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    Quality and safety standards for healthcare in another EU country

    Quality and safety standards for healthcare in another country of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland Healthcare is provided according to the...
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    Health effects and limit values

    Optical radiation (visible light, UV and infrared light) is biologically active, that is to say that biological effects may occur. With too strong or protracted exposure, these...
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    Precautionary measures

    Optical radiation (visible light, UV and infrared light) only implies a risk with very strong light sources (flash lights, lasers) and in the industrial work environment. Lamps...
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    Mobile phone and health

    It is hard to imagine life today without the mobile phone. Nearly four million mobile phones are sold each year. Today more than 90% of young people between 10 and 17 years of age...
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    Legal framework and control for mobile phones

    Rules imposed by EuropeMobile telephones use radio waves. That is why they fall under the European R&TTE directive 1999/5/EC (R&TTE stands for 'Radio and...
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    Mobile phone and brain cancer?

    Even though mobile telephones meet the standards, there are still factors that justify careful use and further research into the possible health effects of this technology,...
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    Mobile phones and children

    The use of the mobile phone by children is a special point of attention. Children may be more sensitive to radio waves. Children absorb twice as much radiation in the brain than...
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    Wireless devices

    Do you wonder if the use of the wireless phone or WiFi brings you in contact with a strong electromagnetic radiation and implies a risk for that reason? Not every type of device...
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    RoHS

    The RoHS directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS: “Restriction of Hazardous Substances”) lays down legal limits for certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. Due to...
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    WEEE – Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment

    When electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) becomes waste, we refer to it as “WEEE” (Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment). For this waste, particular regulations apply...