Today the WHO considers that the increase in electromagnetic pollution at home and in the workplace is a factor that is increasing the general level of stress for the population.

The International Agency Research in Cancer (IARC) has classified ELF (Extremely Low Frequencies from 0 to 3000 Hertz) as a “carcinogenic factor, with limited or possible evidence”.

 

The population is continuously submerged in the ever-expanding fields of technological origin. Man is affected by these fields, as are other living organisms. These assumptions have been confirmed by a huge amount of scientific evidence (Bersani, 1999).

 

However, at the same time, many authors have noted that the physical origins of this phenomenon are not yet clear, with biological phenomena often seeming to be paradoxical. This enables certain people to speculate on the safety aspects of EM radiation in directions that are not always compatible with Science. In particular, the manufacturers of everyday electrical appliances, such as mobile telephones, computers and televisions continue to confirm that their products are risk-free, based on the fact that the radiation emitted by their products is not intense enough to provoke the deleterious heating of biological tissues.

 

Simultaneously, however, a great number of experiments demonstrate that weak and hyperweak EM fields may have an impact on living tissues and even on whole organisms and that the effects of these fields on the living body are characterised by “windows” for biological responses.

Such observations contradict the paradigm on which existing safety standards are based, which is that EM fields can only induce biological effects if they cause a heating of tissues or - for extremely low frequencies (ELF) - if their intensity exceeds fixed limits.