Cell Phone Dangers Prompt FOIA Requests

FOIAengine: Questions from Siri & Glimstad Point to Possible Litigation

By David Nayer, Law St. Media, Oct. 23, 2024

Does radiation from cell phones and cell towers affect human health?  There has long been controversy around this question, which the federal government has tried to put to rest by issuing findings that there is no clear evidence of a health impact and by refuting earlier studies that found that biological changes associated with radiofrequency radiation. But, as recent Freedom of Information Act requests demonstrate, the controversy isn’t going away. 

According to PoliScio Analytics’ competitive-intelligence database FOIAengine, which tracks FOIA requests in as close to real-time as their availability allows, 20 cell phone and cell tower radiation requests have been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Health since January of 2021.

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