Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (1999) / Chapter Skim
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carry out research, development, and demonstration with respect to technologies to mitigate any adverse human health effects; and (3) provide for dissemination of information ...
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. Without the delay additional peer-reviewed publications might have been available as EMF-RAPID came to a close for appropriate agencies to evaluate potential health effects.
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The other engineering studies are of value primarily as a compilation of state-of-the-art MF measurement practices. The engineering studies contributed nothing directly to the question of health effects but did show that temporally-averaged MF exposures of subjects in a broad range of occupations and residential environments were remarkably similar.
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These studies attempted to reproduce earlier reports of MF effects. Value of studies for evaluation of possible power-frequency magneticfieldt hearth elects Project reports in the first and third categories have limited value for evaluation of MF health effects.
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In vitro studies Evaluation of the question of possible health effects of power-frequency MFs is handicapped by the absence of any robust effect that can be reproduced consistently from one independent laboratory to another. The EMF-RAPID in vitro replication studies further illustrate this problem.
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That leaves the database slightly larger and the conclusions essentially unchanged from the Research Council's most recent review (NRC 19971. Funding mechanism The committee concludes that the NTEHS EMF-RAPID biologic research program would have benefited from a contract-funding approach with a requirement for complete reports and/or peer-reviewed publications at program's end.
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NIEHS selected 31 scientists in and outside EMF research to make up a Working Group which met 16-24 June 1998 in Brooklyn Park, MN to review the published information on possible EMF health effects. Using International Agency for Research on Cancer classifications, the working group produced a report identifying EMF as a "possible human carcinogen".
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2) If, however, Congress determines that another time-limited, focused research program on the health effects of power-frequency magnetic fields is warranted, the committee recommends that emphasis be placed on replications of studies that have yielded scientifically promising claims of effects and that have been reported in peerreviewed journals.
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5) The committee recommends that further material produced to disseminate information on power-frequency magnetic fields be written for the general public in a clear fashion.
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