Mobile phones and health: an interim report
2001
Abbreviations and glossary
The following abbreviations are used throughout this report:
| 3G | Third generation mobile communication system (will operate at 2GHz) |
| Analogue | First generation of mobile phones |
| CENELEC | Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique – European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation |
| DECT | Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications |
| DETR | Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions |
| Dosimetry | The measurement of electromagnetic field penetration into the body |
| DTI | Department of Trade and Industry |
| EMF | Electromagnetic Field |
| EMI | Electromagnetic Interference |
| ESN | Electronic Security Number |
| FEI | Federation of the Electronics Industry |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile Communications. The international, pan-European operating standard for digital cellular mobile communications (operates at 900MHz or 1800MHz) |
| HFK | Hands-free Kit |
| Hz | Hertz; measurement of wave frequency, where 1Hz is one oscillation per second |
| ICNIRP | International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection |
| MRC | Medical Research Council |
| NRPB (UK) | National Radiological Protection Board |
| IEGMP | Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones (Stewart Group) |
| in vitro | Studies conducted in an artificial environment outside the living organism |
| in vivo | Studies conducted ‘within’ a living organism |
| RFR | Radiofrequency Radiation |
| SAR | Specific Energy Absorption Rate |
| SIM | Subscriber Identity Module – security ‘smart cards’ contained in GSM phones |
| Stewart Group | The Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones (IEGMP) |
| TETRA | Terrestrial Trunked Radio |
| WHO | World Health Organization |