Critical analysis of Russian and foreign hygienic regulations of electromagnetic fields (EMF) created by modern wireless communication and communication systems

Abstract

The authors present a critical analysis of domestic SanPiNs, international recommendations (ICNIRP 2020, EU Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC, EU Directive 2013/35/EC, IEEE Std C95.1-2019) and national standards of the USA, England, Germany, France, China, Italy and Switzerland establishing hygienic regulations for radio frequency band EMF RF created by modern wireless communication and communications systems. It is shown that the RF EMF remote controls in the workplace and for the population, installed in the Russian Federation, are generally the most stringent compared to foreign recommendations, due to different methodological approaches to the hygienic rationing of the factor. In the Russian Federation, hygienic standards of EMF are developed on the basis of comprehensive hygienic, clinical-physiological, epidemiological and chronic experimental studies of bioeffects of non-thermal levels. Most foreign countries use international recommendations as national EMF standards, the basis for determining the threshold level of EMF is the thermal effect. In order to solve the issues of harmonization of hygienic standards of RF EMF, it is necessary to conduct in-depth scientific research to study the features of their biological action and impact on human health. It should be taken into account that the EMFs created by modern wireless communication systems, according to their multi-frequency characteristics, modulation modes, intensity and time parameters, the nature and methods of exposure to workers and the population, differ significantly from EMFs for which there are already existing hygienic standards.
 Ethics. This study did not require the conclusion of the Ethics Committee.