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  "slug": "anses-2018-electromagnetic-hypersensitivity",
  "name": "ANSES 2018 — collective expert review of electromagnetic hypersensitivity",
  "summary": "France's health agency reviewed the literature plus hearings with clinicians, researchers and affected people: no solid experimental evidence of a causal link, and an explicit recommendation that the suffering be treated as real and clinically managed.",
  "status": "verified",
  "lastVerified": "2026-08-12",
  "data": {
    "authors": "Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES)",
    "year": 2018,
    "design": "systematic-review",
    "exposure": "Self-declared sensitivity to electromagnetic fields across sources, in France",
    "finding": "In the current state of knowledge there is no solid experimental evidence establishing a causal link between EMF exposure and the symptoms described by people declaring themselves EHS. ANSES simultaneously states that their suffering and pain correspond to a lived reality that leads them to adapt their daily lives, recommends appropriate clinical care and training for health professionals, and calls for further research whose experimental conditions reflect how affected people actually live.",
    "limitations": "An evidence review, not new experimental work; it inherits the limitations of the provocation literature it assesses. It makes no finding about any exposure threshold and does not support treating the precautionary EMF values published by clinical associations as health-based limits.",
    "weight": "contested",
    "url": "https://www.anses.fr/fr/system/files/AP2011SA0150Ra.pdf",
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      "organizations:anses",
      "studies:rubin-2010",
      "questions:what-should-i-do-if-i-think-im-electrosensitive"
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      "title": "Avis et rapport d'expertise collective — Hypersensibilité électromagnétique ou intolérance environnementale idiopathique attribuée aux champs électromagnétiques (mars 2018)",
      "publisher": "Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES), France",
      "url": "https://www.anses.fr/fr/system/files/AP2011SA0150Ra.pdf",
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      "title": "Hypersensibilité aux ondes électromagnétiques : amplifier l'effort de recherche et adapter la prise en charge des personnes concernées",
      "publisher": "ANSES, France",
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