Electromagnetic radiation in the news!

Concerning power lines and appliances:

USA Today conducted a survey of 4,567 readers and reported that electromagnetic fields, or EMF's, are the number one environmental concern in America. "EMF's - always present near power lines and working electrical appliances - are linked to such diseases as leukemia and breast cancer."

"The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) committee charged with evaluating the potential health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) has completed a draft report that calls for strong action to curtail the exposure of the U.S. population. "It took us nine years but we finally reached agreement," committee chair Dr. Ross Adey, of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Loma Linda, CA, told Microwave News.

A draft report prepared for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) generally endorses a 2 mG exposure limit. It would take effect immediately for new day care centers, schools and playgrounds, as well as for new transmission lines near existing housing. The report was funded by the EPA. Dr. Joe Elder, EPA's program officer for the NCRP study in Research Triangle Park, NC, called the committee's report "the first comprehensive review of the world's literature on EMF health effects."

Microwave News, July/August, 1995

"I have never seen a set of epidemiological studies that remotely approached the weight of evidence that we're seeing with ELF [extremely low frequency] electromagnetic fields. Clearly there is something here."

Martin Halper, EPA Director of Analysis and Support

"Electromagnetic fields are associated with the development of leukemia, brain cancer and other serious diseases."

Paul Brodeur, writer, The New Yorker Magazine, author of Currents of Death (Simon and Schuster), and The Great Power Line Coverup (Little, Brown).

"...studies on cats, rats, and chick brain cells have shown that low frequency electromagnetic radiation interacts with brain activity and could cause a host of negative symptoms from heightened stress and depression, slowed reaction time, and learning disabilities to miscarriages, fetal deformities, and cancer."

Business Week, Oct. 30, 1989.

"This is really harming people."

Dr. David Carpenter, Dean, School of Public Health, State University of New York, Albany.

When buying a home, it is important to check for EMF's. Homes "sold...for 30% less" when exposed to EMF's.

as reported by the Wall Street Journal, September 8, 1993.

According to a survey conducted by Indoor Air Review, 26% of homes have areas that register EMF fields exceeding 3 milligauss.

"...Sweden has concluded that EMF's do lead to higher rates of cancer...I, frankly was somewhat impressed by the arguments made by the Swedes." - President Bill Clinton
Concerning televisions and computer displays (VDTs)

"Most unsettling of all, perhaps, is the fact that the pulsed VLF and ELF magnetic fields found routinely within a radius of about two feet from the average CRT computer terminal can be as strong as, or even stronger than, the sixty-hertz magnetic fields found inside the homes in which Wertheirner and Savitz discovered children to be dying unduly of cancer."

The New Yorker, June, 1989.

"...sit at least ten feet away from the television set."

Time Magazine, July 17,1989.

A Swedish study has found that weak, pulsed magnetic fields similar to those emitted by VDTs can cause fetal abnormalities in the offspring of pregnant mice. According to Tom Brokaw of NBC News, "the findings no longer rule out the possibility that radiation can affect human fetuses." In Sweden, a major Swedish union (the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees, or TCO) is seeking more stringent limits, and pressure is being put on the Swedish government to change VDT work regulations to protect pregnant women.

A study released in February, 1991, by the University of Southern California (UCS) in Los Angeles has found an increased rate of leukemia among children who watch black and white televisions.

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