{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890","number":"0890","name":"","organization":"10 Million Moms for Safer Telecom","posted":"2026-09-25T04:00Z","received":"2026-09-25T04:00Z","body":"Submitted by: Beverly A. Jensen, Ph.D.\nOrganization: 10 Million Moms for Safer Telecom\n\n1. Who I Am\nI am Beverly A. Jensen, Ph.D., a public health specialist with a doctoral degree in Communication from the University of Washington (1987) and over 30 years managing public health campaigns. I am the founder of 10 Million Moms for Safer Telecom, a national mother-led movement to protect children from wireless radiation. The number 10 million is near the 3% that can shift culture and drive safer regulations. I operate KidsandEMF.com and WomensMedicineBowl.com, a science and policy resource since 2003. These comments represent my professional perspective, my lived experience, and the concerns of families I have worked with since 2019.\n\n2. What I Have Observed\nI am both a public health specialist and an individual with documented adverse health effects from EMF exposure -- mirroring what hundreds have reported to me.\n\n2019 -- Onset of EMF Sensitivity: In early 2019, walking in Washington, D.C., I experienced immediate skin burning near a concealed cell tower, after three months at four feet from a router 8-10 hours/day. In Seattle I measured a router at 297,000 uV/m -- far exceeding the Building Biology guideline of 1,000 uV/m for sleeping areas. Shielding it dropped radiation 97% while WiFi remained functional. A warning label could have prevented years of exposure.\n\nJuly 2020 -- Neurological Symptoms: I experienced severe headaches -- my first in 72 years. An ER MRI confirmed a fully healthy brain. Headaches correlated with high-RF environments and resolved when I left them. No practitioner questioned the environmental variable. Six years later, that is still true.\n\nFebruary 2023 -- Cardiac Arrhythmia at 36K feet: Aboard a Lufthansa red-eye with active WiFi, I experienced serious cardiac arrhythmia. No exertion or stress was involved. I required PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic field) intervention twice during the eight-hour flight. Cardiologists had found no structural cause; RF exposure was never investigated. RF is well documented to amplify in enclosed metal containers as devices search for signal. This deserves serious federal attention.\n\nWhat Mothers Are Reporting: Headaches beginning when schools installed WiFi. Sleep disruption resolving when routers were turned off. A 5-year-old with a cardiac event leaving a school yard with a cell tower -- now with permanent brain damage. An 11-year-old needing retina surgery with no prior screen safety guidance. Families in buildings with 140+ networks have fewest options. I exclude myself from most social events due to RF exposure. These symptom clusters -- headaches, tinnitus, sleep disruption, anxiety, fatigue, cardiac arrhythmia -- are consistent across thousands of families worldwide. The medical system fails to investigate. The independent science is in the attached Research Brief.\n\n3. What I Am Asking HHS to Do\n- Update RF exposure limits to reflect post-1996 science, protecting children in schools, hospitals, and elder care\n- Fund independent research on long-term, cumulative RF exposure -- not industry-funded studies\n- Require Safe Use directions and distance labels at point of sale for all wireless devices\n- Establish a federal clearinghouse for RF-associated health symptom reporting\n- Coordinate with FCC on minimum-distance rules for cell infrastructure near schools and healthcare facilities\n- Require warning labels on all wireless devices\n- Commission a systematic review of electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) as a recognized condition\n- Introduce RF monitoring and mitigation standards to OSHA for workplace protection\n- Establish federal oversight of the proliferation of embedded wireless transmitters in consumer products -- including children's toys, infant equipment, and smart home systems -- where no agency regulates their inclusion and no consumer consent is required\n\n4. Why Mothers Are the Right Constituency\nThe movements that produced lasting change -- lead paint, tobacco, drunk driving, car seats -- were driven by mothers who refused preventable harm. 10 Million Moms for Safer Telecom supplies that same political will around wireless radiation. We are building toward the 3% social tipping threshold. I urge HHS to treat this RFI as the beginning of a sustained policy process. The mothers of America are watching and will hold this administration accountable.\n\nRespectfully submitted,\nBeverly A. Jensen, Ph.D.\nFounder, 10 Million Moms for Safer Telecom\nwww.KidsandEMF.com\nwww.WomensMedicineBowl.com\n","attachments":["https://downloads.regulations.gov/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890/attachment_1.pdf","https://downloads.regulations.gov/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890/attachment_1.docx","https://downloads.regulations.gov/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890/attachment_2.pdf","https://downloads.regulations.gov/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890/attachment_2.txt","https://downloads.regulations.gov/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890/attachment_3.pdf","https://downloads.regulations.gov/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890/attachment_3.docx"],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890","tags":["child-development","health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places","policy-standards","research-evidence"],"source_hash":"0fb32cf4550b33888df7ecc694cab5707c87f4c6774aea9f16b8efb3e75b0eb0","slug":"child-development-comment-0890","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0890","body_sha256":"a3ebad38e23b0a7ec991751ac2718bf960fe8da5993f152ad5829ed9e9ae231c","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"standards","topics":[{"id":"standards","evidence":"ent science is in the attached Research Brief.\n\n3. 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