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Table 9 Reference levels for the general public from [11].

From: Monitoring of people and workers exposure to the electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields in an Italian national cancer Institute

Council Recommendation of 12 July 1999 Reference levels for electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz, unperturbed rms values)

Frequency range

E-field strength (V/m)

H-field strenght (A/m)

B-field (μT)

Equivalent plane wave power density Seq (W/m2)

0–1 Hz

-

3,2 × 104

4 × 104

-

1–8 Hz

10 000

3,2 × 104/f2

4 × 104/f2

-

8–25 Hz

10 000

4 000/f

5000/f

-

0,025–0,8 Hz

250/f

4/f

5/f

-

0,8–3 kHz

250/f

5

6,25

-

3–150 kHz

87

5

6,25

-

0,15–1 MHz

87

0,73/f

0,92/f

-

1–10 MHz

87/f1/2

0,73/f

0,92/f

-

10–400 MHz

28

0,073

0,092

2

400–2 000 MHz

1,375 f1/2

0,0037 f1/2

0,0046 f1/2

f/200

2–300 GHz

61

0,16

0,20

10