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Safety Guidelines
Email: [email protected]
Internet: www.audiology.org
National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication
Disorders
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive, MSC 2320
Bethesda, MD USA 20892-2320
Voice: (301) 496-7243
Email: [email protected]
Internet: http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
health/hearing
National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health Hubert H. Humphrey Bldg.
200 Independence Ave., SW Washington,
DC 20201 Voice: 1-800-35-NIOSH (1-800-
356-4674)
Internet: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/
topics/noise/default.html
FDA Consumer Update
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Center 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 Home screen. 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.
