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Safety Guidelines
• 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
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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 of wireless
phones can expose the user
to measurable radiofrequency
energy (RF) because of the
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