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The European Union has postponed a ban on magnetic fields that would have unintentionally banned Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners used to diagnose some cancers, spinal and joint conditions, BBC News reports.
Eurocrats rushed to take decisive action, temporarily suspending the controversial Physical Agents Directive a mere 29 months after notification by doctors and MRI manufacturers.
As always, proposals to leave a European market to the Invisible Hand were scuppered by suspicions that some kind of magnetic field may be involved.
Michael Clark from the EU Health Protection Agency conceded to the BBC: “The medical professionals are right about the fact that there is a lack of evidence for deleterious effects.”
“But the Agency takes the broader perspective that there is a lack of evidence of lack of lack of deleterious effects,” he advised the Daily Grind, “except for the millions of people who had MRIs over the last three decades.”
The regulations will also ban horseshoes and the Earth within EU boundaries.
