Health Issues

Quotes

"Link between electromagnetic fields and childhood cancer unresolved"
"From World Health Organisation's viewpoint, although the UKCCS is very large and well conducted, it is not the 'definitive' study many scientists have been hoping for."

"The research concerns only magnetic fields and not electric fields." ( Papers published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology on 1st December 1999 ignored.)
"Study designed many years ago and relies on time-weighted averages (TWA)"
"The Study is not definitive because ofthe low nwmbers of children in the higher exposure categories."
"The small numbers of cases and controls in the higher exposure categories are unlikely to significantly affect the results of previous meta-analyses and reviews suggesting a weak link behveen power frequency magnetic field exposure and childhood leukaemia"

Prof. Michael H Repachoil
Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, WHO

Anders Ahlbom National Institute ofEnvironmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Sweden