Featuring Ronald Melnick, Ph.D.
Former Senior Toxicologist, National Toxicology Program (NTP)

Hosted by: The Collaborative for Health & Environment and Environmental Health Sciences

Date: September 30, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
Location: Online via Zoom

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Health and Human Services are both seeking public input on wireless radiation and health. This webinar offers a timely opportunity to hear from one of the scientists who helped lead the U.S. government’s landmark research on cell phone radiation.

Ronald Melnick, Ph.D. served for more than 28 years as a senior toxicologist with the National Toxicology Program (NTP) at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, where he helped design the NTP’s landmark studies on cell phone radiofrequency (RF) radiation. Those studies, together with the Ramazzini Institute research, found increased cancer in laboratory animals chronically exposed to RF radiation.

During this webinar, Dr. Melnick will discuss the scientific evidence linking wireless radiation to cancer and reproductive harm, explain why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration nominated RF radiation for study by the NTP, and review the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) 2011 evaluation that classified RF radiation as a possible human carcinogen.

He will also explain why the WHO-commissioned systematic reviews on RF radiation should not be interpreted as evidence of safety and discuss the methodological shortcomings identified in “WHO Commissioned Systematic Reviews on Health Effects of Radiofrequency Radiation Provide No Assurance of Safety,” published in Environmental Health. (Read the paper)

The webinar will examine the scientific basis of the RF exposure limits adopted by the FCC, ICNIRP, and IEEE, drawing from the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) publication “Scientific Evidence Invalidates Health Assumptions Underlying the FCC and ICNIRP Exposure Limit Determinations for Radiofrequency Radiation: Implications for 5G.” (Read the paper)

Finally, Dr. Melnick will present his team’s latest quantitative cancer risk assessment, “Cancer Risk Assessment of Radiofrequency Radiation Using U.S. EPA Methodology,” which applied EPA cancer risk methods to the NTP findings. The analysis concluded that current FCC, IEEE and ICNIRP exposure limits are at least 200 times too high to protect against cancer risk and 24 times too high to protect against reproductive harm. (Read the paper)

About Ronald Melnick, Ph.D.

Ronald Melnick, Ph.D., served for more than 28 years as a senior toxicologist with the National Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He led the design and interpretation of numerous toxicity and carcinogenicity studies, including the NTP’s landmark investigations of cell phone radiofrequency radiation. He is Senior Science Advisor and Past Chair of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF).

Dr. Melnick has served on numerous scientific advisory committees and review panels, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). He also served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and is a Fellow (Emeritus) of the Collegium Ramazzini and has published several papers on RF as well as other environmental health issues. 

The webinar will be moderated by Theodora Scarato, Director of the Wireless and EMF Program at Environmental Health Sciences. (Biography)

For additional information, visit the https://www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars/97191