# BioInitiative Report 2012 precautionary levels

> Advocacy-group review proposing precautionary RF and ELF targets far below regulatory limits; widely cited in campaigns and widely disputed by health authorities.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/standards/bioinitiative-2012
- Collection: Standards & frameworks
- Record id: `standards:bioinitiative-2012`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/standards/bioinitiative-2012

## Key values

- **Organization:** BioInitiative Working Group
- **Edition:** 2012
- **Jurisdiction:** international
- **Frequency range:** DC – 300 GHz
- **Status of values:** Precautionary: proposed by a professional or advocacy body, not adopted by any regulator

## Scope

Not a standards body and not adopted by any regulator. Listed here because it is frequently quoted as though it were a limit.

## Sources

- `bioinitiative-2012` BioInitiative Working Group (2012). *BioInitiative Report 2012 (updated) — conclusions and recommended precautionary levels*. https://bioinitiative.org/conclusions/ — ngo, link checked 2026-08-12
- `sbm-2024` Institut für Baubiologie + Nachhaltigkeit (IBN) (2024). *Building Biology Evaluation Guidelines for Sleeping Areas (SBM-2024)*. https://buildingbiology.com/site/downloads/SBM-2024_EVALUATION_GUIDELINES_EN.pdf — ngo, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

This record is reference data, not medical or legal advice. Regulatory limits, scientific guidelines and precautionary values are labelled separately and answer different questions.