SURVEY OF EMF EMITTED BY LAB EQUIPMENTS IN PHARMACY LABS OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY IN BANGLADESH

Munima Haque, Md. Quamruzzaman

Abstract: The aim of this survey is to investigate whether the Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) emitted by various lab equipments affects t he students. There is a standard threshold value recommended by WHO for both electric and magnetic fields. Electro -Magnetic Fields commonly known as Non Ionizing Radiation is emitted from high power transmission lines, computer monitor/video display unit, radio waves of different frequencies (extremely low frequency to microwaves), telecommunication, satellite, radar etc. which causes health hazards to living system and environment. The WHO/ International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC) has classified radio frequency electromagnetic field as possibly carcinogenic to humans. There has been no such study performed in Bangladesh. The data were collected from various labs of department of pharmacy at Southeast University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. These labs are Pharmaceutical, Cosmetology and Biopharmaceutical Lab, Pharmacology Lab, Organic Pharmacy and Pharmacognosy Lab, Inorganic Pharmacy Lab and Microbiology Research Lab . Both threshold values of Electric and Magnetic fields were measured for various electronic equipments. Also the maximum value of the magnetic field results showed that in many cases the magnetic field radiated from the different sources are greater than the threshold limit which are the main point of our findings. As a result of the long time efforts of world scientist community WHO formed ICNIRP in 1969.

Keywords: EMF, NIR, DNA, EMC, AML and ICNIRP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0409002