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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
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Subject: WAS ... EMF Radiation Kills !!!
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Date: 27 Jun 90 21:16:01 GMT
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In article <12967@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax (George Robbins) writes:
>Nonsense.  Most "commercial" grade equipment is made to better standards than
>consumer equipment.  Most of the VDT's in commercial use aren't fly by night,
>those are the ones bought for use with cheap clones for home use.  Most of
>these require UL or similar testing to allow unrestricted retail sale.

This is slightly misleading, and the way I said it first was worse.  If
you intend to sell in the home/consumer market, you MUST meet a different
max level of emissions than if you CLAIM that you intend to market in the
industrial/business/industry market.  However, after meet the whatever
intended class certification, you can actually sell to anyone however you want.
There is no budget for inforcement/records/etc of this.  The same is true of
testing.  While home TV's are randomly tested to see that they meet specs,
there is no budget to check VDT's or ANY industrial classed items.  As a matter
of fact, the certification has often been done on 'custom' prototypes.  There
have been several cases (NEC & Hyundai & others) that were tested by
independent labs for professional publications.  It was discovered that
EVERY unit ever manufactured (of that model) exceeded the levels it was
rated for, because the certification unit wasn't a production unit.
The government regulatory agencies would NEVER have known if the publishers
hadn't inquired into it and published.  I remember hyundai removed the
remaining stock from the US (and destroyed it I bet).  Neither ever contacted
me (I owned both units and sent in the reg, cards) like the publications
claimed they would.
None of this is to say that EMF kills.  Hiding behind government backed
emission levels of anything is a dangerous sport.  The politics involved in
this country are so great that I would set my personal levels to about 1/10
of the claimed save exposures of ANYthing just to be safe.
There are studies (BY reliable labs, etc...) that are STARTING to indicate that
EMF can or does have long term and genetic effects.  I suspect that in 20 years
we will know much more than we do now.  Further I suspect that in 100 years
they will laugh at us and our stupidity on hundreds of things like this.
That is assuming that we last as a race or planet long enough...
al