Re: EMF Health Effects

["GORDON MILLER" <gordon_miller@lccmail.ocf.llnl.gov>]

        Reply to:   RE>EMF Health Effects
The report was leaked by a disgruntled member who thinks they're going too far.
 Key points are:

o	Committee 89-3 led by Ross Adey; issued June 13, 1995#000#
o	"Epidemiological studies...indicate a positive association between childhood
cancers and exposures to magnetic fields, on the order of 0.2 mT..."#000#
o	They propose interim exposure guides:
   o	Adopt ALARA policy with non-occ' goals of 10 mG  and 100 V/m
 			attained in three yrs. and 5 mG and 50 V/m in six  yrs. with
 			ultimate goal of 2 mG and 10 V/m attainment depending on
 			socioeconomic considerations (they mention 1 mG in  passing)#000#
	o	Occupational goals of 100 mG and 1 kV/m as time-weighted 
      average exposure limits#000#
	o	New schools, day care centers and playgrounds not be built
 			where fields exceed 2 mG#000#
	o	New housing not built near existing lines where fields exceed 2
 			mG for >2 hrs. daily
	o	New lines not built where home exposures would exceed 2 mG in
      existing housing, and#000#
	o	Design considerations for new offices should seek to keep
 			exposures from >static - 3 kHz below 2 mG.

I do not endorse their stance; these key points are reiterated here for
information purposes.  For a fuller text, please see Microwave News'
July/August 1995 issue.

Those who thought the APS position put this issue to bed - think again!

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Date: 9/19/95 3:29 PM
To: GORDON MILLER
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu

I just got a letter from Organization Resources Counselors, Inc.
indicating that in the August 18, 1995 issue of Science there is a
report that the NCRP has prepared a draft document which concludes that
some kinds of cancers and immune system disorders may be linked to
electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures. Have any of you read the draft
and/or article and can comment on it? It allegedly makes recommendations
for construction of new housing, day-care centers, etc. and limits of
exposure at some of these facilities (0.2 microtesla). Tell me it ain't
so!

Donald P. Mercado, O/47-20, B/106      PROFS Nickname: DMERCADO
Radiation Safety Officer        Internet: Don@LMSC.Lockheed.com
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space            Tel. (408) 742-0759
Sunnyvale, Ca 94089                         Fax. (408) 742-0611

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