What is 'background EMF'?

What is 'background EMF'?

Gary Ginsberg (Toxicologist) gives expert video advice on: What does 'EMF' mean?; What are the hazards associated with exposure to EMF?; Should I have my house tested for EMF? and more...

Background, in regards to EMF, means that there are other sources of these kinds of magnetic fields so there are some around the home, our average hair dryer, your average alarm clock, but also there are distribution lines that bring electricity from the street into your home. So there's wires coming into your home from the main wires out on the street even those have a little bit of a magnetic field associated with them. So there is a background level of exposure that we all have and then there's the elevated levels of exposure that you get. For example, when you go into the supermarket and that bank of coolers where the ice cream is stored and the frozen dinners that has very high EMF levels you don't spend a lot of time there your kids aren't spending a lot of time there. When you get on an Amtrak train, there's high levels of EMF associated with riding in those cars but again you're not spending 24 hours a day associated with that environment. However around a home living near high voltage power lines there's enough of a statistical link to make one have pause about having children's play scape for example right near these high voltage distribution lines.