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When you use the phone in public
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Do not turn your phone on or off when
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FDA Consumer Update
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Centre for Devices and Radiological Health
Consumer Update on Mobile Phones.
1. Do wireless phones pose a health
hazard?
The available scientific evidence does
not show that any health problems are
associated with using wireless phones.
There is no proof, however, that wireless
phones are absolutely safe. Wireless
phones emit low levels of radiofrequency
energy (RF) in the microwave range
while being used. They also emit very
low levels of RF when in the standby
mode. Whereas high levels of RF can
produce health effects (by heating tissue),
exposure to low level RF that does not
produce 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 wireless phones?
Under the law, the FDA does not review
the safety of radiationemitting consumer
products such as wireless phones before
they can be sold, as it does with new
drugs or medical devices. However,
the agency has authority to take action
if wireless phones are shown to emit
radiofrequency energy (RF) at a level that
is hazardous to the user. In such a case,
the FDA could require the manufacturers
of wireless phones to notify users of the
health hazard and to repair, replace, or
recall the phones so that the hazard no
longer exists.
Although the existing scientific data do
not justify FDA regulatory actions, the FDA
has urged the wireless phone industry
to take a number of steps, including the
following: