LG Electronics UN150 FDA shares regulatory, Responsibilities for wireless, About wireless phones

Safety

	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
Safety	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

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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 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