Environmental Health Trust Seeks Trump Focus on RF Safety
Environmental Health Trust President Joseph Sandri on Tuesday called on the FCC and FDA to work together on RF safety issues. Sandri sent a letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, posted in docket 13-84. Earlier this month, EHT petitioned the FCC asking it to act on a 2021 remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit of the agency’s 2019 RF safety rules (see 2508070032).
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“U.S. RF radiation exposure limits are higher, by a factor of 10 times or more, than RF radiation exposure limits in China, Russia, Italy and Switzerland,” the letter said. “Notably, many of these countries did not effectively defund their health care and environmental agencies' efforts into rigorously studying radiation health impacts, unlike the effective defunding of the EPA, or the severely limited wireless radiation health assessment funding at FDA.”