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HPA-RPD (ex-NRPB) finally admit that Electric Fields really can make you sick - this is the first ever UK admission of electrosensitivity! The following links are to news coverage of this issue by two national UK newspapers latest HPA-RPD.org.uk news stories:

Sunday Times Article - HPA-RPD (ex-NRPB) finally admit that Electric Fields really can make you sick - first ever UK admission of electrosensitivity!
Daily Mail Article - Phones, Computers and Microwave Ovens can all make you ill!

The following is their press release in full, with our comments attached in red.

Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity

Recent newspaper articles about a forthcoming report from the Health Protection Agency are speculative, and various assertions about its contents are inaccurate. (Sunday Times, 11 Sept 2005; Daily Mail, 12 September 2005).

The report will be a scientific review of the topic of electrosensitivity with a public health perspective. It will not be a definitive statement of policy from the Board of the Health Protection Agency. This statement does not make it clear or not whether their policy towards electrosensitivity will be affected by the outcome of the study. Perhaps they are waiting to see what the public think before doing something as "drastic" as changing advice policy on health. The Board of the Agency is not in a position to make a decision on whether electrosensitivity is a "medical condition" or not. This is for the medical profession to decide on an international basis. Clearly however they are in a position to equivocally sit on the fence without comment, despite the respect they hold regarding advice on the effects of radiation exposure to the public exposure to man-made electric and magnetic fields.

The report will be published next month with a press release summarising its contents. This will be available to news media under embargo.

HPA Press Statement
Forthcoming Review on Electrosensitivity

Professor Olle Johannson, an expert in this field from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, had the following to say about the press release:

Response to HPA-RPD Press Statement

In the recent Press Statement (see below) from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) of England and Wales, a serious mistake can be found.

In Sweden, under various international and national handicap laws and regulations - such as the UN 22 Standard Rules and the Swedish action plan for persons with impairments (prop. 1999/2000:79 "Den nationella handlingplanen för handikappolitiken - Fran patient till medborgare"), the Swedish Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS-lagen), the Swedish Social Services Act (Socialtjänstlagen), and the Human Rights Act of the EU - or elsewhere in the world among all UN nations, impairments are NOT "for the medical profession to decide on an international basis". Persons with impairments are NOT "a medical condition". This is very important to realize and understand.

Professor Olle Johansson
Karolinska Institute, Sweden

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