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What kinds of phones are the subject of this
update?
The term “wireless phones” refers here to hand-held wireless
phones with built-in antennas, often called “cell,” “mobile,” or
“PCS”. These types of wireless phones can expose the user to
measurable radio frequency energy (RF) because of the short
distance between the phone and the user’s head. These RF
exposures are limited by Federal Communications Commission
safety guidelines that were developed with the advice of 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
phone wiring in a house, typically operate at far lower per
levels, and thus produce RF exposures far below the FCC safety
limits.
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 energy (RF) 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, many of
the studies that showed increased tumor development used
animals that had been genetically engineered or treated with
cancer-causing chemicals so as to be pre-disposed to develop
cancer in absence of RF exposure. Other studies exposed the
animals to RF for up to 22 hours per day. These conditions are
not similar to the conditions under which people use wireless
phones, so we don’t know with certainty what results of such
studies mean for human health.