Consumer Information On Sar - LG LS970 Sprint User Manual

World Health Organization
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Consumer Information on SAR

(Specific Absorption Rate) This model phone meets the Government‗s requirements for
exposure to radio waves. Your wireless phone is a radio transmitter and receiver. It is designed
and manufactured not to exceed the emission limits for exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy
set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the U.S. Government. These FCC
exposure limits are derived from the recommendations of two expert organizations, the National
Counsel on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) and the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In both cases, the recommendations were developed by scientific
and engineering experts drawn from industry, government, and academia after extensive
reviews of the scientific literature related to the biological effects of RF energy.
The exposure limit for wireless mobile phones employs a unit of measurement known as the
Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR. The SAR is a measure of the rate of absorption of RF energy
by the human body expressed in units of watts per kilogram (W/kg). The FCC requires wireless
phones to comply with a safety limit of 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 W/kg). The FCC exposure
limit incorporates a substantial margin of safety to give additional protection to the public and to
account for any variations in measurements.
Tests for SAR are conducted using standard operating positions specified by the FCC with the
phone transmitting at its highest certified power level in all tested frequency bands. Although
SAR is determined at the highest certified power level, the actual SAR level of the phone while
operating can be well below the maximum value. Because the phone is designed to operate at
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