The World Health Organization

These two documentaries, by CBC TV The National, explain the politics behind the science:

Cell Phones and Insurance Companies (September, 2010)

Cell Phone Radiation (September 2010)

WHO (World Health Organization), FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and Health Canada base their standard of Microwave radiation on the guideline set up by ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation).

The following is a detailed analysis of the WHO/ICNIRP 's EMF standard by Dr. Neil Cherry: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3718366/Cherry-1 It is a very thorough MUST-READ document for anyone seeking to understand WHO's position on EMF,"originally written when the New Zealand Ministries of Health and Environment proposed to adopt the ICNIRP Guideline as the Public Health Standard for Cell Site exposures."
The late Dr. Neil Cherry was New Zealand's leading scientist. He held the position of Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Lincoln University, and had a professional scientific background in Physics, Biophysics, Meteorology, Agricultural and Human Biometeorology, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Epidemiology. He was awarded the Royal Honour of Officer of New Zealand Order of Merit (O.N.Z.M.) for his services to Science, Education and Community. http://www.neilcherry.com/profile.php

In the Official WHO literature, the adverse health effects of Microwave and other Electromagnetic Fields are consistently downplayed. Even though there are official documents from individual countries presenting the urgent need for change in safety standards to protect the public (especially the vulnerable population including children), such requests are not reflected in the final public announcements. 

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING SEVERE WARNING presented by the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection to WHO, and compare it with the WHO fact sheet on cellphones which states, "Key Facts: To date, no adverse health effects have been established for mobile phone use."

Decision of Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
"CHILDREN AND MOBILE PHONES:
THE HEALTH OF THE FOLLOWING GENERATIONS IS IN DANGER"
Moscow, Russia 

14 April 2008

For the first time in history, we face a situation when most children and teenagers in the world are continuously exposed to the potentially adverse influence of the electromagnetic fields (EMF) from mobile phones. Electromagnetic field is an important biotropic factor, affecting not just a human health in general, but also the processes of the higher nervous activity, including behavior and thinking. Radiation directly affects human brain when people use mobile phones.

Despite the recommendations, listed in the Sanitary Rules of the Ministry of Health, which insist that persons under 18 years should not use mobile phones (SanPiN 2.1.8/2.2.4.1190-03 point 6.9), children and teenagers became the target group for the marketing the mobile communications.

The current safety standards for exposure to microwaves from the mobile phones have been developed for the adults and don’t consider the characteristic features of the children’s organism. The WHO considers the protection of the children’s health from possible negative influence of the EMF of the mobile phones as a highest priority task. This problem has also been confirmed by the Scientific Committee of the European Commission, by national authorities of the European and Asian countries, by participants of the International scientific conferences on biological effects of the EMF.
 

Potential risk for the children’s health is very high:

•  the absorption of the electromagnetic energy in a child’s head is considerably higher than that in the head of an adult (children’s brain has higher conductivity, smaller size, thin skull bones, smaller distance from the antenna etc.);

• children’s organism has more sensitivity to the EMF, than the adult’s;

• children’s brain has higher sensitivity to the accumulation of the adverse effects under conditions of chronic exposure to the EMF;

• EMF affects the formation of the process of the higher nervous activity;

• today’s children will spend essentially longer time using mobile phones, than today’s adults will.

According to the opinion of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, the following health hazards are likely to be faced by the children mobile phone users in the nearest future: disruption of memory, decline of attention, diminishing learning and cognitive abilities, increased irritability, sleep problems, increase in sensitivity to the stress, increased epileptic readiness.

Expected (possible) remote health risks: brain tumors, tumors of acoustical and vestibular nerves (in the age of 25-30 years), Alzheimer’s disease, “got dementia”, depressive syndrome, and the other types of degeneration of the nervous structures of the brain (in the age of 50 to 60).

The members of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection emphasize ultimate urgency to defend children’s health from the influence of the EMF of the mobile communication systems. We appeal to the government authorities, to the entire society to pay closest attention to this coming threat and to take adequate measures in order to prevent negative consequences to the future generation’s health.
 

The children using mobile communication are not able to realize that they subject their brain to the EMF radiation and their health – to the risk. We believe that this risk is not much lower than the risk to the children’s health from tobacco or alcohol. It is our professional obligation not to let damage the children’s health by inactivity.

Full text: Pg.3-4 at 

http://www.who.int/peh-emf/project/mapnatreps/RUSSIA%20report%202008.pdf

WHO Fact Sheet on Cell Phones and Health:

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/

As mentioned in another article on CHINA, Russia and other communist countries are very aware of the harm of microwave radiation, because low-level microwave was a heavily deployed "invisible" weapon against embassy staff between US/UK and the communist nations during the Cold War, causing widespread cancers and mental illnesses among emabassy personnel.

The following study was published in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine - April 2006:

Conflict of Interest & Bias in Health Advisory Committees: A case study of the WHO’s Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Task Group  
by Don Maisch 

Full text: http://www.emfacts.com/papers/who_conflict.pdf

"It is acknowledged that in an ever increasingly globalized world the reliance on international organisations to set standards to protect public health is an irrefutable fact of modern life. It is also a fact that international organizations charged with this task need to be “eternally vigilant” to ensure that their organisations are not co-opted by vested interests groups – as exampled by Big Tobacco and WHO.

However when it comes to non-ionizing radiation issues (in this case for power frequency health risk assessment) the evidence is clear that Michael Repacholi has used his standing in both WHO and ICNIRP to stack the WHO’s Environmental Health Criteria Task Group for power frequency exposures with representatives of the power industry in contravention of WHO policy. This can only be to the detriment of the group’s ability to evaluate the scientific literature in an unbiased way. This action can only be construed as being aimed at ensuring that industry involvement in determining the WHO Environmental Health Criteria will bias ICNIRP’s risk assessment for power frequency exposure limits for years to come. This will conveniently provide economic protection for the industry against the need to spend enormous sums of money on upgrading distribution systems as well as risks of litigation. Such a blatant disregard for the fundamental principles of credible science, as well as WHO’s mission on protecting world health, speaks of a desperation to bury independent science at all costs, even if that cost is the integrity of WHO."