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Section 4: Safety Guidelines and Warranty Information

4A: Safety 121

avoiding even potential risks, you can take a few simple steps to

minimize your exposure to radio frequency energy (RF). Since time is a

key factor in how much exposure a person receives, reducing the amount

of time spent using a wireless phone will reduce RF exposure.

If you must conduct extended conversations by wireless phone every day,

you could place more distance between your body and the source of the

RF, since the exposure level drops off dramatically with distance. For

example, you could use a headset and carry the wireless phone away

from your body or use a wireless phone connected to a remote antenna

Again, the scientific data do not demonstrate that wireless phones are

harmful. But if you are concerned about the RF exposure from these

products, you can use measures like those described above to reduce your

RF exposure from wireless phone use.

23. What about children using wireless phones?

The scientific evidence does not show a danger to users of wireless

phones, including children and teenagers. If you want to take steps to

lower exposure to radio frequency energy (RF), the measures described

above would apply to children and teenagers using wireless phones.

Reducing the time of wireless phone use and increasing the distance

between the user and the RF source will reduce RF exposure.

Some groups sponsored by other national governments have advised that

children be discouraged from using wireless phones at all. For example,

the government in the United Kingdom distributed leaflets containing

such a recommendation in December 2000. They noted that no evidence

exists that using a wireless phone causes brain tumors or other ill effects.

Their recommendation to limit wireless phone use by children was

strictly precautionary; it was not based on scientific evidence that any

health hazard exists.

24. What about wireless phone interference with medical

equipment?

Radio frequency energy (RF) from wireless phones can interact with

some electronic devices. For this reason, FDA helped develop a detailed

test method to measure electromagnetic interference (EMI) of implanted

cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators from wireless telephones. This test

method is now part of a standard sponsored by the Association for the

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