evidence associating adverse health effects with proximity to electric power lines by a committee
of the National Research Council, as directed by the U.S. Congress, was limited to consideration of power frequency
(50-60Hz) electromagnetic fields; it was reported on October 31, 1996, that there was no convincing evidence that such fields
caused any human disease.

However, another finding of this same committee was that there is a statistically significant association between childhood
luekemia and the Wire Code Category of the child's residence; furthermore, this associations was robust, meaning that it is
persistent, and therefore likely to be real.

The EMR Alliance, Network News, Summer 1997, p.1 &p.12

An Australian study, funded by Telstra, conducted at the Royal Adelaide Hospital by Dr. Michael Repacholi (who has
previosly espoused that cell phones are safe), Professor Tony Basten, Dr. Alan Harris ans statistician Val Gebski revealed a
highly significant doubling of cancer rates in an group of mice exposed to GSM-type pulsed microwaves (in the cellular and PCS range) at a power density roughly equal to a cell phone transmitting for two half-hour periods each day; this was pulsed transmission as from a handset, not the steady transmission of a cell phone tower.

A significant increase on B-cell lymphomas was evident. The implications of the B-cell (rather than the normal T-cell)
lymphomas here is that the B-cell effects are implicated in roughl 85% of all cancers. Additional significance to this study is the
fact that these changes occured at what are called "far-field" exposures, not the near field exposures such as would be
experienced by cell phone users themselves. This has implications for those living near transmitter sites, as well as those in the
immediate presence of people using cell phones. It's like the secondary smoke issue. Stand back from someone using a
wireless device. Even the FDA recommends this, but few people know about it.

The experiment was conducted as a blind trial, using absolutely identical wquipment and conditions for two groups of 100
mice. The only difference between handling the two groups was that the power ot one antenna was never switched on. Over
18 months, the exposed mice had 2.4 times the tumor rate of the unexposed - but this was later corrected downwards to a
more confident 2-times claim to remove other possible influences.

THE EMR Alliance

"Analysts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have recommended that EMF be classified as "probable human
carcinogens." Excerpted from the Executive Summary of the external review draft of EPA's report, 'Evaluation of the Potential
Carcinogenecity of Electromagnetic Fields,' June 1990, unpublished."

from The Microwave News:

(*Special thanks to Jan Goldfarb, Farmington Hills, MI, for providing this source.)

"One long-term RF/MW exposure study that has been completed supports a cancer risk. The five year, $5 million study by Dr. Bill Guy at the University of Washington, Seattle, showed that small doses of radar-like microwave radiation caused a significant excess of cancer in rats....The EPA found that "the U. of W. study can be said to have demonstrated the carcinogenic action of this type of pulsed RF radiation."

The EMR Alliance, Summer Newsletter, 1997, p/ 12

In 1994, Drs. Henry Lai and N.P. Singh, at the Uiversity of Washington, Seattle, found both single and double strand DNA breaks in test animals exposed to cellular and PCS-frequency microwaves (*from only a two hour exposure). Double strand DNA breaks are thought not to repair themselves and can lead to mutations. Dr. Lai just announced at an FDA workshop on this subject that in recent follow-ups. they noted that such breaks were blocked by the hormone melatonin. Melatonin, in several studies has been found to be suppressed in power line frequency exposures. Often, wireless technology is "modulated" with such ELF frequencies. There are complex synergistic relationships with many of the non-ionizing bands that fall well outside the range of thermal effects. This study was previously reported on in the Washington Post, Wednesday, June 7, 1995.

In 1984, Dr. William Arthur Guy, at the university of Washington in Seattle, found an increase in malignant endocrine gland
tumors, and in benign adrenal gland tumors in test animals. This was a five year, $5 million study of long-term, low-level
exposures that was funded by the U.S. Air Force. The study also indicated immune system malfunctions in that nearly al of the
initial test animals died from infections. This was reported in the Washington Post, Wednesday, June 7, 1995.

Washington Post, 6/7/95:

"A smaller study, by Dr. Stanislaw Szmigielski of the Center for Radiobiology and Radiation Safety in Warsaw, Poland, found
that RF/MW radiation can act as a tumor promoter in mice." "Drs. Leif Salford and Bertil Persson of the University of Lund in
Sweden reported leakage through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) of rats at SARs as low as 0.01 W/kg. By comparison, the
1992 ANSI/IEEE standard allows the head to be exposed continuously to over 100 times that level of radiation: up to 1.6
W/Kg for the gereral public and up to 8 W/Kg for workers, who are assumed to be aware of the risks. Even though
RF/MW-induced BBB leakage was first reported by U.S. researchers in 1977, and even though it provides a possible
mechanism for affecting brain biochemistry, no one here has seriously pursued this line of research.

In microwave and radar personnel they have noted sharp increases in cancer- including lymphomas, melanomas, leukemias,
and brain tumors, high blood pressure, headaches, memory loss, and brain damage. They also noted immune system
abnormalities; first an over stimulation, then later immune suppression after continued exposure to low levels of the microwave
bands.