Right to raise pylon concerns

I was delighted to read the letter by Dr Elizabeth Cullen, Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association in the Irish Medical News on January 27, 2014, outlining "The precautionary principle", with regard to the pylons.

Right to raise pylon concerns

She states that children are particularly vulnerable to health risks because their nervous system and other physiological systems are still developing and they have longer lifetime exposure.

It is of paramount importance that the risks are accurately known. Levels of exposure to ELP-EMF fields are not easily measurable. There are methodological difficulties in ascertaining the accrual exposure to these levels. Dr Cullen reports on findings from 12 research groups in seven countries, the EU REFLEX report, where mixed and intriguing patterns emerged. Findings emerged that Intermittent exposure to ELF-EMF at 50HZ had genotoxic effects (toxically affecting the DNA), on human fibroblasts, human melanocytes and some animal cells.

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