LG Electronics 150 manual Document, Update?, FDA and other federal health and safety

Safety

	The FCC also regulates the base stations that the
	wireless phone networks rely upon. While these
	base stations operate at higher power than do the
	wireless phones themselves, the RF exposures that
	people get from these base stations are typically
	thousands of times lower than those they can get
	from wireless phones. Base stations are thus not the
	subject of the safety questions discussed in this
	document.
	3. What kinds of phones are the subject of this
	update?
	The term “wireless phone” refers here to handheld
	wireless phones with built-in antennas, often called
S a f	“cell”, “mobile”, or “PCS” phones. These types of
	wireless phones can expose the user to measurable
e t y	radiofrequency energy (RF) because of the short
	distance between the phone and the user’s head.
	These RF exposures are limited by FCC safety
	guidelines that were developed with the advice of
	the FDA and other federal health and safety
	agencies. When the phone is located at greater
	distances from the user, the exposure to RF is
	drastically lower because a person's RF exposure
	decreases rapidly with increasing distance from the

source. The so called “cordless phones,” which have a base unit connected to the telephone wiring in a house, typically operate at far lower power levels, and thus produce RF exposures far below the FCC safety limits.

4. What are the results of the research done already?

The research done thus far has produced conflicting results, and many studies have suffered from flaws in their research methods. Animal experiments investigating the effects of radiofrequency energy (RF) exposures characteristic of wireless phones have yielded conflicting results that often cannot be repeated in other laboratories. A few animal studies, however, have suggested that low levels of RF could accelerate the development of cancer in laboratory animals. However, many of the studies that showed increased tumor development used animals that had been genetically engineered or treated with cancer-causing chemicals so as to be pre-disposed to develop cancer in the absence of RF exposure. Other studies exposed the animals to RF for up to 22 hours per day. These conditions are not similar to the conditions under which people use wireless phones, so we don’t know with certainty what the results of

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