LG C410 - Manual (Page 114)

Safety Guidelines
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The FDA shares regulatory responsibilities
for wireless phones with the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC). All
phones that are sold in the United States
must comply with FCC safety guidelines that
limit RF exposure. The FCC relies on the FDA
and other health agencies for safety questions
about wireless phones.
The FCC also regulates the base stations that
the wireless phone networks rely upon. While
these base stations operate at higher power
than do the wireless phones themselves,
the RF exposures that people get from these
base stations are typically thousands of times
lower than those they can get from wireless
phones. Base stations are thus not the subject
of the safety questions discussed in this
document.
3. What kinds of phones are the subject
of this update?
The term “wireless phone” refers here to
handheld wireless phones with built-in
antennas, often called “cell”, “mobile”,
or “PCS” phones. These types of wireless
phones can expose the user to measurable
Radio Frequency (RF) energy because of the
short distance between the phone and the
user’s head.
These RF exposures are limited by FCC safety
guidelines that were developed with the
advice of the FDA and other federal health
and safety agencies. When the phone is
located at greater distances from the user, the
exposure to RF is drastically lower because
a person's RF exposure decreases rapidly
with increasing distance from the source. The
so-called “cordless phones,” which have a
base unit connected to the telephone wiring
in a house, typically operate at far lower
power levels, and thus produce RF exposures
far below the FCC safety limits.
4. What are the results of the research
done already?
The research done thus far has produced
conflicting results, and many studies have
suffered from flaws in their research methods.
Animal experiments investigating the effects
of Radio Frequency (RF) energy exposures
characteristic of wireless phones have yielded
conflicting results that often cannot be
repeated in other laboratories. A few animal
studies, however, have suggested that low
levels of RF could accelerate the development
of cancer in laboratory animals. However,