The health impacts of low-frequency electric and magnetic fields are widely discussed nowadays. The first impression is that quite a large amount of new scientific information is generated every year, but it is hard to keep on top of it all. However, I don’t think that truly new scientific data is being produced more than before; it is rather that different types of comments and summaries may be being generated in greater abundance.
Thanks to the Internet, it is now possible to acquire and distribute information in a quite efficient way, which is why the existing knowledge is moving more efficiently than it was before. This adds to the feeling of getting more new information than before, making it difficult to discern what is really happening. To keep you and myself better up to date as to what is going on with health issues related to low-frequency electric and magnetic fields, I have promised to edit a situation report bulletin (in Finnish) dealing with these issues a couple of times a year.
The goal of this project is to produce situation report bulletins on medical-oriented studies related to electric and magnetic fields for about two years, as these studies are particularly interesting from the perspective of population exposure. The aim is to achieve and maintain a clearer picture of the current situation with regard to different reports/studies and their significance. This will also equip the people working in transmission line projects to discuss the various issues with their interest groups and increase the companies’ transparency regarding research data. The project will focus on public exposure to electric and magnetic fields and the associated medical issues. The project is being funded by Fingrid Oyj, and the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy is involved in its management group.
Now the summary of the first situation report bulletin (1/2009) is published online in English.
I hope you enjoy reading this first brief summary!
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