User Guide

Health and Safety
142 Health and Safety
per day, every day, for over 10 years) the study suggested a slight increase in
brain cancer. However, the authors determined that biases and errors prevented
any conclusions being drawn from this data. Additional information about
Interphone can be found at
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr
Interphone is the largest cell phone study to date, but it did not answer all
questions about cell phone safety. Additional research is being conducted
around the world, and the FDA continues to monitor developments in this eld.
International Cohort Study on Mobile Phone Users (COSMOS)
The COSMOS study aims to conduct long-term health monitoring of a large
group of people to determine if there are any health issues linked to long term
exposure to radio frequency energy from cell phone use. The COSMOS study
will follow approximately 300,000 adult cell phone users in Europe for 20 to 30
years. Additional information about the COSMOS study can be found at
http://www.ukcosmos.org/index.html.