About

IGNIR offers science-based advice and guidance on health and environmental effects of man-made non-ionising electromagnetic fields and radiation. Its aim is to protect people and the environment from detrimental exposure to man-made EMF pollution.

IGNIR has three functions:

1. To provide advice about appropriate safety levels for man-made electromagnetic exposure

2. To assess published guidelines on man-made electromagnetic exposure and make its own recommendations as to which are appropriate

3. Provide practical and reliable assessment guidelines for surveyors and building biologists.

IGNIR has developed a set of Guidelines for electromagnetic exposure based on the peer-reviewed EUROPAEM EMF Guidelines 2016.

It has three guideline groupings:

Day (D) / Night (N) / Sensitive (S)

It covers three frequency ranges:

Extremely Low Frequency (ELF)

Very Low Frequency (VLF)

Radiofrequency (RF)

Electromagnetic (EM) hygiene and safety involves minimising exposure levels that can be toxic to the environment and human health. The guidelines set forth by EUORPAEM (European Academy on Environmental Medicine) were published under open access by the international journal Reviews on Environmental Health (see Resources). Although at present there are no assured safe levels of man-made EM exposure, and studies continue to show harm to living systems at very small exposure values, IGNIR’s guidance aims to help achieve substantial reduction in EM exposure.

IGNIR’s Guidelines are aimed to also help protect sensitive groups such as children, the elderly, fetuses, pregnant women, those with co-morbidity, body metal work and people with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS).

Steering Committee

At the Foundation of IGNIR in 2017 at Oxford, UK, the original multi-disciplinary Steering Committee was composed of medical doctors, scientists and people representing vulnerable groups:

• Michael Bevington, MA (Oxon), MEd, founder of IGNIR; Trustee (chair) of Electrosensitivity UK (ES-UK).

• Dr. Andrew Tresidder, MBBS, MRCGP (1989, Cert Med Ed, co-founder and Chair (2017-2019) of IGNIR, former GP Health Practitioner and Appraiser, Health Educator on Health to Health Professionals; former Trustee of ES-UK.

• Dr. Elizabeth Evans, MA(Cantab), MBBS(Lond), DRCOG, retired doctor; member of PHIRE; Medical Advisor of SSITA; member of British Society for Ecological Medicine (BSEM); co-founder of Stop Smart Meters UK.

• Debra Fry, mother of Jenny Fry (3/10/1999 – 11/06/2015); Jenny Fry Memorial Lectures.

• Diana Hanson, cofounder and Coordinator, Safe Schools IT Alliance (SSITA).

• Angela Helm, member of SSITA.

• Guy Hudson, MInstP, qualified physicist, Electro-pollution Surveyor, CEO of Beneficial Environments.

• Dr. Erica Mallery-Blythe, founder of Physicians’ Health Initiative for Radiation and Environment (PHIRE); Trustee of Radiation Research Trust; Medical Advisor to Oceania Radiofrequency Advisory Association; Medical Advisor to ES-UK.

• Mike Mitcham, co-founder of SSM; Get Wired Lectures; member of SSITA and PHIRE.

• Brian Stein CBE, Chair of Radiation Research Trust; Trustee of ES UK.

• Others involved: L. Lloyd Morgan (1941-2024), former Director of the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States

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