LG Electronics MMBB0301001 manual What about wireless phone, Interference with medical, Equipment?

Safety

	other national governments have
	advised that children be
	discouraged from using wireless
	phones at all. For example, the
	government in the United
	Kingdom distributed leaflets
	containing such a
	recommendation in December
	2000. They noted that no
	evidence exists that using a
	wireless phone causes brain
	tumors or other ill effects. Their
	recommendation to limit wireless
Safety	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?
	Radio Frequency (RF) energy
	from wireless phones can interact
	with some electronic devices. For
	this reason, the FDA helped
	develop a detailed test method

to measure Electro Magnetic 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

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