LG GS170 User Manual page 40

For Your Safety
This standard will allow
manufacturers to ensure
that cardiac pacemakers
and defi brillators 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
specifi es test methods
and performance
requirements for hearing
aids and wireless phones
so that no interference
occurs when a person
uses a "compatible"
phone and a "compat-
ible" hearing aid at
the same time. This
standard was approved
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by the IEEE in 2000.
The FDA continues to
monitor the use of wire-
less phones for possible
interactions with other
medical devices. Should
harmful interference be
found to occur, the FDA
will conduct testing to
assess the interference
and work to resolve the
problem.