Electromagnetic Field Toxicology Reporter

Evaluation and Assessment of Extremely Low Frequency EMF Bioeffects
Volume 1, Number 3, September 1999

Epidemiologic Studies of Residential EMF Exposures

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

Summary

A large five-province Canadian study of childhood leukemia and residential proximity to power transmission and distribution lines was reviewed and discussed. The discussion moves to the question of whether whether the indirect measure of high current configuration wire code has any strong correlation with the seemingly more direct measures of magnetic field intensity. A report is presented and discussed of a cancer cluster in an Amazonian village near two 500-kV power transmission lines. It highlights the difficulties of assessing EMF health effects for rare illnesses in a small genetically distinct and geographically isolated population. A report from the Electric Power Research Institute is reviewed containing a detailed retrospective analysis of the existing epidemiologic evidence for an association between residential EMF exposure and childhood brain tumors. [three pages, 5 references].

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