Effects of Household Appliances Magnetic leakage on Health

many organizations and scholars have rang the bell of warning for the effects of the electromagnetic fields that might be of a hazard on human wellbeing. Based on these concerns international organizations concerned with human health like the World health organization (WHO), the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) as well as many other international bodies set standards to the limit of exposer to these fields generated by electrical and communication equipment. This paper presents the results of field measurements of the magnetic field leakage intensity that have been done on some of the electric house hold appliances that in daily use and associate the measured results with the internationally set limits. The obtained results from all the field tests in general were well below the standard set limits, where the range of the magnetic leakage was between 0.02 to 17.45 microtesla (µT).