Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz). guideline

Summary

General information

• Publishing organization: International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)
• Origin: international
• Publication type: guideline
• Scope: international
• Pertains: general public, occupationally exposed persons
• Date of publication: 4/1/98

Exposure

• • 300 GHz
  • electric field
  • low frequency
  • RF field
• • mobile communications
• • occupational

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Comments on this article

• Hietanen M (2006): Establishing the health risks of exposure to radiofrequency fields requires multidisciplinary research.
• Lin JC (2006): Radio-Frequency Radiation Safety and Health - The New IEEE Standard for Human Exposure to Radio-Frequency Radiation and the Current ICNIRP Guidelines.
• Lin JC (2006): A new IEEE standard for safety levels with respect to human exposure to radio-frequency radiation
• Foster KR et al. (2004): Biological effects of radiofrequency fields: does modulation matter?
• Hondou T (2002): Rising Level of Public Exposure to Mobile Phones: Accumulation through Additivity and Reflectivity.
• Reilly JP (1999): Comments concerning "Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz)".
• Bailey WH (1999): ICNIRP recommendation for limiting public exposure to 4-Hz-1-kHz electric and magnetic fields--need for peer review.
• International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) (1998): Erratum: Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz). International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.
• Koops FB (1998): New ICNIRP guidelines for human exposure to 50 Hz E- and M-fields.
• Herbertz J (1998): Comment on the ICNIRP guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields.

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