EMF Testing for Prospective Lawsuits

Occasionally, we receive calls from persons seeking to sue a neighbor, a telecom, or an electrical power company because they believe that electromagnetic radiation from either local RF antennas or electrical power lines has caused their ill health. Of course, we empathize with their health situation. Still, we have instituted a company policy that will not test anyone seeking to file a lawsuit based on EMF levels or their measured exposure. This includes one’s perceived exposure, primarily measured levels. Incidentally, if you have entered into a contract on a new property and then later decide to test the radiation levels emitted by a nearby cell tower or power line, it is probably too late to back out without penalty unless you have a clause in place releasing you. (Our reasons are explained below.)

99.99% of the time, if measured correctly, your exposure to EMF is unlikely to exceed just 2% of the FCC guidelines for RF exposure or the US government’s safety level limit for AC magnetic leakage exposure from power lines.

Since the Carter years, we have been in the Age of Litigation. All too often, reason and common sense are tossed out the window. The first and only immediate recourse that too many consider for action towards accomplishing is to take the lazy approach, suing their antagonist rather than communicating an effort towards working out an agreeable solution.

I will share one secret for our success: It has been through communication and cooperative effort with the various local telecom and power companies that have proven to be the best approach for Elexana and our clients.

On the level of telecom which we deal with, these folks are generally hard-working people with families who believe they are serving humanity by providing excellent wireless service. They don't know or think they're causing harm. The telecoms do not want someone to get vertigo and fall off a roof or ladder if a shift or relocation of a transmitter will prevent the situation from occurring.

The electrical power companies do not want their equipment to leak strong magnetic fields onto a community. This leakage portends a waste of valuable energy and economic waste. Any significant radiation emissions indicate the need for equipment to be tuned, repaired, or updated.

I’ve measured radiofrequency radiation at countless New York City TriState locations. Never have I come close to the FCC guidelines. Based on what I've written here:

Hand-Held Radio Frequency Meters: The Pros and Cons,

I advise you to refrain from purchasing a hand-held meter, hiring an "EMF expert," or contracting an attorney with the hope of revealing RF levels exceeding the FCC guidelines, to winning a lawsuit.

Ipso facto, please don't call on Elexana if you want us to measure a nearby cell tower to initiate a lawsuit based on RF levels. While I'm at it, please do not call on us to measure power line AC Magnetic Field flux-density levels to engage in a suit. The measurements will not exceed US government/ IEEE safety levels. You have other options.

Hopefully, our stance is clear; if not, I will repeat myself: Elexana LLC will not engage in testing for a prospective lawsuit. This task wastes our limited scheduling availability and your hard-earned money.

If you think our advice is incorrect, please read President Bill Clinton's Telecom Act of 1996 and President Barack Obama's 2012 and 2014 addendums. I assure you that any lawsuit pursuing legal action levied against a telecom based on emission power densities or even an energy company's power line radiation emission is futile unless the laws change.