339Nonionizing Radiation
include exposure limits that are very debatable. ICNIRP guidelines propose exposure limits for
EMFs in the frequency range up to 300 GHz based on short-term exposures and on thermal effects.
Still many specialists in Russia, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, China, Belgium, and
also Bulgaria working in the eld of developing exposure limits have criticized to the proposed
ICNIRP guidelines philosophy. This led to big differences in the exposure limits.
We mentioned in 2002
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several questions concerning the possibility of developing an interna-
tional framework for standard and policy in the eld of NIR protection. Some of them concern with
the standard harmonization and others with terminology, rationale f