A Rationale for Biologically-based Public Exposure Standards for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF)

If you are looking for the science on EMF and ELF's, the BioInitiative Report is an amazing resource. This is especially significant for people that suffer from hypersensitivity to EMF. Also for anyone that has experienced health effects from overexposure to EMF in their environment. 

The BioInitiative 2012 Report has been prepared by 29 authors from ten countries, ten holding medical degrees (MDs), 21 PhDs, and three MsC, MA or MPHs. Among the authors are three former presidents of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, and five full members of BEMS.

Bioeffects are clearly established to occur with very low exposure levels (non-thermal levels) to electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation exposures.

Why We Care? 

The stakes are very high. Human beings are bioelectrical systems. Our hearts and brains are regulated by internal bioelectrical signals. Environmental exposures to artificial EMFs can interact with fundamental biological processes in the human body.

There is more evidence than we need. The last five years worth of new scientific studies tell us the situation is much worse than in 2007 and yet people around the world have so much more daily exposure than even five years ago.

Henry Lai’s Research Summaries

These are invaluable resources that can are searchable by key words. These abstracts cover the relevant peer-reviewed, published literature documenting biological effects of non-ionizing radiation (ELF-EMF, Static Fields and RFR).

In the ten years since the BioInitiative 2012 Report was posted, hundreds of new peer-reviewed research papers have been published. A clear majority of studies report biological effects as opposed to ’no effect’. The trend continues to show that exposure to low-intensity ELF-EMF/Static Fields and RFR at levels allowable under current federal public safety limits pose health risks. This body of literature strongly supports new, biologically based public exposure standards that are protective against exposure levels identified in this Report to cause effects at levels thousands of times lower than current FCC limits. See https://bioinitiative.org/research-summaries/ for all results including electrohypersensitivity and comet assay study results.

Disruptive EMF Summary Charts

The RF Color Charts for Disrupted Immune Function summarize studies reporting changes in immune cells (T-lymphocytes, natural killer cells, macrophages) and changes in cell membranes and repair. These effects occur at environmental levels of low-intensity radiofrequency radiation from wireless technology applications.

Disrupting the immune system can mean either abnormally increased activity or decreased activity (suppressed immune function). Disruption of immune system’s normal activity in either direction (upregulation or downregulation) on a chronic basis can be expected to result in tissue and organ damage, impaired immune capacity, loss of resilience and disease.

Whether the exposure intensifies or suppresses immune function is immaterial because both result in increased stress as the body is eventually overloaded in dealing with such repetitive, indiscriminate provocations to homeostatic balance.

Disrupted Immune Function from Exposure to Low-Intensity Non-Ionizing Radiation (Radiofrequency Radiation) (PDF)

Reference List Studies Reporting Disrupted Immune Function from Exposure to Low Intensity Radiofrequency Radiation (Non-thermal) (PDF)