LG Chocolate User Manual page 86

Safety
measurable radiofrequency energy (RF)
because of the short distance between
the phone and the user's head. These RF
exposures are limited by FCC safety
guidelines that were developed with the
advice of the FDA and other federal
health and safety agencies. When the
phone is located at greater distances
from the user, the exposure to RF is
drastically lower because a person's RF
exposure decreases rapidly with
increasing distance from the source. The
so called "cordless phones," which have
a base unit connected to the telephone
wiring in a house, typically operate at far
lower power levels, and thus produce RF
exposures 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
radiofrequency energy (RF) exposures
characteristic of wireless phones have
yielded conflicting results that often
cannot be repeated in other laboratories.
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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
cancer-causing chemicals so as to be
pre-disposed to develop cancer in the
absence of RF exposure. Other studies
exposed the animals to RF for up to 22
hours per day. These conditions are not
similar to the conditions under which
people use wireless phones, so we don't
know with certainty what the results of
such studies mean for human health.
Three large epidemiology studies have
been published since December 2000.
Between them, the studies investigated
any possible association between the use
of wireless phones and primary brain
cancer, glioma, meningioma, or acoustic
neuroma, tumors of the brain or salivary
gland, leukemia, or other cancers. None
of the studies demonstrated the existence
of any harmful health effects from
wireless phone RF exposures. However,
none of the studies can answer questions
about long-term exposures, since the