Learn About EMFs

The German government has made an official statement regarding the use of wireless technology and it is not one that the billion dollar telecommunications companies are going to like.

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection has urged citizens to minimize their use of all wireless technology citing potential health risks.

As published in the British newspaper *The Independent on Sept 9, 2007:

“People should avoid using Wi-Fi wherever possible because of the risks it may pose to health, says the German government.

And Germany’s official radiation protection body also advises its citizens to
use landlines instead of mobile phones, and warns of ‘electrosmog’ from
a wide range of other everyday products, from baby monitors to electric blankets.”

The article went on to state:

“The Environment Ministry recommended that people should keep their exposure to radiation from Wi-Fi ‘as low as possible’ by choosing ‘conventional wired connections’.

It added that it is ‘actively informing people about possibilities for reducing personal exposure’.”

A spokesperson for Germany’s Environment Ministry, Florian Emrich, made a statement that Wi-Fi should be avoided “because people receive exposures from many sources and because it is a new technology and all the research into its health effects has not yet been carried out”.

This is a landmark step that will surely receive a large amount of backlash from not only the telecommunications companies but the government agencies that they keep financially endowed.

Expect to be bombarded in the mainstream press of findings by the EPA, FDA and other offical agencies that claim their studies show no substantial health risk associated with wireless technology.

©Rebecca Moon 2007

*all excerpts © 2007 Independent News and Media Limited