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Safety Information
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?
The term "wireless phone" refers here
to handheld wireless phones with
built-in antennas, often called "cell",
"mobile", or "PCS" phones. These types
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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 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.
4. What are the results of the
research done already?
The research done thus far has
produced conflicting results, and
many studies have suffered from
flaws in their research methods.
Animal experiments investigating