Cie. EMV Gezondheidsraad volhardt in haar standpunt: alleen thermische effecten zijn schadelijk.
maandag, 23 mei 2011 - Categorie: Onderzoeken
Bron: International Journal of Hyperthermia. 2011;27(4):399-404.
Health Council of the Netherlands: No need to change from SAR to time-temperature relation in electromagnetic fields exposure limits.
van Rhoon GC, Aleman A, Kelfkens G, Kromhout H, Van Leeuwen FE, Savelkoul HF, Wadman WJ, Van De Weerdt RD, Zwamborn AP, Van Rongen E, The Electromagnetic Fields Committee Of The Health Council Of The Netherlands.
Source: Erasmus University Medical Centre , Rotterdam.
Abstract
The Health Council of the Netherlands (HCN) and other organisations hold the basic assumption that induced electric current and the generation and absorption of heat in biological material caused by radiofrequency electromagnetic fields are the only causal effects with possible adverse consequences for human health that have been scientifically established to date.
Hence, the exposure guidelines for the 10?MHz-10?GHz frequency range are based on avoiding adverse effects of increased temperatures that may occur of the entire human body at a specific absorption rate (SAR) level above 4?W/kg. During the workshop on Thermal Aspects of Radio Frequency Exposure on 11-12 January 2010 in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, the question was raised whether there would be a practical advantage in shifting from expressing the exposure limits in SAR to expressing them in terms of a maximum allowable temperature increase.
This would mean defining adverse time-temperature thresholds.
In this paper, the HCN discusses the need for this, considering six points: consistency, applicability, quantification, causality, comprehensibility and acceptability. The HCN concludes that it seems unlikely that a change of dosimetric quantity will help us forward in the discussion on the scientific controversies regarding the existence or non-existence of non-thermal effects in humans following long duration, low intensity exposure to electromagnetic fields.
Therefore, the HCN favours maintaining the current approach of basic restrictions and reference levels being expressed as SAR and in V/m or µT, respectively.
Voor het originele abstract zie:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21591902?dopt=Abstract .
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