Electromagnetic Field Toxicology Reporter

Evaluation and Assessment of Extremely Low Frequency EMF Bioeffects
Volume 1, Number 2, June 1999

Genotoxicity

by Robert B. Goldberg, Ph.D., Editor

Summary

This article starts out with a discussion of a large review of studies to determine whether EMFs are genotoxic and a large update to that review recently published. A study is summarized in which the investigators found that acute exposure to a 60-Hz, 0.5-mT (5-G) MF for 2 hours produced DNA strand breaks in the brain cells of rats. That finding was followed up by the same authors with additional work. A study by a group from Tokyo Electric Power Co. investigated the non-lethal mutagenic potential of ELF magnetic fields in fruit flies. [two pages, 5 references].

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