THE BIOINITIATIVE REPORT 2012 A Rationale for Biologically-based Public Exposure Standards for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) Read the Report WHO WE ARE The BioInitiative 2012 Report has been prepared by 29 authors from ten countries, ten holding medical degrees (MDs), 21 PhDs, and three MsC, MA or MPHs. Among the authors are three former presidents of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, and five full members of BEMS. Read More CONCLUSIONS Bioeffects are clearly established to occur with [...]

Home: A rationale for biologically-based exposure standards for low intensity electromagnetic radiation Editor's Notes Why We Care Do we know enough to take action? How to read this report The BioInitiative Report 2012 Table of Contents Preface Conclusions Henry Lai Research Summaries RF Color Charts Bibliography for RF Color Charts Participants Media Press Releases Press Resources Accolades Contact          

The RF Color Charts summarize many studies that report biological effects and adverse health effects relevant for cell towers, WI-FI, 'smart' wireless utility meters, wireless laptops, baby monitors, cell phones and cordless phones. Download RF Color Charts (PDF)

Reference List Reported Biological Effects from Radiofrequency Radiation (RFR) at Low-Intensity Exposure Levels (Cell Tower, WI-FI, Wireless Laptop, Wireless Utility Meters 'smart meters') Prepared November 22, 2012 by: Cindy Sage. MA, Sage Associates DOWNLOAD REFERENCE LIST (PDF) Acherman P et al, 2000.  Exposure to pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic field during waking affects human sleep EEG.  NeuroReport 11(15):3321-3325. Adey, WR et al, 1999.  Incidence of spontaneous and nitrosourea-induced primary tumors of the central nervous system in Fischer 344 rats chronically exposed to modulated microwaves.   Radiation Research 152: 293-302. Agarwal A, Deepinder F, [...]

There is more evidence than we need. The last five years worth of new scientific studies tell us the situation is much worse than in 2007 and yet people around the world have so much more daily exposure than even five years ago. Exposures are linked to a variety of adverse health outcomes that may have significant public health consequences. When added across billions of people world-wide, no argument for the status quo can be persuasive now. In twenty-one technical chapters of this 2012 update, the contributing authors discuss the [...]

The stakes are very high.  Human beings are bioelectrical systems. Our hearts and brains are regulated by internal bioelectrical signals. Environmental exposures to artificial EMFs can interact with fundamental biological processes in the human body. In some cases, this may cause discomfort, or sleep disruption, or loss of wellbeing (impaired mental functioning and impaired metabolism) or sometimes, maybe it is a dread disease like cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. It may be interfering with ones’ ability to become pregnant, or carry a child to full term, or result in brain development [...]

DOWNLOAD PRESS RESOURCES (PDF) PUBLICATION DATE:  December 31, 2012 WHERE: The BioInitiative 2012 Report will be published at www.bioinitiative.org.  Free download. WHAT IS IT:   A report by 29 independent scientists and health experts from around the world* about possible risks from wireless technologies and electromagnetic fields.  It updates the BioInitiative 2007 Report. WHAT IT COVERS:  The science, public health, public policy and global response to the growing health issue of chronic exposure to electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation in the daily life of billions of people around the world.  Covers [...]

BioInitiative 2012 Report Issues New Warnings on Wireless and EMF BioInitiative 2012 Report Issues New Warnings on Wireless and EMF University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York / Embargoed until January 7, 2013  A new report by the BioInitiative Working Group 2012 says that evidence for risks to health has substantially increased since 2007 from electromagnetic fields and wireless technologies (radiofrequency radiation). The Report reviews over 1800 new scientific studies.   Cell phone users, parents-to-be, young children and pregnant women are at particular risk. There is a consistent pattern of increased risk [...]

BIOINITIATIVE 2012 - CONCLUSIONS Table 1-1 Overall, these 1800 or so new studies report abnormal gene transcription (Section 5); genotoxicity and single-and double-strand DNA damage (Section 6); stress proteins because of the fractal RF-antenna like nature of DNA (Section 7); chromatin condensation and loss of DNA repair capacity in human stem cells (Sections 6 and 15); reduction in free-radical scavengers - particularly melatonin (Sections 5, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17); neurotoxicity in humans and animals (Section 9), carcinogenicity in humans (Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and [...]

Each of the links below opens a PDF file in a new browser window. When you are done with a particular file, closing the window will bring you back to this page. January 7, 2013 - BioInitiative Working Group Press Release BioInitiative 2012 Report Issues New Warnings on Wireless and EMF May 18, 2010 - BioInitiative Working Group Press Release Ten-Year INTERPHONE Cell Phone Study Reports Increased Risk for Brain Cancer (PDF). Experts call for changes in cell phone design, warnings, ban on use by children. April 9, 2009 - [...]