Bioinitiative Report
Release Date: August 31, 2007
BioInitiative Report: [3'170 KB]
A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure
Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF)
Organizing Committee:
Carl Blackman, USA
Martin Blank, USA
Michael Kundi, Austria
Cindy Sage, USA
Participants:
David Carpenter, USA
Zoreh Davanipour, USA
David Gee, Denmark
Lennart Hardell, Sweden
Olle Johansson, Sweden
Henry Lai, USA
Kjell Hansson Mild, Sweden
Eugene Sobel, USA
Zhengping Xu and Guangdin Chen, China
Research Associate
S. Amy Sage, USA
SECTION i. Preface
SECTION ii: Table of Contents
SECTION 1: Summary for the Public (Conclusions, Table 1-1)
Ms. Sage
SECTION 2: Statement of the Problem
Ms. Sage
SECTION 3: The Existing Public Exposure Standards
Ms. Sage
SECTION 4: Evidence for Inadequacy of the Standards
Ms. Sage
SECTION 5: Evidence for Effects on Gene and Protein Expression (Transcriptomic and Proteomic Research)
Dr. Xu and Dr. Chen
SECTION 6: Evidence for Genotoxic Effects – RFR and ELF DNA Damage
Dr. Lai
SECTION 7: Evidence for Stress Response (Stress Proteins)
Dr. Blank
SECTION 8: Evidence for Effects on Immune Function
Dr. Johansson
SECTION 9: Evidence for Effects on Neurology and Behavior
Dr. Lai
SECTION 10: Evidence for Brain Tumors and Acoustic Neuromas
Dr. Hardell, Dr.Mild and Dr. Kundi
SECTION 11: Evidence for Childhood Cancers (Leukemia)
Dr. Kundi
SECTION 12: Magnetic Field Exposure: Melatonin Production; Alzheimer’s Disease; Breast Cancer
Dr. Davanipour and Dr. Sobel
SECTION 13: Evidence for Breast Cancer Promotion (Melatonin links in laboratory and cell studies)
Ms. Sage
SECTION 14: Evidence for Disruption by the Modulating Signal
Dr. Blackman
SECTION 15: Evidence Based on EMF Medical Therapeutics
Ms. Sage
SECTION 16: The Precautionary Principle
Mr. Gee
SECTION 17: Key Scientific Evidence and Public Health Policy Recommendations
Dr. Carpenter and Ms. Sage
SECTION 18: List of Participants and Affiliations
SECTION 19: Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
SECTION 20: APPENDIX - Ambient ELF and RF levels
Average residential and occupational exposures
SECTION 21: Acknowledgements
List of BioInitiative Participants
Organizing Committee Members
Carl F. Blackman*, Ph.D.
Founder, Former President and
Full Member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society
Raleigh, NC USA
*opinions expressed are not necessarily those of his employer,
the US Environmental Protection Agency
Martin Blank, PhD Associate Professor
Former President and Full Member of Bioelectromagnetics Society
Dept. of Physiology. College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
New York, NY USA
Prof. Michael Kundi, PhD
Full Member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society
Institute of Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Cindy Sage, MA, Owner
Full Member. Bioelectromagnetics Society
Sage Associates
Santa Barbara, CA USA
Participants
David O. Carpenter, MD
Director, Institute for Health and the Environment
University at Albany East Campus
Rensselaer, NY USA
Zoreh Davanipour. DVM, PhD
Friends Research Institute
Los Angeles, CA USA
David Gee
Coordinator Emerging Issues and Scientific Liaison
Strategic Knowledge and Innovation
European Environmental Agency
Copenhagen, Denmark
Lennart Hardell, MD, PhD, Prof.
Department of Oncology
University Hospital
Orebro, Sweden
Olle Johansson, PhD, Associate Professor
The Experimental Dermatology Unit.
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
Henry Lai, PhD
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington USA
Kjell Hansson Mild, PhD, Prof.
Former President and Full Member of Bioelectromagnetics Society
Board Member, European Bioelectromagnetics Society (EBEA)
Umea University, Department of Radiation Physics
Umeå, Sweden
Amy Sage, Research Associate
Sage Associates
Santa Barbara, CA USA
Eugene L. Sobel, PhD
Friends Research Institute
Los Angeles, CA USA
Zhengping Xu, PhD
Guangdi Chen, PhD
Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory,
Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Hangzhou . People's Republic of China
Reviewers (partial)
James B. Burch, PhD
Arnold School of Public Health
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC USA
Nancy Evans, BS
Health Science Consultant
San Francisco, CA USA
Stanton Glanz, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
Cardiovascular Research Institute, Institute for Health Policy Studies
San Francisco, CA USA
Denis Henshaw, PhD
Professor of Physics
Human Radiation Effects Group
Wills Physics Laboratory
Bristol University, Bristol, UK
Samuel Milham, MD
Washington State Department of Health (retired)
Olympia, Washington
Louis Slesin, PhD
Microwave News
New York, NY USA
