Basil Chatha

The Electricity bill is the cheap part. A Swiss research group tested 13 professional induction cooktops & found that most EXCEEDED even the already-high 1998 ICNIRP maximum exposure limits when a person stood close to the stove. For the worst-case compliant device: current density in tissue exceeded ICNIRP limits by up to 24 dB.. A FACTOR OF 16. The brain tissue of young children: overexposed by a factor of 2 The CNS of a fetus: can exceed general public limits entirely if the mother cooks at normal working distance. And this happened on devices that had PASSED the official safety test. Why? Because the IEC 62233 compliance standard, the test that certifies your stove as "SAFE", measures the AC magnetic field at 300mm (1 foot) from the cabinet edge. You don't cook from 1 foot away. Your abdomen is at 0mm. Your hands are at 50mm. Your child's head is at cooktop height. At 300mm: COMPLIANT At 0mm: 16x OVER THE LIMIT The test is designed to PASS not to protect. And that's before you consider that the ICNIRP limits themselves are already deeply inadequate. ICNIRP limits are set to prevent ACUTE effects.. enough induced current to directly stimulate a nerve. They don't account for chronic, non-thermal biological effects. Reba Goodman & Martin Blank showed magnetic field biological effects occur at 14 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE below the thermal threshold ICNIRP uses as its baseline. The WHO IARC classified ELF AC magnetic fields.. the exact type induction stoves emit at 20 kHz, as a Group 2B possible carcinogen in 2002. ICNIRP's response in 2010 was to RELAX the reference levels. So when the study says your stove exceeds limits by a factor of 16.. That's 16x over a number that's already orders of magnitude too permissive for chronic daily exposure. You're not cooking on a stove. You're standing in front of an industrial ELF AC magnetic field generator. EVERY SINGLE DAY. But sure. The electricity bill is the part to worry about.