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Guidance levels
The most widely used exposure guidance is written
by the International Commission on Non-Ionising
Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). Their guidance levels
are set to prevent tissue heating. This allows quite
high-level exposures and it states that it is not
intended to protect against cancer or any other low-
level reported adverse health effects as they do not
consider them to be adequately proven. The USA
FCC/IEEE guidance levels are similar in that they also
allow quite high levels of exposure.
Russia, China and various other countries have set
more restrictive guidance for environmental
exposures based on their interpretation of the
published scientific evidence.
The most comprehensive current overview of the
science came from an experienced group of 15
leading European health scientists and medics
(EUROPAEM 2016). They state these are for “the
prevention, diagnosis and treatment of EMF-related
health problems and illnesses”.
Other reviews and guidance are available including
the BioInitiative Reports; Bau-Biologie Guidelines;
International Guidelines on Non-Ionising Radiation
(IGNIR), which was produced by a UK group as a
practical guide to implementing the EUROPAEM
guidelines. The graphic on the next page puts all of
these in context with typical real-life exposures.