Fda Consumer Update - Ericsson A2218Z User Manual

• Keep away from children and do not allow the battery to be placed
in their mouth. Battery electrolytes may be toxic if swallowed.
Avoid battery electrolyte contact with your skin and eyes.
• Do Not use a damaged battery or charger.
• Turn off your phone before removing the battery.
• Do Not expose the battery to water or other liquids.
• Avoid dropping the battery while removing it from the phone.
• Avoid puncturing or crushing the battery.
• Only use the battery for its intended purpose.

FDA Consumer Update

FDA has been receiving inquiries about the safety of mobile phones,
including cellular phones and PCS phones.
The following summarizes what is known--and what remains
unknown--about whether these products can pose a hazard to health,
and what can be done to minimize any potential risk. This informa-
tion may be used to respond to questions.
Why the concern?
Mobile phones emit low levels of radiofrequency energy (i.e., radiof-
requency radiation) in the microwave range while being used. They
also emit very low levels of radiofrequency energy (RF), considered
non-significant, when in the stand-by mode. It is well known that
high levels of RF can produce biological damage through heating
effects (this is how your microwave oven is able to cook food). How-
ever, it is not known whether, to what extent, or through what mech-
anism, lower levels of RF might cause adverse health effects as well.
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Although some research has been done to address these questions, no
clear picture of the biological effects of this type of radiation has
emerged to date. Thus, the available science does not allow us to
conclude that mobile phones are absolutely safe, or that they are
unsafe. However, the available scientific evidence does not demon-
strate any adverse health effects associated with the use of mobile
phones.
What kinds of phones are in question?
Questions have been raised about hand-held mobile phones, the
kind that have a built-in antenna that is positioned close to the user's
head during normal telephone conversation. These types of mobile
phones are of concern because of the short distance between the
phone's antenna--the primary source of the RF--and the person's
head. The exposure to RF from mobile phones in which the antenna
is located at greater distances from the user (on the outside of a car,
for example) is drastically lower than that from hand-held phones,
because a person's RF exposure decreases rapidly with distance from
the source. The safety of so-called "cordless phones," which have a
base unit connected to the telephone wiring in a house and which
operate at far lower power levels and frequencies, has not been ques-
tioned.
How much evidence is there that hand-held mobile
phones might be harmful?
Briefly, there is not enough evidence to know for sure, either way;
however, research efforts are on-going. The existing scientific evi-
dence is conflicting and many of the studies that have been done to
date have suffered from flaws in their research methods. Animal
experiments investigating the effects of RF exposures characteristic
of mobile phones have yielded conflicting results. A few animal stud-
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