Electromagnetic Fields and the Precautionary Principle

Electromagnetic Fields and the Precautionary Principle

While for substances that may be detrimental to health if incorporated through the skin, or by inhalation or ingestion precautionary procedures have been developed in the past decades that are applied in a transparent and standardised way by health authorities, public health agencies and international organisations in order to protect the public from a potential health hazard, no such procedure...

Health risk assessment of electromagnetic fields: a conflict between the precautionary principle and environmental medicine methodology.

The purpose of the precautionary principle is that legal requirements are to be made to safeguard against the possible health risks that have not yet been scientifically established. That a risk is not established cannot, therefore, be used as an excuse for not applying the principle. Yet, that rationale is exactly what is happening in the case of the possible health risks from exposure to elec...

Standing and the Precautionary Principle

Implementing the precautionary principle.

The precautionary principle can be found in international treaties that protect human health and the environment from a variety of pollutants and perturbations. One of the earliest forms of the precautionary principle was used in the 1980s in Europe to protect the North Sea. In 1992, the Rio Declaration specifically included the precautionary principle in calling on nations to protect the envir...

Expanding the precautionary principle.