Will ICNIRP relax safety guidelines to accommodate 5G?

In our opinion ICNIRP has for 27 years been travelling down a narrow one way street in a vehicle that appears to have no reverse gear. They might have no other choice than to relax the guidelines in order to allow the industry to deploy 5G successfully.

According to Eric van Rongen, chairman of the International Commission on Non-ionizing Research Protection (ICNIRP), in August or September the ICNIRP plans to publish its revised guidelines regarding safe human exposure limits to radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF) (100 kHz – 300 GHz).

The ICNIRP guidelines will still be based only on thermal or heating effects.

Van Rongen makes the following claims:

• “No evidence that RF EMF causes such diseases as cancer
  •  Results of NTP, Falcioni studies (animals, lifetime exposure) not convincing (statement on ICNIRP website)
• No evidence that RF EMF impairs health beyond effects that are due to established mechanisms of interaction”

“The various agencies setting safety standards have failed to impose sufficient guidelines to protect the general public, particularly children who are more vulnerable to the effects of EMF.  The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) established in 1998 the “Guidelines For Limiting Exposure To Time-Varying Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields (up to 300 GHz)” . These guidelines are accepted by the WHO and numerous countries around the world. The WHO is calling for all nations to adopt the ICNIRP guidelines to encourage international harmonization of standards. In 2009, the ICNIRP released a statement saying that it was reaffirming its 1998 guidelines, as in their opinion, the scientific literature published since that time “has provided no evidence of any adverse effects below the basic restrictions and does not necessitate an immediate revision of its guidance on limiting exposure to high frequency electromagnetic fields . ICNIRP continues to the present day to make these assertions, in spite of growing scientific evidence to the contrary. It is our opinion that, because the ICNIRP guidelines do not cover long-term exposure and low-intensity effects, they are insufficient to protect public health.”

https://www.saferemr.com/2018/07/icnirps-exposure-guidelines-for-radio.html?fbclid=IwAR0Vmouz1ZPZHHk3er_4wODxgmmFEcNZZhXq-rRCKXI-pS6AUTIHtpXnBss

Lennart Hardell:

ICNIRP draft on new radiofrequency guidelines is flawed

5G – Harmonization of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) Standards Worldwide