Subject: Re EMF/female fertility (Maxey)(Philips).
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 154143 -0600
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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.......Response from EMF-L.......
NOT the "typical" environmental exposure!!........guru......
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Subject: Re: EMF/female fertility (Maxey).
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:09:29
From: Alasdair Philips
To: roy@emfguru.com
Roy, Ed & all,
This is a very odd paper. They used 1500 microtesla !!! (15,000 mG)
50 Hz and 33 Hz SQUARE wave ~ and didn't discuss the switching transients
that are likely to be significant for a square wave at that strength.
I suspect that it was someone's idea of a way of getting a PhD paper.
It doesn't seem to follow on from recent EMF papers at BEMS etc, but
has been thought up by non-EMF related researchers.
Mostly NO-ONE is exposed to such fields. I once measured a couple of
thousand microtesla right next to a 32 MegaWatt (?) generating set at
Sizewell B nuclear power station ~ and few people ever get so close
to such high power. I would say that 100 microtesla AC flux was above
the level 99.9% of the public ever experience.
Cheers
Alasdair
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Alasdair Philips, BSc(Eng), DAgE, MIAgE
Director, UK Powerwatch, (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
EMC Engineer and EMF-bioeffects researcher
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk
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At 10:48 31/10/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> ...........From EMF-L..........
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: female fertility
>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:58:55 -0600
>From: edmaxey@juno.com
>To: guru@emfguru.com
>
>Hi Roy,
>
>John Clark sent this to me. Thought you would find it of
>interest.
>
>Cordially,
>Ed
>
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003117005606413&rtmo=VPPGVx1x&atmo=FF
>FFFFFX&pg=/et/00/10/31/wova31.html
>
> The modern kitchen may make women
> less fertile
> By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
>
> University La
> Sapienza, Rome
>
> THE fertility of women may be affected by
> electromagnetic fields in the
> modern home, scientists claim in a study published
> today.
>
> Women are exposed to low frequency electromagnetic
> fields daily in the
> home or at work through power lines and the use of
> appliances such as
> refrigerators, washing machines and kettles. The
> egg-containing sacs (follicles)
> in the ovaries of mice exposed to realistic levels of
> extremely low frequency
> electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMF) fail to develop
> properly in many cases,
> Italian scientists report in the journal Human
> Reproduction.
>
> Exposure significantly reduced the development of the
> follicles' central cavity,
> a structure called the antrum, report Prof Rita Canipari
> and colleagues from
> the University of L'Aquilia and University La Sapienza
> in Rome. Dr Sandra
> Cecconi, from the University of L'Aquilia, said: "Our
> results raise concerns
> that ELF-EMF exposure might impair female reproductive
> potential."
>
> The team would like to see similar research on human
> ovarian follicles. The
> members admit that in humans this is currently very
> difficult, technically.
> However, studies in animals could be extended.
>
> Dr Cecconi said the team had no idea whether the same
> effect would be
> found in women, "but it would seem prudent to
> investigate. However, human
> infertility is very complex and many factors can combine
> to reduce fertility,
> and in every woman these factors are likely to be
> different."
>
>
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