I'd appreciate the speakers sharing information about specific affordable meters they recommend, that people can use to monitor their personal environment and identify radiation sources. Also, would they please address the issue of effective shielding, including the risk of conductive shielding materials serving as receiving/rebroadcasting antenna for both communications frequencies and for the frequencies (mainly 10 to 50 kiloHertz)of electrical pollution. (Electrical pollution is harmful frequencies present in household electrical current, due to utilities' inappropriate transmission system. Members not familiar with this can see www.LifeEnergies.com/, www.electricalpollution.com/.) electrical pollution

check the sage associates website listed on resources for the call.

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The website Dr. Neutra just mentioned is www.dhs.ca.gov/ehib/emf

One participant has asked what the speakers thoughts are with regards to EMF exposure from phone masts and the effects on melatonin and the risks of breast cancer.

The first comment with the questions about meters, etc. is mine. I'm listening by phone. There is a loud, persistent whine/hum included in the sound. Are others hearing this? Shivani Arjuna Sarjuna@aol.com

The focus on this call seems to be only on power lines and cell phone - related technology. What information is there on the inpacts of the low level chronic exposure we are now getting from wireless routers? Diane Henshel

Does anyone hve any experience with protective devices, for computers, or the available necklaces, etc.?

So what do panelists recommend in terms of actions that should be taken by local governments with regard to radiofrequency exposures?

Eileen O'Connor, from EM Radiation Research, has asked what the speakers thoughts are with regards to EMF exposure from phone masts and the effects on melatonin and the risks of breast cancer.

I wonder if any research is being done on the difference in effect of nos. of milliGauss of "clean" 50/60Hz fields and those containing the higher frequencies of electrical pollution that broadcast from our building wiring due to inappropriate USA utility transmission systems. The work of Dr. Havas, and the experience of many ES people like myself indicates that the problem is NOT field strenth, but FREQUENCY! See info. at www.LifeEnergies.com Shivani Arjuna

B. Blake Levitt, author and science journalist. I tried to comment on-air but we ran out of time. To the peson who asked what we could do re: public policy changes to help this siutation -- some suggestions include: 1. Removing Section 704 from the U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 that prohibits consideration of the environmental effects of RF in local cell tower siting decisions; 2. Re-fund the U.S. EPA's bioelectromagnetics research lab, once among the finest in the world but no longer in existence; 3. Create new epidemiology studies ASAP because in light of what Cindy Sage mentioned re: broadband over electric cable, it will soon be impossible to find an unexposed population for comparison. That's already difficult given the ubiquity of the technology but it may soon be impossible to tease apart RF from EMF exposures in research. While that last point may seem academic, it is still a helpful distinction at this time given that the science community is still mapping pertinent exposure parameters, as the speakers noted.