NIH panel revives EMF-cancer link
Kaiser, J.
Science 281(5373): 21-22
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8075 PMID: 9679010 Document Number: 492759
An advisory panel to the National Institutes of Health recently concluded that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are a potential human carcinogen. The 30-member panel, which was convened to review a $66 million research program called RAPID created by Congress in 1992, followed International Agency for Research on Cancer criteria. These criteria, which are more lenient than the standards used by most U.S. bodies, allow a substance to be labeled a carcinogen based solely on an association in a population, even in the absence of evidence linking a substance to tumors in lab animals. Experts stress that any cancer risk from EMFs is small.