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Safety Guidelines

	here to handheld wireless phones
	with built-in antennas, often
	called ‘cell’, ‘mobile’, or ‘PCS’
	phones. These types of wireless
	phones can expose the user to
	measurable radiofrequency
	energy (RF) because of the short
	distance between the phone and
	the user’s head. These RF
Safety	exposures are limited by FCC
	safety guidelines that were
	developed with the advice of the
	FDA and other federal health and
Guidelines	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,
76	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