POTENZA PICENA RESOLUTION

POTENZA PICENA RESOLUTION

April 20th, 2013

On April 20th, 2013 the International congress of Potenza Picena entitled “Radar,

radiofrequency and health risk”, reached the following conclusions:


- radars use pulsed radiofrequency that causes characteristic biological effects which are more

invasive than non pulsed EMF;

- radiofrequency can cause structural changes in enzymes with time reactions of nanoseconds,

while the pulsed radiofrequencies emitted by radars occur every milliseconds, thus

suggesting that for every pulsing event several enzymatic changes occur;

- the pulsed signals can induce significant modifications on DNA regulations as an effect of

the methylation of the genome;

- scientific literature concludes that biological/health effects can occur at low intensity

exposure and chronic exposure can make a living organism more susceptible to the effect of

- ICEMS monograph (Eur. J. Oncol., 2010) concludes that there are non thermal mechanisms

of action of EMF (including RF) on the living matter;

- experiments on cell cultured in residential areas in Potenza Picena showed that the radar

signal activates apoptosis for short exposures and cell survival signal after 24 hours of

- preliminary results of animal experiments show that radiofrequency is a co-carcinogenic

- radiofrequency induces oxidative stress processes in tissues and living organisms;

- different epidemiological studies show that there is a significant increase of health risks on

the people exposed to pulsed radiofrequency and more studies need to be done to conclude

especially about pulsed radiofrequency;

- scientific literature suggests that for EMF the precautionary principle should be

internationally adopted;


Thus, stricter safety standards for EMF needs to be adopted by governments and public

health agencies because the existing ones are obsolete and they are not based on recent literature

According to the precautionary principle RF sources should be reduced as low as possible

because at now it is not possible to establish a safe limit under which no biological effects can be

RF sources should be kept far from residential areas. For pulsed RF sources, such radars and

Wi-Max antennas, the distance from the EMF source should be even greater because they cause

more biologically effects than non pulsed signals.


Wi-Fi should not be placed in schools and in public areas since they have characteristics of

The precautionary principle suggests to use special caution for the younger people and for

susceptible such as those with Electromagnetic Hyper Sensitivity a condition growing in modern

societies that makes people sick for exposure to EMF even at low level of intensity.

Prof. Massimo Scalia, physicist, CIRPS at University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Dr. Eleonora Miranda, Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Council of Research, biologist,
Bologna, Italy

Maurizio Brizzi, Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Bologna, Italy.

Prof. Mario Barteri, chemist, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Ian Marc Bonapace, Assistant Professor. Department of Structural and Functional Biology,
University Insubria, Busto Arsizio (Varese), Italy

Prof. Henry Lai, Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Dr. PhD Livio Giuliani, mathematician, University La Tuscia, Viterbo; ICEMS spokesman

Dr. Fiorenzo Marinelli, biologist, Institute of Molecular Genetics, National Research Council
Bologna, Italy; Scientific Secreteriat, Member, ICEMS;

Olle Johansson, Associate Professor, Karolinska Institute, histology; cell biology; basic and applied
neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr. Michela Padovani, biologist, Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center of the Ramazzini
Institute, Bologna, Italy

Prof. Dr. Nesrin Seyhan, biophysicist, Founding Chair, Biophysics Dept. of Gazi University,
Ankara, Turkey; Founding Director, GNRK Center; Scientific Secreteriat Member, ICEMS;
Advisory Committee Member, WHO EMF

Dr. Maurizio Fontana, physician, Genova, Italy

Mr. Örjan Hallberg, MSc Electrical Engineering, Hallberg Independent Research, Farsta, Sweden