User's Manual

For Your Safety

For Vehicles Equipped with an Air Bag

An air bag inflates with great force. DO NOT place objects, including either installed or portable

wireless equipment, in the area over the air bag or in the air bag deployment area. If in-vehicle

wireless equipment is improperly installed and the air bag inflates, serious injury could result.

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 idle 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 biological effects. Some studies have suggested that some biological effects may occur, but

such findings have not been confirmed by additional research. In some cases, other researchers

have had difficulty in reproducing those studies, or in determining the reasons for inconsistent

results.

2. What is the FDA’s role concerning the safety of wireless phones?

Under the law, the FDA does not review the safety of radiation-emitting consumer products

such as wireless phones before they can be sold, as it does with new drugs or medical devices.

However, the agency has authority to take action if wireless phones are shown to emit Radio

Frequency (RF) energy at a level that is hazardous to the user. In such a case, the FDA could

require the manufacturers of wireless phones to notify users of the health hazard and to repair,

replace, or recall the phones so that the hazard no longer exists.

Although the existing scientific data does not justify FDA regulatory actions, the FDA has urged

the wireless phone industry to take a number of steps, including the following:

ţ Support needed research into possible biological effects of RF of the type emitted by wireless

phones;