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Health committee  Which study were you referring to, sir?

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

James McNamee

Health committee  The International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2010 and 2011 did a study on this. I was actually a member of that panel. We looked at all of the data. There were epidemiologists, there were medical doctors, there were people who specialized in animal studies and in vitro stud

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

James McNamee

Health committee  I think it's important to point out that you can never prove that something is safe or that something will never happen. We're subject to the evidence base we have at this time. The IARC committee looked at that evidence. Basically, there were studies that found effects and studi

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

James McNamee

Health committee  Yes. For the past several years—at least two years now—there has been an ongoing effort to assemble a risk assessment at an international level through the WHO's international EMF project. This process is basically a systematic review, wherein all studies are identified. They are

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

James McNamee

Health committee  Yes. The reviews by international health agencies and NGOs have been quite consistent in their conclusions of an absence of adverse health effects below the exposure limits, in standards such as ICNIRP, which is applied throughout Europe and in about 100 countries. In fact, Safet

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

James McNamee

Health committee  Perhaps I'll start. A couple of other states or cities, such as City of Toronto in this case, have a policy that requires emissions from cellphone towers to be perhaps 100 times below the national limits, such as Safety Code 6, or ICNIRP, for that matter. While Switzerland's bas

March 24th, 2015Committee meeting

James McNamee