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| wireless phone will reduce RF | |
| exposure. If you must conduct | |
| extended conversations by | |
| wireless phone every day, you | |
| could place more distance | |
| between your body and the | |
| source of the RF, since the | |
| exposure level drops off | |
| dramatically with distance. For | |
| example, you could use a headset | |
| and carry the wireless phone away | |
| from your body or use a wireless | |
| phone connected to a remote | |
| antenna. Again, the scientific data | |
| do not demonstrate that wireless | |
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| from wireless phone use. |
10.What about children using wireless phones?
The scientific evidence does not show a danger to users of wireless phones, including children and teenagers. If you want to take steps to lower exposure to radio frequency energy (RF), the measures described above would apply to children and teenagers using wireless phones. Reducing the time of wireless phone use and increasing the distance between the user and the RF source will reduce RF exposure. Some groups sponsored by 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
