06/04/2013
A study of childhood leukaemia and proximity to high-voltage power lines was published in April 2013.
It finds elevated risks within 50 m of the highest voltage lines, but not at greater distances, and not for the lower-voltage lines.
by Hayley Tripp
06/04/2013
A study of childhood leukaemia and proximity to high-voltage power lines was published in April 2013.
It finds elevated risks within 50 m of the highest voltage lines, but not at greater distances, and not for the lower-voltage lines.
by Hayley Tripp
01/04/2013
The Health Protection Agency was the body charged from 2005 to 2013 with giving advice on radiation protection (which, in UK legal terminology, includes EMFs).
On 1 April 2013 they became part of the new Public Health England.
by Hayley Tripp
20/03/2013
The Energy Networks Association has published Engineering Recommendation G92. This follows on from the SAGE process, specifically SAGE’s Second Interim Assessment which considered low-voltage distribution networks. It sets out a number of measures to do with reducing magnetic fields, mainly endorsing and formalising existing best practice.
by Hayley Tripp
22/01/2013
The Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU) at Imperial College have published the first results from a study of adult cancer and residential proximity to high-voltage overhead power lines in the UK.
The study is very largely negative and concludes:
“In summary, our results do not support an epidemiologic association of adult cancers with proximity to residential magnetic fields from high-voltage overhead power lines.”
link to the study on the journal website
by Hayley Tripp
07/01/2013
The Bioinitiative Report was first issued in 2007 by a group of scientists assembled for the purpose and provides an alternative view of the science to other review bodies, calling for much lower exposure limits.
The Report was updated and reissued in 2012. The changes are mainly to do with radiofrequencies.
by Hayley Tripp
07/09/2012
The CEGB Cohort Study tracks a cohort of workers in the UK electricity industry (the then nationlised Central Electricity Generating Board) and looks at cause of death for any associations with occupational risk factors, including EMFs. It has now expanded to include cancer incidence as well as mortality.
The first publication on incidence finds
by Hayley Tripp
01/07/2012
by Hayley Tripp
06/12/2011
The House of Commons Library has published a Research Paper on “Electricity Substations and Health”.
by Hayley Tripp
21/10/2011
SAGE is the UK’s Stakeholder Advisory Group on ELF EMFs. It published its Second Interim Assessment in June 2010. This contained various recommendations about possible precautionary measures to reduce exposures to EMFs from the distribution system.
The Government Response to the Second Interim Assessment was published on 21 October 2011. It broadly supports SAGE’s recommendations, disagreeing with only one (optimal phasing for some intermediate voltage lines), but suggesting low-key, voluntary methods of implementing the recommendations.
see:
by Hayley Tripp
14/06/2011
The EU Commission has issued its proposed new Directive on limiting occupational exposure, to replace the 2004 Directive which is currently in abeyance.
see:
more on exposure limits produced by the EU
a summary of the new proposals on this site
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