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Safety
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American Academy of
Audiology
11730 Plaza American Drive,
Suite 300
Reston, VA 20190
Voice: (800) 222-2336
Email: info@audiology.org
Internet: www.audiology.org
National Institute on Deafness
and Other Communication
Disorders
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive, MSC 2320
Bethesda, MD USA 20892-2320
Voice: (301) 496-7243
Email: [email protected]
Internet: http://www.nidcd.nih.
gov/health/hearing
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and
Health
Hubert H. Humphrey Bldg.
200 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20201
Voice: 1-800-35-NIOSH
(1-800-356-4674)
Internet:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/
noise/default.html
FDA Consumer Update
The U.S. Food and
Drug Administration’s
Center for Devices
and Radiological Health
Consumer Update on Mobile
Phones:
1. Do wireless phones pose a
health hazard?
The available scientific evidence
does not show that any health
problems are associated with
using wireless phones. There is
no proof, however, that wireless
phones are absolutely safe.
Wireless phones emit low levels
of Radio Frequency (RF) energy
in the microwave range while
being used. They also emit very
low levels of RF when in standby
mode. Whereas high levels of
RF can produce health effects
(by heating tissue), exposure
to low level RF that does not
produce heating effects causes
no known adverse health effects.
Many studies of low level RF
exposures have not found any
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