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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0643.028 2018-2020 COUNTY CLERK COUNTY OF HAWAI'I RECEIVED From: Naomi Melamed Time i0 28 QM BY UV To: Council Testimony Date 12/212011 Subject: Free WIFI in parks Date: Friday,November 29,2019 8:27:03 PM Aloha honorable Mayor Kim, Council members and madam chair, Mahalo for your time today in hearing my testimony. I am a community organizer, mother and medical practitioner in my local community of Kapaau. The issue of the health of our vlunerable populations, from keiki, kapuna, to the birds and bees is of great concern to me. I stand here before you today to testify concerning the negative effect that wifi has on our health and ecosystem. Exposure to and harm from wifi radiation is a justified and reasonable apprehension. There is plenty of peer-reviewed, independant, scientific evidence to back this up, which I have submitted as written testimony for all present as our legislative representatives here to see. The definition of assault is, "intentionally putting another person in reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact. Physical injury is not required." There is clear evidence available from well accredited, peer reviewed scientific research articles correlating several disorders in bee colonies and wireless radiation. We cannot afford another assault on our Big Island bee population. Public wifi networks are well known as the least secure connections available and subject our vulnerable populations to increassed rates of identity theft etc. In summary, I love internet and I-believe it is a very useful tool if used safely. I support the laying of fiber optic cable for our island with fiber optics to the home and public places which provide 100 percent safe, secure and much faster transfer of date than wifi could ever dream of. I include in my testimony a brief list of some key research which is available on the biologically harmful effects of Wifi: Research Studies and Research Reviews on Wi-Fi Pall M., i4 i is an'important threat to human health, Environmental Research Volume 164, July 2018, Pages 405-416 (Review paper) "Repeated Wi-Fi studies show that Wi-Fi causes oxidative stress, sperm/testicular damage,neuropsychiatric effects including EEG changes, apoptosis, cellular DNA damage, endocrine changes, and calcium overload. Each of these effects are also caused by exposures to other microwave frequency EMFs, with each such effect being documented in from 10 to 16 11 Comm. NY �y� • 1 Ref. To: r(P� Ref. date DEC 3 2019 T...d: reviews." Wi-Fi is thought to act via voltage-gated'calcium channel activation. • "Redtnayiie and Johansson (2015) reviewed the literature showing that there are age-related effects, such that young people are more sensitive to EMF effects. It follows from these various findings that the placement of Wi-Fi into schools around the country may well be a high level threat to the health of our children as well being a threat to teachers and any very sensitive fetuses teachers may be carrying, as well." Isabel Wilke, (Review Paper) "Biological and Pathological Effects of the 2.45 EitIz on Cells, Fertility, Brain and Behavior", Umwelt-Medicine-Gesellschaft (2018) I l-I SS, Evaluation of Wi-Fi Radiation Effects on Antibiotic Susceptibility, Metabolic Activity and Biof im Formation by Escherichia Coli 0157117, Staphylococcus Aureus and Staphylococcus Epidermis J Biomed Phys Eng. 2019 Oct 1;9(5):579-586. doi: 10.31661./jbpe.v0i0.11.06. eCollection 2019 Oct. e OBJECTIVE: The present study evaluated the non-thermal effects of wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) operating at 2.4 GHz part of non-ionizing EMF on different pathogenic bacterial strains (Escherichia coli 0157H7, Staphylococcus aureus, and Staphylococcus epidermis). Antibiotic resistance, motility, metabolic activity and biofilm formation were examined. e MATERIAL AND METHODS: In this case-control, a Wi-Fi router was used as a source of microwaves and also bacterial cells were exposed to Wi-Fi radiation continuously for 24 and 48 hours. The antibiotic susceptibility was carried out using a disc diffusion method on Muller Hinton agar plates. Motility of Escherichia coli 0157H7 was conducted on motility agar plates. Cell metabolic activity and biofilm formation were performed using 3-(4, 5-Dimethylthiazol- 2y1)-2, 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and crystal violet quantification, respectively. e RESULTS: The exposure to Wi-Fi radiation altered motility and antibiotic susceptibility of Escherichia coli 0157H7. However, there was no effect Wi-Fi. radiation on antibiotic susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermis. On the other hand, the exposed cells, as compared to the unexposed control, showed an increased metabolic activity and biofilm formation ability in Escherichia coli 0157H7, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermis. e CQNCLUSION: These results proposed that Wi-Fi exposure acted on bacteria in stressful manner by increasing antibiotic resistance and motility of Escherichia coli 0157I17, as well as enhancing biofilm formation by Escherichia coli 0157E17, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermis. The findings may have implications for the management of serious diseases caused by these infectious bacteria. Hedendahl, Lena K., et al. "Measurements of Radiofrequency Radiation with a body- borne exposimeter in Swedish schools with Wi-fi."Frontiers in Public Health 5 (2017): 279. • The environmental exposure to RF radiation in some schools is higher than reported levels for non-thermal biological effects. In order to reduce children's exposure to RIF radiation, schools should prefer wired network connections, allow laptop, tablets, and mobile phone usage only in flight mode and deactivate Wi-Fi access points when internet is not needed for learning purposes. • All values were far below International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection's (ICNIRP) reference values, but most mean levels measured were above the precautionary target level of 3-6 pW/m2 as proposed by the Bioinitiative Report ....however the ICNI.RP guidelines are based on short-term heating (thermal) effects, and are therefore not relevant to decide on the appropriateness of long-term exposure. • "The risk for cancer may be accentuated for children partly because of their likely longer life-time use of wireless devices, but also since their smaller size and thinner skull bone give higher RF radiation to the brain. Children are also growing and have more immature cells which can be more sensible to RF radiation." Gupta SK, Patel SK, Tomar MS, Singh SK, Mesharam MK, Krishnamurthy S. Long- term exposure of 2450 MHz electromagnetic radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats. Neurochemistry international. Publ. online Apr 4, 2019. Highlights • ••EMR-2450 MHz induces stress and aggravates anxiety-like symptoms in rats. 0 • Exposure of. EMR-2450 MHz increases plasma corticosterone level and, expression of CRH-2 and GR in amygdala. * • Increased expression of cytochrome-C and caspase-9 indicating mitochondrial dysfunction and activation of apoptosis. 0 • Change in expression of mitochondrial Bax: Bc12 ratio indicating modulation of apoptosis. • • EMR-2450 MHz exposure causes both amygdalar necrotic and apoptotic cell death. Abstract Long term exposure of electromagnetic radiations (EMR) frbm cell phones and Wi-Fi hold greater propensity to cause anxiety disorders. However, the studies investigating the effects of chronic exposure of.EMR are limited. Therefore, we investigated the effects of repeated exposure of discrete frequency of EMR in experimental animals. Male rats were exposed to EMR(900, 1800 and 2450 MHz) for 28 (1 h/day) days. Long term exposure of EMR(2450 MHz) induced anxiety like behavior. It deregulated the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis in rats as observed by increase in plasma corticosterone levels apart from decreased corticotrophin releasing hormone-2 (CRH-2) and Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression in amygdala. Further, it impaired mitochondrial function and integrity. The expression of Bcl2 showed significant decrease while Bax and ratio-of Bax: Bcl2,were increased in the mitochondria and vice versa in cytoplasm indicating altered regulation of apoptosis. EMR exposure caused release of cytochrome-c and expression of caspase-9 ensuing activation of apoptotic cell death. Additional set of experiments performed to estimate the pattern of cell death showed necrotic and apoptotic amygdalar cell death after EMR exposure.Histopathological studies also revealed a significant decrease in neuronal cells in amygdala. The above findings • indicate that long-term exposure of EMR radiation (2450 MHz) acts as a stressor.and induces anxiety-like behaviors with concomitant pathophysiological changes in EMR subjected rats. Graphical abstract image.png • t # I S 7 j 1 The average power density was 0.1227 W/m2. The whole body SAR values was found in between the 0.025-0.070 W/kg range, representing an average SAR value to be approximately 0.042 W/kg. The value of SAR in head region was found to be 0.131 W/kg (900, 1800 and 2450 MHz) with a value of power density 0.1227 W/m2.... Shahin, Saba, et al. "2.45 (3Hz,Microwave radiation impairs hippocampal learning and spatial memory: Involvement of local stress mechanism induced suppression of 10luR/ERK./C'REB signaling." Toxicological Sciences (2017): This study elucidates the effect of short (15 days) and long-term (30 and 60 days) low level 2.45 GHz MW radiation induced local stress on the hippocampal spatial memory formation pathway in adult male mice. Researchers observed that 2.45-GHz MW irradiated mice showed slow learning and significantly increased dumber of working and reference memory errors in RAM task. Further, 2.45 GHz MW radiation exposure increases serum corticosterone level and the expression of CRH, CRH-R1. and i-NOS, while the expression of iGluRs, n-NOS, PSD-95, PKCe, PKA, ERK-p-ERK, CREB and p-CREB decreases in above mentioned hippocampal subregions in a duration dependent manner. "Our findings led us to conclude that 2.45 GHz MW radiation exposure induced - local stress suppresses signaling mech,anism(s) of hippocampal memory formation." • Hassanshahi, A., �et al. "The effect of Wi .i electromagnetic waves in.unimodal and multimodal object recognition tasks in male rats."Neurological Sciences, 2017, pp. 1-8. This study aimed to investigate the effect of 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi radiation (12 h/day for 30 days) on multisensory integration in male rats. Results demonstrated that rats in Wi-Fi exposure groups could not discriminate.significantly between the novel and familiar objects in any of the standard SOR, tactile SOR, visual SOR, and CMOR tests and the expression of M1 receptors increased following Wi-Fi exposure. In conclusion, results of this study showed that chronic exposure to Wi-Fi electromagnetic waves might impair both unimodal and cross-modal encoding of information. Mahalo for your time, Naomi Melamed hinaomi@protonmail.com 808-936-5083 Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.