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Safety

phones can expose the user to measurable Radio Frequency (RF) energy 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
Safety	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 Radio Frequency (RF) energy 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.

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