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• Occupational Safety and Health

Administration

• National Telecommunications and

Information Administration

The National Institutes of Health

participates in some interagency

working group activities, as well.

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 builtin 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

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