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To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (2545)	10/21/1999 11:51:00 AM
From: Clean	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

if radiation is proportional to power usage (I dunno), digital would emit less than analog. i have a dual mode nok and analog sucks the battery down compared to digital. I use an earpiece too; does that mean I'll have hip cancer? regards.

To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (2545)	10/21/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: Diamond Jim	Respond to of 34857

His name is... messages.yahoo.com I think he owns Virgin Airways, British fellow.

To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (2545)	10/21/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 34857

Cell 'phones and Cancer- Word from the FCC Full Story... fcc.gov SAFETY GUIDELINES FOR HAND-HELD CELLULAR TELEPHONES Washington, D.C. - - On October 20, 1999, the ABC News show "20/20" aired a story about the safety of hand-held cellular telephones and their compliance with FCC safety and testing guidelines. The Commission would like to provide consumers with the following information relevant to these issues. <snip> The ABC News story reported that certain cell telephones it tested failed to comply with FCC test guidelines. We have not seen the full report, but the preliminary data that was shared with us certainly warrants close scrutiny. We will conduct our own expert examination of the full report once it is provided to us by ABC. Whether these phones are not in compliance with our limits remains to be determined, since variability in evaluation procedures is often an issue and the specific test procedures used by the European laboratory that conducted the tests for ABC have to be reviewed further. <snip> The values of exposure reported by ABC were well within that safety margin, and, therefore, there is no indication of any immediate threat to human health from these phones. <snip>

To: Jim Lurgio who wrote (2545)	10/21/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 34857

Cell 'phones and Cancer - Word from the FDA Full story on fda.gov Consumer Update on Mobile Phones FDA has been receiving inquiries about the safety of mobile phones, including cellular phones and PCS phones. The following summarizes what is known--and what remains unknown--about whether these products can pose a hazard to health, and what can be done to minimize any potential risk. This information may be used to respond to questions. <snip> it is not known whether, to what extent, or through what mechanism, lower levels of RF might cause adverse health effects as well. Although some research has been done to address these questions, no clear picture of the biological effects of this type of radiation has emerged to date. Thus, the available science does not allow us to conclude that mobile phones are absolutely safe, or that they are unsafe. However, the available scientific evidence does not demonstrate any adverse health effects associated with the use of mobile phones. <snip> What kinds of phones are in question? Questions have been raised about hand-held mobile phones, the kind that have a built-in antenna that is positioned close to the user's head during normal telephone conversation. These types of mobile phones are of concern because of the short distance between the phone's antenna--the primary source of the RF--and the person's head. The exposure to RF from mobile phones in which the antenna is located at greater distances from the user (on the outside of a car, for example) is drastically lower than that from hand-held phones, because a person's RF exposure decreases rapidly with distance from the source. The safety of so-called "cordless phones," which have a base unit connected to the telephone wiring in a house and which operate at far lower power levels and frequencies, has not been questioned. How much evidence is there that hand-held mobile phones might be harmful? Briefly, there is not enough evidence to know for sure, either way; however, research efforts are on-going. The existing scientific evidence is conflicting and many of the studies that have been done to date have suffered from flaws in their research methods. Animal experiments investigating the effects of RF exposures characteristic of mobile phones have yielded conflicting results. A few animal studies, however, have suggested that low levels of RF could accelerate the development of cancer in laboratory animals. In one study, mice genetically altered to be predisposed to developing one type of cancer developed more than twice as many such cancers when they were exposed to RF energy compared to controls. There is much uncertainty among scientists about whether results obtained from animal studies apply to the use of mobile phones <snip>