ARPANSA published a commentary regarding systematic review on effects of RF exposure on cancer in laboratory animal studies
19 May 2025
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) published a commentary regarding a systematic review conducted as a part of a process on health risk assessment of radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields by the World Health Organization (WHO) .
The commentary, titled "Study on experimental animals and cancer provides no reason to change ARPANSA’s assessment on the safety of wireless technology", mentioned as follows:
“This review is a part of the WHO commissioned systematic review process, the overall aim of which is to assess the possible implications of RF-EMF exposure on human health. ARPANSA has therefore considered this review carefully and thoroughly when evaluating the scientific evidence regarding effects of RF-EMF exposures. In determining the impact of RF-EMF on human health the most significant evidence comes from studies on humans, not animals. This is because human observational studies are higher in the evidence hierarchy compared to animal studies as they provide more direct and relevant information about human health and disease. The WHO commissioned systematic reviews looking at observational studies in humans did not find an association between RF and any cancer (Karipidis et al 2024, Karipidis et al 2025).“
“In Australia, exposures to RF-EMF are covered by the Australian radiofrequency standard RPS-S1. This Australian standard was published in 2021, based on revised guidelines by ICNIRP (2020), which considered all of the relevant scientific evidence available at the time, including both the NTP and Falcioni studies. As the major conclusions of this review are primarily based on these two studies and there is no synthesis of all the available evidence, it is ARPANSA’s assessment that no new results are presented by the review and therefore no reasons for policy revisions. This systematic review on laboratory animals does not change the assessment of ARPANSA that there is no substantiated evidence of health effects from RF-EMF exposure below the ARPANSA safety limits.“
Related article:
"ICNIRP Note on Recent Animal Carcinogenesis Studies"
(posted on 5 Sep 2018)
https://www.jeic-emf.jp/english/academic/info/6272.html