Dr. Hirsch discusses that smart meters affect the entire body, and that must be factored in. When whole body standardization is used, the results change, and it is the digital utility meter that is the higher exposure.
Regulators and legislators are frequently expected to rely on data provided by utility companies – even when that data is outdated, selectively presented, or shaped by industry bias. This is an example of that problem. The independent research, peer-reviewed studies, and firsthand accounts from those directly affected are less likely to be heard.
For example, an Electric Power Research Institute study states that exposure is higher from a cell phone than a digital utility meter. Dr. Daniel Hirsch explains why this is not true.
The Environmental Health Trust website explains: “In the video below Daniel Hirsch, the retired director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and president (unpaid) of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a nuclear policy NGO explains his analysis of misleading reports on smartmeter radiation by EPRI, “When you correct for these two facts, the whole body and cumulative, rather than the cell phone being 100 times more exposure than a smartmeter, the smartmeter turns out to be roughly 100 times more exposure than a cell phones.”