RF Radiation Guidelines

ALERT: Authors of the BioInitiative Report 2012 recommend a precautionary limit of 3.0 µW/m2, significantly below that of world governments and World Health Organization (WHO).    

Various radiofrequency (RF) radiation guideline recommendations (given as µW/m2*): 

10 000 000 µW/m2 – FCC (USA) OET-65, recommendation
9 000 000 µW/m2 – ICNIRP 1998; WHO, recommendation
100 000 µW/m2 – Russia and Italy, recommendation **
**3 µW/m2 – the Bioinitiative Report 2012, revised recommendation (Precautionary ceiling (top) level for sensitive populations, 2012-2013, may be revised at a later date) 6 µW/m2 is the BioInitiative 2012 suggested limit for general, healthy populations.
0.1 µW/m2 – contribution from the sun at daytime during big solar storms 

0.000 001 – 0.000 000 000 01 µW/m2 – this is the natural background during normal cosmic activities; proposed by Olle Johansson, Karolinska Institutet (1997), as a genuine hygienic safety value. Above this level we could say electrosmog pollution is present, unless in the midst of a large solar storm. 

The FCC limit is 3,333,333 times higher than the BioInitiative Limit of 3.0 μW/m2 , for sensitive populations that include children, the elderly, medically ill and disabled, and pregnant women 

*microwatts per meter squared 

**this converts to 0.0003 µW/cm2 or 0.003 mW/m2 for sensitive populations; and 0.0006 µW/cm2 or 0.006 mW/m2 for general populations, respectively. 

(for more info on recommended RF exposure limits  click here) 

Rf meter                   Measures in 

Cornet                        mW/m2 (milliwatts per meter squared) 

TenMars                     µW/m2  and µW/cm2 (microwatts per meter squared, microwatts per centimeter squared) 

HC-35                        µW/m2 (microwatts per meter squared)