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Betreff: Re: Repacholi |
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Von: Hans Karow |
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Datum: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:30:30 -0700 |
Some of you might not have gotten
Repacholi’s response to the e-mail at the bottom…last year.
Cheers and Best, Hans
From: Repacholi,
Michael Harry [mailto:
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:07 AM
To: hans karow
Cc: Perkins Van Deventer, Tahera Emilie; Ohkubo, Chiyoji; Ravenscroft,
Lisa
Subject: RE: Electromagnetic Radiation
Hans you have no idea how busy it is
here...I receive over 200 emails a day and can generally cover only the urgent
ones. Sorry for the delayed response
I appreciate your concern and genuinely
sympathise with your situation, as I suspect you live in the house you
describe. However, you should understand that I am a scientist and truly
believe in what the science tells us....if not why bother wasting money on
expensive research?? So my response normally reflects this and my
knowledge of the EMF field. However you have asked for a personal opinion so I
will try to give it with the reasoning behind what I conclude. Obviously your
concern is not uncommon and deserves a solid response.
You ask if I,
with my assumed family (two children aged 1 and 3, and expecting a third
child in two months...age difference between children suggests that EMF is
not the only thing on your mind..:-), would live in a house that is exposed to
near-by power line AC magnetic fields, ranging between no less than 2 -
15 milliGauss and above, 24 hours a day, year-round for the next 25+
years. This with your wife always staying home and not working anywhere else,
and you working at your home based business and employing a few people full
time; and having also in mind that you one day will retire in this home, and
one of your kids will move in, take over your business and raise a family of
two or three children.
First you should know that in most
cases exposure to low frequency magnetic fields come from electrical
appliances or the way the house is wired (earthing)..not from nearby power
lines, so I would assess where the fields were coming from first. While 15
milligauss seems a lot to people, it is much less than what you receive if you
use an electric shaver, hair dryer, electric blanket, electric stove and
many other common appliances....I know these exposures are only for a short
term..but there is no evidence at all to suggest that there is any difference
between short or long term exposure.
Thus if I was truly worried I would
look at these exposures and compare them withthe power line fields (need
measurements outside the home for this). If the power line fields
dominate, which I doubt would be the case, then I would ask myself whether
I wanted to stay in a home that the science say might lead to my child
contracting leukaemia. WHO recently convened the best scientists in the world
to assess this situation, and so my personal opinion is coloured by their
conclusions on this. The dilemma posed is that the epi studies suggest that
exposure to low frequency magnetic fields above about 3-4 milligauss is
associated with (not caused by) an increased incidence of childhood
leukaemia. However there is absolutely no evidence to support that these fields
could initiate, promote or progress cancer. This causes a real dilemma in the
science and I have used the WHO EMF Project to promote research to try to
answer this question...so far without real success. So we must look at the
problem another way...if the epi studies are showing a causal
relationship, then how many children might get leukaemia from exposure to these
fields? Sir Richard Doll, a very famous epidemiologist (who identified lung
cancer was caused by smoking), calcultaed that in a country with a population
of about 60 million, and given the same average low frequency magnetic field
exposure as the
However parents have been so worried about
this issue that they moved homes away from power lines, only to find that the
wiring in the house was causing them great exposure. Alternatively they had
children going to a school close to power lines, and they moved them to another
school, further away from their home and subjecting them to a much
greater known risk of traffic accident.
So my personal opinion is that, I would not
move from the house. There are so many other much greater risks to children
that I would concentrate on these as a first priority, not EMF. If you are
still worried about the 15 milligauss exposure and you find it comes from
appliance use or house wiring, you might want to deal with this to ease your
mind.
Hope this helps
Kind regards
Mike
From:
hans karow [mailto:hkarow@shaw.ca]
Sent: 07 March 2006 21:16
To: Repacholi, Michael Harry
Subject: Electromagnetic Radiation
Dear Dr. Repacholi,
Again, please a friendly reminder.
Thank you,
Hans Karow
From: hans karow
[mailto:hkarow@shaw.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:53 PM
To:
Subject: RE: two generation family home exposure to high transmission
line EMR
Dear Dr. Repacholi,…..
Again please a kind reminder.
Thank you,
From: hans karow
[mailto:
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:46 PM
To:
Subject: two generation family home exposure to high transmission line
EMR
Dear Dr. Repacholi,
Please accept this letter a kind reminder,
your answer would be very much appreciated, please!
Thank You,
From: hans karow
[mailto:
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 5:35 PM
To:
Subject: 2 generation family home exposure to high transmission line EMR
Dear Dr. Repacholi,
In your personal opinion, not reflecting the
WHO’s and/or INCIRP’s opinion or
position, could you please inform me, whether you with your
assumed family (two children aged 1 and 3, and expecting a third child in two
months) would live in a house that is exposed to near-by power line AC magnetic
fields, ranging between no less than 2 - 15 milliGauss and above,
24 hours a day, year-round for the next 25+ years. This with your wife always
staying home and not working anywhere else, and you working at your home based
business and employing a few people full time; and having also in mind that you
one day will retire in this home, and one of your kids will move in, take over
your business and raise a family of two or three children.
Please note: I am aware of all the studies you might
refer to me. I am asking only for your own opinion, please.
Thank you,