Food Consumption, Water Intake and Growth Data on Rats Chronically Ewosed to a High-Intensity 60-Hz Field

Abstract

Chronic exposure of rats, from conception to approximately 120 days of age, to an unperturbed, vertical, 60–Hz, 80 kV/m electric field was carried out with more than 350 male subjects. Weekly body weights, food consumption, and water intake patterns were analyzed. There were no statistically significant differences between the field-exposed and sham-exposed animals in food and water intake. However, there were statistically significant growth pattern differences from four to eight weeks of age, suggestive of a slight initial developmental delay in growth due to chronic exposure to the high-intensity electric field.