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CST supports the use of technology in schools as a necessary educational tool. Hardwired technology solutions are safe.  Wireless technology is not safe.  Children's health, not cost and convenience, needs to be paramount.

Trustingly, parents give their children cell phones for "safety" reasons.  In support of the wireless industry, school districts, community centres and other public venues are now promoting the continued rollout of wireless internet systems.  Few people are yet aware that no testing has ever been conducted on the non-thermal biological effects to young people of non-ionizing radiation.  Neither has there been pre-market testing for everyday devices such as cell phones, DECT or cordless phones, or baby monitors used by or near children.

Children and youth are the most vulnerable to health damage from environmental toxins and pollutants. The pathologies associated with non-thermal biological effects are contradictory to a good learning and living environment, presenting themselves as behavioural changes, a lack of concentration, fatigue, headaches and dizziness, depression, sleep disorders, asthmatic symptoms . . . 

At this point in our history, children are and will be exposed to, and tempted by, an unprecedented array of wireless devices, tools and toys.   Adults have a moral and legal responsibility to protect their children, thereby ensuring their safe and healthy future. 



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Jul 15
2012

Electromagnetic Interference from RF Identification in Critical Medical Care Equipment

Potentially Hazardous Incidents Induced by RFID- Journal of the American Medical Association

" . . . The term incident in this study was defined as "every unintended change in function of a medical device" while the US Food and Drug Administration's definition of EMI was used: "degradation of the performance of a piece of equipment, transmission channel, or system (such as medical devices) caused by an electromagnetic disturbance."

"Five intensivists, all European board-certified and each with more than 2 years of full-time critical care experience, classified all incidents independently while blinded for the manufacturer of the medical device and the type (active or passive) or part (reader with tag or tag) of the RFID system. The classification was done independently of the incident assessment and according to a critical care adverse event scale.

"The scale ranges were hazardous incident (direct physical influence on a patient by unintended change in equipment function, e.g., total stop of syringe pump or incorrect pacing by an external pacemaker); significant incident (influence on monitoring with significant level of attention needed causing substantial distraction from patient care, eg, incorrect alarm or inaccurate monitoring of blood pressure); and light incident (influence on monitoring without significant level of attention needed, eg, disturbed display) . . .




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