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.
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| These RF exposures are limited |
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| by FCC safety guidelines that |
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| were developed with the advice |
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| of the FDA and other federal |
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| health and safety agencies. When |
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| the phone is located at greater |
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| distances from the user, the |
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| exposure to RF is drastically |
S a fety | lower because a person's RF | |
exposure decreases rapidly with | ||
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| increasing distance from the |
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| source. The |
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| phones,” which have a base unit |
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| connected to the telephone |
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| wiring in a house, typically |
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| operate at far lower power levels, |
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| and thus produce RF exposures |
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| 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