A powerful trade organization, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electro-apparatuses for Households and Industry, known as FEA, struck swiftly in 1992. They forced the President of the Court of Seftigen, Canton of Bern, to issue a "gag order" against Drs. Hertel and Blanc. In March 1993, Dr. Hertel was convicted for "interfering with commerce" and prohibited from further publishing his results. However, Dr. Hertel stood his ground and fought this decision over the years.
Not long ago, this decision was reversed in a judgment delivered in Strasbourg, Austria, on August 25, 1998. The European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel's rights in the 1993 decision. The European Court of Human Rights also ruled that the "gag order" issued by the Swiss court in 1992 against Dr. Hertel, prohibiting him from declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous to human health, was contrary to the right to freedom of expression.
2006-08-29 23:41:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
because they make million and billions from the manufacturing of electrical goods and if he went public and told the truth about microwave goods their big corporation empire could be seriously effected even go bust because the public would probably stop buying any of their products and they would suffer their families would suffer and lots of people who work on the shop floor would suffer worst of all and their families and it would or could have an effect on the Swiss stock market and the economy also other manufacturers around the globe who make microwaves.i hope and would like to think most people have enough common sense to realise that if they have a microwave to not use it too regularly.
2006-08-30 06:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by ralphthemouth 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gee I don't know, do you think it might be something to do with the fact that the FEA make their money selling (amongst other things) microwave ovens, and Dr Hertel was claiming that microwave ovens are dangerous to human health?
2006-08-29 23:51:52 · answer #2 · answered by Graham I 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Looking at your questions it's quite clear you are a monomaniacal nutjob. Maybe it's a worldwide conspiracy by Islamic microwave oven manufacturers to corrupt our youth into eating scalding hot pop-tarts.
2006-08-29 23:47:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
get a life
2006-08-29 23:50:14 · answer #4 · answered by break 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋