Magnetic fields in cars

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I am sorry that this totally irresponsible massmedial fallout is in Swedish 

- not because of its "entertainment value" but because it is serious - a 

most likely non-existing but headlined hypothetical risk may divert money 

resources to the vultures that can get a good meal from this while obvious 

and real problems will be forgotten:



http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/bil/story/0,2789,131847,00.html

http://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/vib_stralningen/Stralningen1.htm

Don't miss the illustration of "radiation" in the picture - it could just as 

well been an artistic or engineering description of some atomic bomb 

explosion.



The "information" provided tells something like: "To sit in a car is just as 

dangerous as standing under a power line. Inside the cars there are extreme 

magnetic field strengths - up to eighty times higher than normal. Much lower 

fields have been shown to cause childhood leukemias and miscarriages."



http://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/vib_stralningen/Stralningen2.htm

There is a reference to a newly published Californian study where it has 

been found that pregnant women had miscarriages after exposure to magnetic 

field environments above 1.6 microtesla. (I am interested in this reference 

if any Radsafer can help)



A preofessor mentioned in the article talks about pregnant women and that 

children are particularly sensitive. He has to my knowledge a physics 

background. If you break a leg you don't go to a gynecologist or expert on 

liver transplantations - I guess most people understand this.



http://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/vib_stralningen/Stralningen4_Bengt.htm

(the man on the picture got problems with his left foot and suggests that it 

was because of magnetic fields in his car - he has measured 17.8 microtesla 

right there if I recall a text legend correctly...)



1.6 microtesla, 17.8 microtesla, a few years ago it was 140 nanotesla (TV 

program about magnetic fields in cars) that was dangerous. Aren't you 

impressed by the precision? Why should I panic if no studies convincingly 

can show cancer induction at tens or hundreds of microtesla levels? (I 

probably exposed myself to tesla levels BTW - just for the fun of it - 30 

years ago at a biomedical laboratory - I did indeed see these light flashes 

- and obviously still live - but admit that this statistics is weak... :-).



My personal initiative & reflections only,



Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com

http://www.geocities.com/bjorn_cedervall/







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