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As a mother of two children living in Sandy, Utah, I am deeply concerned about the cell tower located at Sprucewood Elementary School, where my son attends school. Every day, parents send their children to school trusting that their health, safety, and well-being are being prioritized. Children spend approximately seven hours a day, five days a week, at school during critical stages of physical, cognitive, and neurological development. My greatest concern is the potential long-term impact of radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure on children’s developing brains and nervous systems. Children are not simply small adults. Their brains are still developing, and I believe federal safety standards should specifically account for their unique developmental needs and the possibility of cumulative environmental exposures throughout childhood. While current scientific evidence has not established that exposure from cell towers operating within federal safety limits causes neurological harm, questions remain about long-term exposure beginning early in life. I believe those questions deserve continued independent research and careful consideration. I am especially concerned about the placement of telecommunications equipment directly on elementary school campuses. Even when equipment complies with existing regulations, parents deserve transparency about exposure levels, monitoring procedures, and the decisions that led to its installation. I respectfully request that the Department of Health and Human Services: 1. Prioritize independent research examining the long-term neurological, cognitive, and developmental effects of RF exposure during childhood. 2. Review whether current federal RF exposure guidelines adequately account for children’s developing brains and nervous systems. 3. Encourage independent, publicly accessible RF exposure measurements at elementary schools where cell towers are located. 4. Investigate alternative locations for telecommunications equipment that would reduce unnecessary exposure concerns in school environments. 5. Evaluate whether additional precautionary measures or recommendations regarding cell tower placement on elementary school…

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Diagnosed with a Giant Cell Tumor in 2023 at my distal right femoral condyle approximately 3 cm spherical bone mass. I had been carrying my cell phone in my right pants leg pocket that ended approximately 5 cm from the where the tumor was discovered. I have been healthy to date. Got the Johnson & Johnson Covid shot in 2021 as forced to keep my job. Is the tumor coincidence or is there a cause and effect? I’m 65 years old. Giant Cell Tumors typically are limited to younger people.

Wifi disruptors growth of any plants. It's been tested by schools and video time-lapses are available online.

4G towers were giving people headaches for years. Made people leave their homes and move.

https://youtu.be/jjyqPWb0Vc0?is=nq7a1xbXAoWVIVys

My gurlfriend couldn't get good sleep at night, she was prompt to migraines. We went through chiropractors, all kinds of tests, but it ended up being wifi in the next room. I bought an EMF reader and now I make sure the room clear of EMF of any kinds to be safe for my kids.

Hello,

I implore you to study the effects of new technology on the population before ots approved to roll out.

I am a parent of an EMF sensitive kid and a sensitive person as well.

In 2018 my non-verbal autistic son was running back and forth in our condo, slamming into walls. So much that his fingers were raw and bleeding and there was blood all over my house. I tested EMFs and they were off the charts. Every tiny condo had a smart meter and most of my neighbors also had hot spots. I tried mitigating, but it only helped slightly. Then I did a test, I took my son to a cabin in the middle of the woods for a week. No wifi, no smart appliances, nothing emitting EMFs. I had a different child by the end of the week. We moved. It got much better.

I have personally become more sensitive to EMFs over the years. Recently my son had an appt in a building that had cell pods on the side of it. I typically look for things like that before we go, but I had forgotten. The building was square and 6 stories high, about that same width and length. The pods were on all 4 faces, mounted at the 6th floor. Our meeting was on the 5th. I told the lady i didn't know if i could make it for the entire meeting, but I would try. I usually get headaches pretty quickly being that close to towers. I was astonished to be able to make it through the meeting. When we got back down to our car, I looked in the rear view mirror at my son who was saying something to me, but I could not hear him. It was then that I realized that my tinnitus, which I have had mildly for years, was suddenly so loud that I could not hear my son speaking to me from the back seat. All from 1 hours under some cell pods. It took 9 months to get it back down to normal levels. It was horrible.

I fear a cell tower going up near my home forcing me to move.

If my husband accidentally has 5G on his cellphone instead of LTE, I can always tell after sitting near the phone for a while. Probably an hour or so. I can tell the 5G is on because I get a distinct pain on the top of my head. It’s always in the same spot on my head and always feels the same way. I haven’t gone to a doctor. It’s simple cause and effect and I ask my husband to turn off the 5G.

• U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP): A $30 million large-scale rodent study reported "clear evidence" of malignant schwannomas in the hearts of male rats exposed to high levels of 2G/3G radiofrequency radiation (RFR), alongside some evidence of brain gliomas and DNA damage in certain tissues.

• Ramazzini Institute: A large rodent study mirrored findings from the NTP, observing similar heart and brain tumor increases at lower exposure levels that closely mimic environmental cell tower exposures.

• Cellular and DNA Research: Multiple in vitro and animal studies (including reviews indexed via PubMed) suggest that RF radiation can increase oxidative stress, trigger cellular inflammation, or cause single- and double-strand DNA breaks under specific experimental conditions.

Here are two studies, one from the National Cancer Institute and the other from the National Institute for Health.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6701402/

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/cell-phones-fact-sheet

It transed my gender.

We the people want our health back. Enough. The use of these weapons is worthy of Nurenberg investigations. This is #CrimesAgainstHumanity..

The science is well established. Public opinion cannot enter into decisions based on physics and biology.

All I know is that I feel horrible after awhile on WiFi devises. My sleep is horrible.

If any family and children are affected there is a problem. If these towers are placed on every block in a middle class neighborhood you tax us to death. You make us carry the financial responsibility for none licensed drivers and now your sprinkling poisons everywhere for 6g. What an abomination and Jesus knows exactly what you are doing. Go stack them next to data centers instead

Thank you very much for giving us all the opportunity to reflect on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure.

I am a 52 years old Dutch woman who is elektrosensitive. I became sick in 2009. After years of nearly no sleep I found out that a celltower had been plased in my neigbourhood around the time that my sleepdisorder started. I noticed that my sleep was better when the wifirouter was off at night. And so I graduately became aware of the effects of my surrounding on my health. Because I wanted to know how others with this disorder survived I started collecting stories. And I hoped by publishing these stories in a book that our Dutch government would listen. The book came out in 2017 ("De draadloze kooi"). It has helped a lot of people but our government ignored it. Now I see our government consistently moving away from looking at us. We are an inconvenient truth.

Being elektrosensitive doesn't mean that I am against technology. It means knowing how to live with technology without it weakening our health.

But with nearly no one being aware of or acknowledging my condition it is very difficult to take part in society. What we need is more awareness about the dangers of EMFs, RF Radiation and Wireless Radiation Exposure, develop healthier products and change the rules of engagement (like with smoking) so our society becomes EHS-inclusive.

More practical: The government can launch an awareness campaign, it can regulate the industry better by lowering radiation limits, give incentives to produce healthier products, recognize EHS as an environmental related disorder so people can get the right healthcare and give people with EHS the right to ask for reasonable adaptations if necessary.

I hope all the input will give you a clear vision of what to do, and that you will be able to put it all in practice. For a better world for all of us.

Thank you very much and good luck.

The government should be requiring all devices that emit radiation to undergo randomized testing and reporting. The emitted levels should be considered healthy or otherwise a warning issued. If no one can decide what is considered healthy, experiments should be conducted and results finalized.

There is special concern over wearable devices where there is no long term evidence of safety. Any products with unknown causes of harm should be properly labeled so.

Grok has made this website with SAR data from phones. Maybe the downloadable spreadsheet or the websites search filter can be useful somehow.

https://sar-data.grok.me/

Take note that there are different measurement types used in EU and US and in general. Such as head, trunk and limb measurements. But also "1g" and "10g" measurements.

The FCC (US), ANFR (France) and BFS (Germany) also have data on SAR you can find. The Grok made website uses data from Apple. Here are the other websites.

The FCC has this website, where there is an advanced search tool that may come in handy. https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid

here is Apple.

https://regulatoryinfo.apple.com/rfexposure

here is the French ANFR.

https://data.anfr.fr/explore/dataset/das-telephonie-mobile

And the German BSF.

https://www.bfs.de/SiteGlobals/Forms/Suche/BfS/EN/SARsuche_Formular.html

I think the Grok or other LLM search tools can be easier to use for searching. So long as links are verifiable and sources included.

Hello,

Thank you for investigating the effects of rf/emf.

I have personal experience concerning this issue. My husband and I live in a small town in NH with rolling hills and valleys. The cell phone service in the area has not been historically great because of this. Because of the nature of my husband's work he needed better cell service, so installed a warehouse cell signal booster into our basement. This was several years ago. Upon doing that I started noticing that when I was sitting in a certain part of the house my heart would start skipping beats, fluttering irregularly. He didn't believe me but after much complaining we unplugged it and the fluttering hasn't occurred since.

Skip ahead, as of approximately a year and a half ago. There is a new cell tower that has been erected in our town that is on the highest hill. We are located on the top of a ridge approximately three miles (the way the crow flies) away from it. Since the cell tower has gone active my ears are hissing, sometimes worse than others. I can quiet the hissing sound by using shungite stones placed over my ears. I believe these symptoms are a direct correlation to the rf/emf that the cell tower is putting out. I have frequently thought about having someone come and measure the amount we are getting exposed to.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

FCC writing about SAR values. https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/specific-absorption-rate-sar-cell-phones-what-it-means-you "Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) For Cell Phones: What It Means For You" French SAR website ANFR. https://www.anfr.fr/en/maitriser/radio-equipment/specific-absorption-rate-sar/sar-measurement-results "To better inform consumers, ANFR continuously publishing the results of SAR measurements performed since 2012 in open data format as part of its mission to control public exposure to electromagnetic waves and monitor the market. Three types of checks are out performed to assess device compliance “head SAR” measurement covering the use of the phone against the ear, during voice calls. They show that, except for one phone, these SAR values have always been compliant with applicable regulations, i.e. less than 2 W/kg. “trunk SAR” measurements are used whene when the phone is carried near the body, for example in a jacket or a clothes pocket or a bag. The maximum value defined by regulation is 2W/kg but this value is associated with a separation distance between the device under test and the body. For mobile phones, the "trunk" SAR is assessed at a distance of 5 mm for all 6 faces.. “limb SAR" measurements , which correspond to the phone being held against a limb, for example, worn in an armband or in a trouser pocket and held in the hand. The maximum value defined by regulation is 4W/kg. For mobile phones, the "limb" SAR is assessed in contact for all 6 faces. ANFR started checking the “trunk SAR” in 2012, considering the new uses for phones relating to the recommendations to use earphones and relating to data exchange (mobile internet, MMS, etc.). At the time when the European R&TTE directive 1999/5/EC was applicableallowed manufacturers to choose a separation distance of between 0 and 25 mm to measure trunk SAR. This variable distance, was not always mentioned in documentation to users, making control more complex. The preparation of a new directive was opened, giving the possibility of to update the standard It was in this context that between 2012 and 2016, the ANFR performed additional trunk SAR measurements using different distances than…

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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure.

I am responding from the perspective of a parent, family member, healthcare professional, and a concerned member of the public.

I have lived between two cell towers for 13 years and am concerned with the lack of safety data in allowing these towers into residential area. We have noticed it is harder to sleep. My neighbor has radiation sensitivity which makes it hard for him to leave his home and Im sure there are more symptoms we could attribute to the towers if we had the actual research behind the technology. daily life. I firmly believe HHS has a responsibility to make sure the technology is safe BEFORE it goes up. Unfortunately we have been failed this far.

I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence.

I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health.

Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

We deserve to know the possible effects this has on the human body we are surrounded by it.

Read your own decades old government funded research from https://www.amazon.ca/Body-Electric-Robert-Becker/dp/0688069711 and for the love of all things good, stop acting so completely stupid all the time.