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Safety Guidelines
here to hand-held wireless phons
with built-in antennas, often
called "cell", "mobile", or "PCS"
phones. These types of wireless
phones can expose the user to
measurable radiofrequency
energy(RF) because of the short
distance between the phone and
the user's head.
These RF exposures are limited
by Federal Communications
Commission safety guidelines
that were developed with the
advice of 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,
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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. 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-