Fda Consumer Update - LG G Pad 8.3 Quick Start Manual

For Your Safety
area where you would normally be advised to turn
off your vehicle engine.
For Vehicles Equipped with an Air Bag
An air bag inflates with great force. DO NOT place
objects, including either installed or portable
wireless equipment, in the area over the air bag
or in the air bag deployment area. If in-vehicle
wireless equipment is improperly installed and the
air bag inflates, serious injury could result.

FDA Consumer Update

The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration's Center for Devices
and Radiological Health Consumer
Update on Mobile Tablets:
1. Do tablets pose a health hazard?
The available scientific evidence does not show
that any health problems are associated with using
tablets.
There is no proof, however, that tablets are
absolutely safe. Tablets emit low levels of Radio
Frequency (RF) energy in the microwave range
while being used. They also emit very low levels
of RF when in idle mode. Whereas high levels of
RF can produce health effects (by heating tissue),
exposure to low level RF that does not produce
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heating effects causes no known adverse health
effects. Many studies of low level RF exposures
have not found any biological effects. Some
studies have suggested that some biological
effects may occur, but such findings have not been
confirmed by additional research. In some cases,
other researchers have had difficulty in reproducing
those studies, or in determining the reasons for
inconsistent results.
2. What is the FDA's role concerning the
safety of tablets?
Under the law, the FDA does not review the safety
of radiation-emitting consumer products such as
tablets before they can be sold, as it does with new
drugs or medical devices. However, the agency
has authority to take action if tablets are shown to
emit Radio Frequency (RF) energy at a level that
is hazardous to the user. In such a case, the FDA
could require the manufacturers of tablets to notify
users of the health hazard and to repair, replace,
or recall the tablets so that the hazard no longer
exists.
Although the existing scientific data does not
justify FDA regulatory actions, the FDA has urged
the tablet industry to take a number of steps,
including the following:
• Support needed research into possible biological