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December 2016

French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) report on Smart Meters

ANSES concludes that it is unlikely that exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by either radio-frequency smart meters (gas and water) or other meters (electricity), as they are currently being deployed, would generate health effects in either the short or the long term ... click here for more information


September 2016

A Closer Look at the Thresholds of Thermal Damage: Workshop Report by an ICNIRP Task Group

The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection issued guidelines in 1998 for limiting public and occupational exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (100 kHz to 300 GHz). ... click here for more information


June 2016

Health Council of the Netherlands – Report on Mobile Phones and Cancer

In a report published today, the Health Council of the Netherlands says it has not been proven that making frequent long-term mobile phone calls leads to tumours in the head ... click here for more information


May 2016

Swedish Radiation Safety Authority – latest report on EMF and Health

Thirteen years of electromagnetic field research monitored by SSM’s Scientific Council on EMF and health: How has the evidence changed over time?

Most research in the past decade has been done into a possible relation between mobile phone use and brain tumours. Epidemiological studies have provided weak indications for an association between frequent and long-term use of a mobile phone and gliomas (malign tumours of the brain tissue) and vestibular schwannomas (also called acoustic neuromas, a benign tumour of the vestibulocochlear nerve that connects the ear to the inner brain) ... click here for more information


US National Toxicology Program - Report of Partial findings from the NTP Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation

The US National Toxicology Program (NTP) has carried out extensive rodent toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of radiofrequency radiation (RFR) at frequencies and modulations used in the US telecommunications industry ... click here for more information