December 19, 2016.
To put an end to the controversy that is swelling around the danger associated with the installation of Linky smart meters, ANSES has just issued a scientific opinion which qualifies as “unlikely” the idea that the magnetic field emitted by these meters represents a health hazard.
ANSES takes a stand in favor of the Linky meter
The crusade against Linky counters is not weakening in France, where many users refuse the installation, at home, of these devices which allow direct transmission of water, electricity or gas consumption to facilitate billing, as fair as possible, for subscribers, but who are notably accused of being harmful to health, in that they emit potentially carcinogenic waves. Faced with these consumer doubts, the health authorities are invited to take a stand and the National Agency for Health, Food, Environment and Occupational Safety (ANSES) has just done so, affirming that the health risks linked to smart meters were “unlikely”.
The ANSES report, commissioned by the Directorate General for Health (DGS), is relatively clear on the subject, since it states that ” the data available to date lead the Agency to conclude a low probability that exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by radioelectric communicating meters (gas and water) and others (electricity), in the current deployment configuration, will cause health effects short or long term “.
An electric field identical to that of a television
To reach this conclusion, the Agency declares that it has identified the data from measurement campaigns carried out to estimate the exposure linked to smart meters. ” In the case of the Linky electricity meter, the levels of exposure to the electromagnetic field produced by the meter itself, but also by the PLC communication which runs through the electric cables, are much lower than the regulatory exposure limit values Says the report.
Conclusion, that consumers be reassured, Linky meters give off exactly the same electric field as other devices they already have in their home for years, such as a television, a laptop charger or an induction hob.
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