LG GB125 Guide D'utilisation page 33

Safety Guidelines (Continued)
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 radiofrequency
energy (RF) 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.
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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 radiofrequency 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
predisposed to develop cancer in the
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 the results of such
studies mean for human health.