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Safety Guidelines

The FDA shares regulatory

responsibilities for wireless phones

with the Federal Communications

Commission (FCC). All phones that are

sold in the United States must comply

with FCC safety guidelines that limit RF

exposure. The FCC relies on the FDA

and other health agencies for safety

questions about wireless phones.

The FCC also regulates the base

stations that the wireless phone

networks rely upon. While these base

stations operate at higher power than

do the wireless phones themselves, the

RF exposures that people get from these

base stations are typically thousands

of times lower than those they can get

from wireless phones. Base stations

are thus not the subject of the safety

questions discussed in this document.

3. What kinds of phones are the

subject of this update?

The term ‘wireless phone’ refers here to

handheld wireless phones with built-in

antennas, often called ‘cell’, ‘mobile’,

or ‘PCS’ phones. These types of

wireless phones can expose the user to

measurable radiofrequency energy (RF)

because of the short distance between

the phone and the user’s head. These

RF exposures are limited by FCC safety

guidelines that were developed with

the advice of the FDA and other federal

health and safety agencies. When the

phone is located at greater distances

from the user, the exposure to RF is

drastically lower because a person’s

RF exposure decreases rapidly with

increasing distance from the source.

The so-called ‘cordless phones,’ which

have a base unit connected to the

telephone wiring in a house, typically

operate at far lower power levels, and

thus produce RF exposures far below

the FCC safety limits.

4. What are the results of the

research done already?

The research done thus far has

produced conflicting results, and

many studies have suffered from

flaws in their research methods.

Animal experiments investigating the

effects of radiofrequency energy (RF)

exposures characteristic of wireless

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