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Safety Guidelines 174

10. What about children using wireless phones?

The scientific evidence does not show a danger to users of wireless phones,

including children and teenagers. If you want to take steps to lower exposure to

radiofrequency energy (RF), the measures described above would apply to children

and teenagers using wireless phones. Reducing the time of wireless phone use

and increasing the distance between the user and the RF source will reduce RF

exposure. Some groups sponsored by other national governments have advised

that children be discouraged from using wireless phones at all. For example,

the government in the United Kingdom distributed leaflets containing such a

recommendation in December 2000. They noted that no evidence exists that using

a wireless phone causes brain tumors or other ill effects. Their recommendation to

limitwirelessphoneusebychildrenwasstrictlyprecautionary;

itwasnotbasedonscientificevidencethatanyhealthhazardexists.

11. What about wireless phone interference with medical

equipment?

Radiofrequency energy (RF) from wireless phones can interact with some

electronic devices. For this reason, the FDA helped develop a detailed test

methodtomeasureelectromagneticinterference(EMI)ofimplantedcardiac

pacemakers and defibrillators from wireless telephones. This test method is now

part of a standard sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Medical

instrumentation (AAMI). The final draft, a joint effort by the FDA, medical device

manufacturers, and many other groups, was completed in late 2000. This standard

will allow manufacturers to ensure that cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators are

safefromwirelessphoneEMI.TheFDAhastestedhearingaidsforinterference

from handheld wireless phones and helped develop a voluntary standard sponsored

bytheInstituteofElectricalandElectronicEngineers(IEEE).Thisstandardspecifies

test methods and performance requirements for hearing aids and wireless phones

so that no interference occurs when a person uses a ‘compatible’ phone and a

‘compatible’hearingaidatthesametime.ThisstandardwasapprovedbytheIEEE

in 2000. The FDA continues to monitor the use of wireless phones for possible

interactions with other medical devices. Should harmful interference be found to

occur, the FDA will conduct testing to assess the interference and work to resolve

the problem.

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