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Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor | June 16, 2011
The European Parliament and Council will meet later this year to act on the proposal, the Alliance said.
Few short-term adverse effects
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The directive is not aimed at long-term adverse effects from EMF exposure, as the EC said there was no conclusive scientific evidence linking EMF to, say, cancer.
Instead, the directive seeks to protect workers from known short-term adverse effects in the body.
In a February document, the Alliance explained that the only such effect reported with MRI is peripheral nerve stimulation, when sensory nerves are stimulated by electrical currents induced by time-varying magnetic fields. This can result in tingling or even extreme pain. However, the Alliance said that workers are already protected by existing regulation of equipment. Also, PNS is extremely rare. In the United Kingdom, for instance, there have only been two reported cases over the past decade, for an incidence of one out of three million scans, the Alliance said.
"MRI has been used for over 25 years, imaging up to 500 million patients without evidence of harm to workers due to exposure to electromagnetic fields," the group said in a position paper.
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