LG Electronics MMBB0378701 manual National Institute for, Occupational Safety, Health, Agency

Safety

	●	National Institute for
	●
		Occupational Safety and
		Health
	●	Environmental Protection
		Agency
	●	Occupational Safety and
		Health Administration
		National Telecommunications
		and Information
		Administration
	The National Institutes of Health
	participates in some interagency
Safety	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

98about 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 Radio Frequency (RF) energy because of the short distance between the phone and