Parliament of Canada

Q-301 , 41st Parliament, 2nd session October 16, 2013, to August 2, 2015

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Asked by
Libby Davies (Vancouver East)
Date asked
February 11, 2014
Answered
March 28, 2014
With regard to The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Expert Panel on Safety Code 6: (a) which department and persons within the government were responsible for contracting RSC to conduct the expert panel; (b) what were the criteria for selecting an organization to conduct the expert panel; (c) what is the mandate of the expert panel; and (d) why was the sentence “certain members of the general public may be more susceptible to harm from microwave exposure” removed from the 2009 Safety Code 6 update and will it be included in this year’s update of Safety Code 6 following the conclusion of RSC Expert Panel on Safety Code 6?
Topics
Electromagnetic radiation Expert panels Limits of Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Energy in the Frequency Range from 3 kHz to 300 GHz Medical research Public health Royal Society of Canada Wireless communication

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Response
Debates (Hansard) 64
March 28, 2014
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