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Review: Weak radiofrequency radiation exposure from mobile phone radiation on plants.

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Halgamuge MN. · 2017

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Nearly 90% of plant studies show biological effects from mobile phone radiation, challenging claims that non-thermal wireless exposure is harmless.

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Researchers analyzed 45 studies examining how radiofrequency radiation from mobile phones affects plants, looking at 169 experiments across 29 plant species. They found that nearly 90% of studies showed biological effects in plants exposed to cell phone frequencies, with certain crops like corn, tomatoes, and peas appearing especially sensitive. This suggests that the wireless radiation we consider safe may be causing measurable biological changes in living organisms.

Why This Matters

This comprehensive review provides compelling evidence that radiofrequency radiation at levels similar to mobile phone emissions can trigger biological responses in living systems. The fact that 89.9% of studies found effects challenges the industry narrative that non-thermal RF exposure is biologically inert. What makes this particularly significant is that plants lack the psychological factors that critics often invoke to dismiss human EMF sensitivity studies. The research reveals that certain frequency ranges commonly used by wireless devices (800-1500 MHz and 1500-2400 MHz) are especially bioactive. While we can't directly extrapolate plant responses to human health, this data adds to the mounting evidence that our current safety standards, based solely on heating effects, may be inadequate. The biological effects observed in plants suggest our wireless infrastructure could be impacting the natural environment in ways we're only beginning to understand.

Exposure Information

A logarithmic frequency spectrum from 10 Hz to 100 GHz showing where this study's 2.40 GHz - 8 GHz exposure sits relative to common EMF sources.Where This Frequency Sits on the EMF SpectrumELFVLFLF / MFHF / VHFUHFSHFmm10 Hz100 GHzThis study: 2.40 GHz - 8 GHzPower lines50/60 Hz5G mm28 GHzLogarithmic scale

Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study. The study examined exposure from: 800, 1500 and 2400 MHz, 3500 and 8000 MHz

Study Details

The aim of this article was to explore the hypothesis that non-thermal, weak, radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) have an effect on living plants.

In this study, we performed an analysis of the data extracted from the 45 peer-reviewed scientific p...

Our analysis demonstrates that the data from a substantial amount of the studies on RF-EMFs from mob...

The available literature on the effect of RF-EMFs on plants to date observed the significant trend of radiofrequency radiation influence on plants. Hence, this study provides new evidence supporting our hypothesis. Nonetheless, this endorses the need for more experiments to observe the effects of RF-EMFs, especially for the longer exposure durations, using the whole organisms. The above observation agrees with our earlier study, in that it supported that it is not a well-grounded method to characterize biological effects without considering the exposure duration. Nevertheless, none of these findings can be directly associated with human; however, on the other hand, this cannot be excluded, as it can impact the human welfare and health, either directly or indirectly, due to their complexity and varied effects (calcium metabolism, stress proteins, etc.). This study should be useful as a reference for researchers conducting epidemiological studies and the long-term experiments, using whole organisms, to observe the effects of RF-EMFs.

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Halgamuge MN. (2017). Review: Weak radiofrequency radiation exposure from mobile phone radiation on plants. Electromagn Biol Med. 36(2):213-235, 2017.
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@article{mn._2017_review_weak_radiofrequency_radiation_2140,
  author = {Halgamuge MN.},
  title = {Review: Weak radiofrequency radiation exposure from mobile phone radiation on plants.},
  year = {2017},
  
  url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27650031/},
}
PubMed: 27650031

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