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At the same time, FDA belongs to an
interagency working group of the
federal agencies that have responsi-
bility for different aspects of mobile
phone safety to ensure a coordinated
effort at the federal level. These agen-
cies are:
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Communications Commission
Occupational Health and Safety
Administration
National Telecommunications and
Information Administration
The National Institutes of Health also
participates in this group.
In the absence of conclusive informa-
tion about any possible risk, what can
concerned individuals do?
If there is a risk from these products – and
at this point we do not know that there is
– it is probably very small. But if people
are concerned about avoiding even po-
tential risks, there are simple steps they
can take to do so. For example, time is a
key factor in how much exposure a per-
son receives. Those persons who spend
long periods of time on their hand-held
mobile phones could consider holding
lengthy conversations on conventional
phones and reserving the hand-held
models for shorter conversations or for
situations when other types of phones are
not available.
People who must conduct extended con-
versations in their cars every day could
switch to a type of mobile phone that
places more distance between their bodies
and the source of the RF, since the expo-
sure level drops off dramatically with dis-
tance. For example, they could switch to:
a mobile phone in which the antenna
is located outside the vehicle,
a hand-held phone with a built-in an-
tenna connected to a different anten-
na mounted on the outside of the car
or built into a separate package, or
a headset with a remote antenna to a
mobile phone carried at the waist.