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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.

11.What about wireless phone interference with medical equipment?

S afety	Radio frequency energy (RF)
	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
	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

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