A review of the international electromagnetic exposure guidelines is underway both by the European Union and the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). The new guidelines from the ICNIRP have not yet been published; however, in autumn 2009, the ICNIRP gave us the opportunity to have a look at their draft in advance. This time they wanted to receive feedback before announcing their final guidelines. The new element in the ICNIRP proposition is that current density values have been replaced by internal electric field values in the human body. Otherwise the proposed exposure limits seem to have remained unchanged with regard to the electric system.
Even though the new guidelines could not yet be included in this bulletin, other interesting information will be provided. We start with a couple of articles presented at the BioEM2009 conference, an annual event for researchers in the field that offers them the opportunity to check out the latest global research trends.
The last article in the bulletin is my own article. It discusses occupational exposure at 400 kV substations and power lines. I thought it might interest our readers – and, obviously, it is nice to be able to report that such an extensive study has reached a stage where it could be published at international level.
Now the summary of the second situation report bulletin (2/2009) ispublished online in English.
I hope you enjoy reading this second brief summary!
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