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Safety
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Occupational Safety and
Health Administration
(Administración de la
seguridad y salud laborales)
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Occupational Safety and
Health Administration
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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?
’, ‘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.