After spending more than $7 million over the last eight years, the California Department of Health Services (DHS) will soon issue the strongest warning to date on the potential health risks from exposure to power-frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs).
Drs. Raymond Neutra, Vincent DelPizzo and Geraldine Lee, who wrote the report, conclude that they are inclined to believe that EMFs are a cause of childhood leukemia, adult brain cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and miscarriages.
The final report of the EMF Program, which runs more than 500 pages including appendices, has not yet been released, but Microwave News has obtained a copy. It is slowly working its way through the bureaucracy, said Neutra of the DHS, who led the program. He expects to submit it to the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) at the end of the summer.
We lowered a few of the risk estimates, but overall the conclusions in the final report are very similar to those in the draft, said DelPizzo, who served as research director of the EMF program before retiring recently to Reno, NV.
The report does not include recommendations on how to protect against any of the identified health risks.
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