With growing concern being expressed that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) may cause various health effects and that everyone in the world, both in developed and developing countries, is now subjected to EMF from manmade sources, WHO established the International EMF Project in 1996 to determine if there were adverse health effects that could result that needed to be addressed. Thus the Project was set up in a logical sequence of steps that would address this issue in a valid scientific manner over a reasonable time period. Briefly the International EMF Project provides: a co-ordinated international response to the concerns about possible health effects of exposure to EMF; assesses the scientific literature and make status reports on health effects; identifies gaps in knowledge needing further research to make better health risk assessments; encourages a high quality, focused research programme to fill important gaps in knowledge; incorporates research results into WHO Environmental Health Criteria monographs, in which formal health risk assessments of exposure to EMF will be made; provides information on risk perception, risk communication and risk management as they apply to EMF; provides advice and publications to national authorities on EMF issues; and facilitates the development of internationally acceptable standards for EMF exposure. This presentation provides an update of activities and results of the EMF Project to date.
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