LG Electronics 501C manual What about wireless phone, Interference with medical, Equipment?

Safety Guidelines

	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
	11. What about wireless phone
	based on scientific evidence that
	interference with medical
	any health hazard exists.
Safety	equipment?
	Radio frequency energy (RF)
Guidelines	from wireless phones can interact
	with some electronic devices. For
	this reason, the 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
82	sponsored by the Association for
	the Advancement of Medical
	instrumentation (AAMI). The
	final draft, a joint effort by the

FDA, medical device manufacturers, and many other groups, was completed in late 2000. This standard will allow manufacturers to ensure that cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators are safe from wireless phone EMI. The FDA has tested hearing aids for interference from handheld wireless phones and helped develop a voluntary standard sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). This standard specifies test methods and performance requirements for hearing aids and wireless phones so that no interference occurs when a person uses a ‘compatible’ phone and a ‘compatible’ hearing aid at the same time. This standard was approved by the IEEE in 2000. The FDA continues to monitor the use of wireless phones for