Updated EMF Links and Resources

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has a comprehensive page on EMF and ELF (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/emf/) (Extremely Low Frequency radiation, if you didn’t already know). The reports and findings definitely favor the optimistic side of the debates, with little to no indication that EMF is linked to health risks.

That’s pretty good news, I suppose…and it would be great news if I was just a bit less skeptical of government agencies, and the various telecommunications and other tech industry lobbyists that love them. It’s a bit like believing the banker when he tells you that there’s no risk involved in refinancing with a variable rate.

The United Nations’ World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/peh-emf/en/) is a bit less glowing in its findings, but still presents a more or less moderate picture of the potential hazards of EMF. Their International EMF Project (http://www.who.int/peh-emf/project/en) is probably the chief worldwide effort to ascertain EMF safety, and it seems refreshingly objective, although still occasionally plagued with the tendency to support the status quo via ‘inconclusive’ findings.

For those in the United Kingdom’s sphere, the HPA (Health Protection Agency) (http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&Page&HPAwebAutoListName/Page/1158934607698?p=1158934607698) offers an EMF page with useful reports, links, and resources. From the HPA site, one can also view the findings of the IEGMP (Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones) and the NRPB (National Radiological Protection Board, the pre-2005 precursor to the HPA).

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