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For Your Safety 174

The FDA belongs to an interagency working group of the federal agencies that

have responsibility for different aspects of RF safety to ensure coordinated efforts

atthefederallevel.Thefollowingagenciesbelongtothisworkinggroup:

• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

• Environmental Protection Agency

• OccupationalSafetyandHealthAdministration(Administracióndelaseguridad

ysaludlaborales)

• 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 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.

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