Radiofrequency Radiation Standards

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has sponsored research and personnel safety standards development for exposure to Radiofrequency Radiation (RFR) for over twenty years. The Aerospace Medical Panel of the Advisory Group For Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) sponsored Lecture Series No. 78 Radiation Hazards,! in 1975, in the Netherlands, Germany, and Norway, on the subject of Radiation Hazards to provide a review and critical analysis of the available information and concepts. In the same year, Research Study Group 2 on Protection of Personnel Against Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation (Panel VIIl of AC/243 Defence Research Group, NATO) proposed a revision to Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 2345. The intent of the proposal was to revise the ST ANAG to incorporate frequency-dependent-RFR safety guidelines. These changes are documented in the NATO STANAG 2345 (MED), Control and Recording of Personnel Exposure to Radiofrequency Radiation,2 promulgated in 1979. Research Study Group 2 (RSG2) of NATO Defense Research Group Panel VIII (AC1243) was organized, in 1981, to study and contribute technical information concerning the protection of military personnel from the effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation. A workshop at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, U. K. was held to develop and/or compile sufficient knowledge on the long-term effects of pulsed RFR to maintain safe procedures and to minimize unnecessary operational constraints.

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Standards and Guidelines: Present and Proposed: The Standardization Agreement on the Protection of NATO Personnel against Radiofrequency Radiation; M. Grandolfo. International Commission on Nonionizing Radiation Protection Progress towards Radiofrequency Field Standards; M.H. Repacholi. Considerations for NATO Standardization Agreement: New Technologies for Dosimetry: Slow Luminescence; J.L. Kiel, et al. Biological Effects of HighPeakPower Microwave Energy; E.C. Elson. Military Operations and RFR Standards: Navy Issues Surrounding Department of Defense Electromagnetic Radiation Safety Standards; J. de Lorge. An Overview of the Proposed Industrial Hygiene Technical Standard for Nonionizing Radiation and Fields for the U.S. Department of Energy; J.A. Leonowich. Evaluation of the Epidemiologic Database: Epidemiology and What It Can Tell Us; L. Kheifets. Evaluation of Reproductive Epidemiologic Studies; T.M. Schnorr, B.A. Grajewski. Epidemiology of Electromagnetic Feilds and Cancer; C. Poole. 10 additional articles. Index.