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Jury is still out on EMFs and cancer

An expert panel recommended that electric and magnetic fields surrounding power lines and wires should be considered a possible human carcinogen.

References:

NIEHS Working Group. 1998. Assessment of health effects from exposure to power-line frequency electric and magnetic fields. (Available at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/emfrapid/home.htm).

Further Readings:

1994. Another way EMFs might harm tissues. Science News 145(Feb. 19):127.

Electric Power Research Institute. 1998. Cancer risk assessment of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields. April. Palo Alto, Calif.

Fackelmann, K.A. 1994. Do EMFs post breast cancer risk? Science News 145(June 18):388.

Raloff, J. 1998. Electromagnetic fields may trigger enzymes. Science News 153(Feb. 21):119.

______. 1998. EMF’s biological influences. Science News 153(Jan. 10):29.

Sources:

Electric Power Research Institute
3412 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1395
Web site: http://www.epri.com

EMF-RAPID Program/LCBRA NIEHS
P.O. Box 12233
MD EC-16
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
E-mail: emf-rapid@niehs.nih.gov

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