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products, you can use measures like those described above to reduce
your RF exposure from wireless device use.
10.
What about children using wireless devices?
The scientific evidence does not show a danger to users of wireless
devices, including children and teenagers. If you want to take steps to
lower exposure to radiofrequency energy (RF), the measures described
above would apply to children and teenagers using wireless devices.
Reducing the time of wireless device use and increasing the distance
between the user and the RF source will reduce RF exposure.
Some groups sponsored by other national governments have advised that
children be discouraged from using wireless devices at all. For example,
the government in the United Kingdom distributed leaflets containing
such a recommendation in December 2000. They noted that no evidence
exists that using a wireless device causes brain tumors or other ill effects.
Their recommendation to limit wireless device use by children was
strictly precautionary; it was not based on scientific evidence that any
health hazard exists.
11.
What about portable wireless device interference with medical equipment?
Radiofrequency energy (RF) from wireless devices can interact with
some electronic devices. For this reason, FDA helped develop a detailed
test method to measure electromagnetic interference (EMI) of implanted
cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators from wireless devices. This test
method is now part of a standard sponsored by the Association for the
Advancement of Medical instrumentation (AAMI). The final draft, a
joint effort by FDA, medical device manufacturers, and many other
groups, was completed in late 2000. This standard will allow
manufacturers to ensure that cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators are
safe from wireless device EMI.
FDA has tested hearing aids for interference from handheld wireless
devices and helped develop a voluntary standard sponsored by the
