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WHO cell phone report 'inconclusive': Taiwan's HTC

TAIPEI : Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC Thursday labelled as "inconclusive" a World Health Organization study tha
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"While the current WHO research results are inconclusive, we continue to actively monitor for new research in this area," the company said in a statement.

"HTC is committed to providing a quality product and we follow governmental guidelines and regulations pertaining to phone safety."

The statement came after the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced Tuesday that radio-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by wireless devices are "possibly carcinogenic to humans."

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011