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For Your Safety 113
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 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:
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Support needed research into possible biological effects of RF of the type
emitted by tablets;
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Design tablets in a way that minimizes any RF exposure to the user that is not
necessary for device function; and
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Cooperate in providing users of tablets with the best possible information on
possible effects of tablet use on human health.