Health Council recommends limiting exposure to electromagnetic fields
The European Union's Health Council, meeting in Luxembourg on 8 June 1999, adopted a recommendation setting out basic restrictions and reference values for public exposure to electromagnetic fields. The recommendation draws on work done by the International Commission on non-ionising radiation protection. It is also partly a response to the risks imposed by the increasingly wide usage of appliances which have electromagnetic fields. At the same meeting of the Health Council, Ministers also stressed that the problem of antibiotic resistance and its various causes need to be combated with a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach. The Council suggested that the Member States and the European Commission collaborate to promote actively international organisations such as the World Health Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and the International Office of Epizootics in their actions to control and prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance.