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SAINTPAUL J Meter Replacement Project Contact Information Notification Process Reading Your Meter News and Updates Radio Frequency Health and Safely Interference and Ptivaoy FAQ Alternate Metering Systems PSA Video Project update Health and Safety Concerns Safety Power /Electrical Connections • The radio unit is powered by a singled "D' cell battery, wilidl is warranted by the manufacturer to Iast 20 years. • Neither the water meter not the radi0-read transmitter atted10d to the water meter are connected to any electrical syste and 5o they am not affected by any electrical circuitry. Health Concerns Radiation Emitting Electronic Products Governed by the FDA, radiatiomemitting electronic products are pail of our daily lives and have been for decades. Nearly every home or work environment contains not merely ono, but several radiatiomemlliing, electronic products. Our modem culture depends on them for everything from lighting rooms to watching TV and movies to listening to music on CD. Non lonizing, optical, radiation is used In: Halogen lamps Remote controls Digital displays /monitors Fluorescent lamps UPC readers Laser toys and novelties Laser primers Laser pointers Fiber optic communications CD and CD ROM players DUD players Auto locus cameras Namiordztng, radio frequency, electromagnetic frequency, microwave, and magnetic radiation is used In: Cell phones Remote controls Microwave ovens Electric blankets Cblamalaur radios Anti.holdinlrusion alarms Security systems Police radar Video monitors Walkie-talkies Communication FDA Information on Radiation EmlI3 g Products Page 1 of 2 �REGI0)IAR. y(ETg( SWIMS Possible Carcinogen? M June of 2011, the World Health Organization came out with a statement indicating that radiofrequency electromagnetic energy from cell phones is a possible carcinogen (Group 20), based on a study coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer Involving 14,000 people. Other items in this Gass (Group 20) include caffeine and talc.based powders. The WHO's definition of this dassi(Calion is: 'A positive association has bean observed between exposure to the agent and cancer for which a causal interpretation Is considered by the Working Group l0 bo credible, but chance, bias, or confounding could not be ruled out with reasonable confidence." In other words, the agent could possibly be cancer csuswng, or the association between exposure to the agent and cancer could just be chance or blas. More recently, Oct. 21, 2011. a much lamer study Involving more than 350,400 people conducted by Danish (Marchers has found no difference In cancer rates between people who had used a cellphone for about a decade, and people who had not. The Star Tribune article makes it clear Inat neither the FDA nor the FCC (have found any evidence to suggest that cellphones are linked 50 cancer. The arlide g005 orl t0 stale Mal. Cellphonos send signals to nearby towers we radio waves, a form of energy similar to microwaves. But the radiation produced by callphonos cannot directly damage DNA and is different from stronger typos of radiation like X -rays or ultraviolet light. At very (high levels, radio frequency waves from coliphones can heat up body tissue, but that is not believed to damage human cells. Supporting those findings, Ibe National Cancer Institute states: Although (here have been some concerns that radiofrequency energy from cell phones held closely 10 the head may afreet the brain and Other tissues, to date them Is no evldana° from studios of cells, animals, or humans that radlofrequoncy energy can cause cantor. II is generally accepted that damage to DNA is necessary for cancer to develop. However, radiofrequency energy. unlike ionizing radiation, does not taus) DNA damage in cells, and it has not been found to cause cancer in animals or to enhance the canconcaustng effects of known chemical Caminogens in animals. National Cancer institute al the National institutes of Health' Report On Cell Phones end Cancer Ries WHO statement on etedromannatic fields and Public Health: Mobile Phones Read Me FDA si010ment on Current Research Results on Cell Phone Use Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity One of the health concerns listed in information being disseminated throughout our service area is electromagnetic hypersensitivity. in some handouts being circulated, it has also been referred to as mtcrowave or radio wave sickness. https: / /www.saintpaulwater.com/ meters /meterHealthSafety.asp 2/3/2012 12