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• National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Communications Commission
• Occupational Health and Safety Administration
• National Telecommunications and Information
Administration
The National Institutes of Health also participates
in this group.
In the absence of conclusive information about
any possible risk, what can concerned individuals
do?
If there is a risk from these products--and at this
point we do not know that there is--it is probably
very small. But if people are concerned about
avoiding even potential risks, there are simple
steps they can take to do so. For example, time is a
key factor in how much exposure a person
receives. Those persons who spend long periods of
time on their hand-held mobile phones could
consider holding lengthy conversations on
conventional phones and reserving the hand-held
models for shorter conversations or for situations
when other types of phones are not available.
People who must conduct extended conversations
in their cars every day could switch to a type of
mobile phone that places more distance between
their bodies and the source of the RF, since the
exposure level drops off dramatically with
distance. For example, they could switch to:
• a mobile phone in which the antenna is located
outside the vehicle,
• a hand-held phone with a built-in antenna
connected to a different antenna mounted on the
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