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FDA Consumer Update
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 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 Radio Frequency (RF) energy
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 repro-
ducing those studies, or in determining the reasons for inconsis-
tent 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 radiation-
emitting 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 Radio Frequency 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 regulato-
ry actions, the FDA has urged the wireless phone industry to
take a number of steps, including the following:
G Support needed research into possible biological effects of
RF of the type emitted by wireless phones;
G Design wireless phones in a way that minimizes any RF expo-
sure to the user that is not necessary for device function; and
G Cooperate in providing users of wireless phones with the
best possible information on possible effects of wireless
phone use on human health.
The FDA belongs to an interagency working group of the federal
agencies that have responsibility for different aspects of RF
safety to ensure coordinated efforts at the federal level. The fol-
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