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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 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.

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.

FDA continues to monitor the use of wireless

phones for possible interactions with other

medical devices. Should harmful interference

be found to occur, FDA will conduct testing to

assess the interference and work to resolve the

problem.

10.What are the results of the research done

already?

The research done thus far has produced

conflicting results, and many studies have

suffered from flaws in their research methods.

Animal experiments investigating the effects of

radio frequency energy (RF) exposures

characteristic of wireless phones have yielded

conflicting results that often cannot be repeated

in other laboratories. A few animal studies,

however, have suggested that low levels of RF

could accelerate the development of cancer in

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