Can better exposure assessment resolve the uncertainties about EMF cancer risks

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• Personal Author:
  Bowman, Joseph D. ; Kromhout H ; Leonowich JA ; Yost MG
• Description:
  The evaluation of potential health effects from electric and magnetic fields (EMF) is a major challenge for the occupational and environmental health sciences. EMF from electric power has been associated with leukemia risks in children and workers, but these epidemiologic findings have been controversial. Now EMF cancer risks from mobile phones are being studied, while magnetic resonance imaging and many new wireless technologies need to be evaluated. This roundtable will discuss the challenges of assessing EMF exposures across the frequency spectrum: static fields, extremely low frequency (ELF), very low frequencies (VLF), radio frequencies (RF), and microwaves. Is it enough to assess exposures with the metrics of the ICNIRP guidelines and TLVs (Table 1), or should we be measuring EMF characteristics like modulation or polarization, which the exposure guidelines consider irrelevant to health effects? Can evaluating exposure and dose metrics based on unproven biophysical mechanisms help avoid the uncertainties which now surround cancer risks from ELF fields? [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Epidemiology Mental Health Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Employee-exposure Etiology Exposure-assessment Job-analysis Job-stress Musculoskeletal-system Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Physical-stress Physiological-factors Physiological-stress Psychological-factors Psychological-stress Risk-analysis Sociological-factors Work-environment Worker-health

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• ISBN:
  9789170456077
• ISSN:
  0346-7821
• Publisher:
  Arbetslivsinstitutet
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  420-422
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041294
• Citation:
  Arbete och Halsa 2001 Jun; 2001(10):420-422
• Contact Point Address:
  J. D. Bowman, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA
• Email:
  JBowman@cdc.gov
• Editor(s):
  Hagsberg M; Knave B; Lillienberg L; Westberg H
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Arbete och Halsa (X2001 - exposure assessment in epidemiology and practice, June 10-13, 2001, Göteborg, Sweden)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193897/cdc_193897_DS1.pdf
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