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Safety Guidelines
levels,andthusproduceRFexposuresfar
belowtheFCCsafetylimits.
4. What are the results of the research
done already?
Theresearchdonethusfarhasproduced
conflictingresults,andmanystudies
havesufferedfromflawsintheirresearch
methods.Animalexperimentsinvestigating
theeffectsofradiofrequencyenergy(RF)
exposurescharacteristicofwirelessphones
haveyieldedconflictingresultsthatoften
cannotberepeatedinotherlaboratories.A
fewanimalstudies,however,havesuggested
thatlowlevelsofRFcouldacceleratethe
developmentofcancerinlaboratoryanimals.
However,manyofthestudiesthatshowed
increasedtumordevelopmentusedanimals
thathadbeengeneticallyengineeredor
treatedwithcancercausingchemicalsso
astobepredisposedtodevelopcancer
intheabsenceofRFexposure.Other
studiesexposedtheanimalstoRFforup
to22hoursperday.Theseconditionsare
notsimilartotheconditionsunderwhich
peopleusewirelessphones,sowedon’t
knowwithcertaintywhattheresultsofsuch
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