ICNIRP sets limits for wireless communication within the EU

ICNIRP – The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection – sets limits for wireless communication within the EU. These limits only protect against acute heat damage. This means that the ICNIRP reference values ​​do not protect against the harmful effects of the form of long-term exposure that is currently occurring from base stations and routers. Nor against the harmful effects of long-term repeated use of mobile phones. The ICNIRP reference values ​​are based on an outdated approach to the risks of microwave radiation established by the American military industry in the 1950s: that the radiation would only cause harmful effects if it is so intense that it heats up body tissue in a short time.

Many people contact us and the authorities and testify to serious health problems and symptoms. Measurements of radiation in homes generally show levels that are far below the levels permitted in Sweden. The symptoms they experience have been described as an effect of exposure to microwave radiation for 50 years. The symptom picture was called the microwave syndrome and includes sleep problems, headaches, tinnitus, fatigue, depression, anxiety, palpitations and chest pressure. Respiratory problems have emerged as an increasingly frequent symptom during the massive increase in microwave radiation in the past year.

Despite the fact that the witnessed symptoms are known and have been repeatedly shown for 50 years, the authorities passively view the exploding increase in radiation and reject incoming testimonies, research results confirming health risks and warnings from hundreds of scientists about harmful health effects.

ICNIRP is a foundation that was built up in the mid-1990s and quickly became the WHO's court supplier of ideas and guidelines on limit values ​​that provide maximum elbow room for the wireless industry.

ICNIRP then had good support from the mobile industry to work its way into the WHO, which in the 1990s lacked expertise and capital. The man who created ICNIRP, Michael Repachioli, was able to help with that. International commissions and authorities are something that are created and built up based on the initiatives of individuals.

ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) is an organization based in Germany that, through its recommendations, determines how much radiation you can be exposed to from base stations and mobile phones. They issue so-called "guidelines" or limit values ​​for permissible microwave radiation from wireless technology and for permissible levels of electromagnetic low-frequency magnetic fields from electricity and power lines. Their first guidelines were submitted in 1998. Among the co-responsible senders in 1998 was Professor Anders Ahlbom from Karolinska Institutet, whose brother (Gunnar Ahlbom) was also employed as a lobbyist for Telia in Brussels without declaring the conflict of interest. Several other clear conflicts of interest exist among the other co-authors. A review by two EU parliamentarians published in 2020 showed that ICNIRP members in many cases had clear ties to the telecommunications industry. Yet it is still claimed today that the group is independent of the industries concerned. ICNIRP's guidelines are very beneficial to the industry.

ICNIRP's values ​​have since been recommended by both the WHO (EMF project started by ICNIRP's first chairman), the EU and the Swedish authorities, the Radiation Safety Authority (in the form of General Councils), the Swedish Work Environment Authority, and most countries in Europe. However, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, among others, have adopted significantly lower values ​​for permissible radiation than ICNIRP's.

A new international commission has followed up and has delivered a scathing criticism of the basis for ICNIRP's guidelines. The criticism goes deeper than anything we have seen so far.

Last autumn, a kind of competitor to ICNIRP was created. It is called The International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, abbreviated ICBE-EMF, and consists of top-notch researchers in the field of health and radiation.

Link to the ICBE-EMF website, which is a kind of competitor to ICNIRP, launched in the fall of 2022.