User's Manual

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For Your Safety
should also read and follow your wireless phone manufacturer’s instructions for the safe operation
of your phone.
Do wireless phones pose any special risks to children?
The FDA/FCC website states that “the scientific evidence does not show a danger to users of
wireless communication devices, including children.” The FDA/FCC website further states that “some
groups sponsored by other national governments have advised that children be discouraged from
using wireless phones at all”. For example, the Stewart Report from the United Kingdom [“UK”]
made such a recommendation in December 2000. In this report a group of independent experts
noted that no evidence exists that using a cell phone causes brain tumors or other ill effects. [The
UK’s] recommendation to limit cell phone use by children was strictly precautionary; it was not based
on scientific evidence that any health hazard exists. A copy of the UK’s leaflet is available at http://
www.dh.gov.uk (search “mobile”), or you can write to: NRPB, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 ORQ, United
Kingdom. Copies of the UK’s annual reports on mobile phones and RF are available online at www.
iegmp.org.uk and http://www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/ (search “mobile”). Parents who wish to reduce
their children’s RF exposure may choose to restrict their children’s wireless phone use.
Where can I get further information about RF emissions?
For further information, see the following additional resources (websites current as of April 2005):
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA Consumer magazine
November-December 2000
Telephone: (888) INFO-FDA
http://www.fda.gov (Under “C” in the subject index, select Cell Phones > Research.)
U.S. Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554
Telephone: [phone]
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety
Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones
http://www.iegmp.org.uk