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As more and more evidence points to severe health hazards associated with cell phone radiation emissions, how can it be that cell phones were so easily approved for use by the FDA? And how can it be that Cell Phones were approved without any preliminary premarket testing?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the governing body responsible for regulating wireless phones. This authority was granted to the FDA under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1968 (originally titled Radiation Control for Public Health and Safety) and then again under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Cell Phones were not only approved but exempt from any regulations by the FDA based upon a widely accepted but scientifically unconfirmed theory that the effect of radio waves operating below SAR levels of 40 watts did not produce tissue heating. Since cell phones operate far below 40 watts, with power less than .6 of 1 watt, cell phones were exempt from any regulations.(The calculation of SAR begins by measuring the amount of heat that is generated by radio waves passing through tissue at one specified moment.)(1)

Both the FDA as well as the most influential standard-setting group for radio frequency radiation (the IEEE/American National Standards Institute) used these unconfirmed findings as substantiated evidence that cell phones posed no health hazard and were safe. This was also the rationale the government used to explain why they had not required premarket testing before millions of Americans would begin using cell phones on a regular basis.

While the FDA sees fit to continue its push to regulate herbs such as lobelia, it does not consider microwave radiation to the brain as something that requires any regulations.

What should come as no shock is the depths of corruption regarding big business, big government and big money when it comes to the regulation (or more accurately the lack of regulation) of cell phones.

Sources:

(1)Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age by Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram pg 21