Safety
10. What about children using wireless phones?
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| wireless phones, including |
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| children and teenagers. If you |
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| want to take steps to lower |
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| exposure to Radio Frequency |
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| (RF) energy, the measures |
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| described above would apply to |
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| children and teenagers using |
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| wireless phones. Reducing the |
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| reduce RF exposure. |
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| Some groups sponsored by |
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| other national governments have |
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| advised that children be |
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| discouraged from using wireless |
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| phones at all. For example, the |
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| government in the United |
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| Kingdom distributed leaflets |
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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 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
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