Mitsubishi TRIUM ECLIPSE User Manual page 3

SAR
THIS ECLIPSE PHONE MEETS THE EU REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPOSURE TO RADIO
WAVES.
Before a phone model is available for sale to the public, compliance with the Europe-
an R&TTE directive (1999/5/CE) must be shown. This directive includes as one essential
requirement the protection of the health and the safety for the user and any other
person.
Your mobile phone is a radio transmitter and receiver. It is designed and manufac-
tured not to exceed the limits for exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy recom-
mended by The Council of the European Union . These limits are part of
comprehensive guidelines and establish permitted levels of RF energy for the general
population. The guidelines were developed by independent scientific organisations
through periodic and thorough evaluation of scientific studies. The limits include a
substantial safety margin designed to assure the safety of all persons, regardless of
age and health.
The exposure standard for mobile phones (CENELEC standard EN 50360: 2000) em-
ploys a unit of measurement known as the Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR. The SAR
limit recommended by The Council of the European Union is 2.0 W/kg. Tests for SAR
have been conducted using standard operating positions (with reference to CENELEC
standard EN 50361: 2000) with the phone transmitting at its highest certified power
level in all tested frequency bands . Although the 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. This is because the phone is designed to operate at mul-
tiple power levels so as to use only the power required to reach the network. In gen-
eral, the closer you are to a base station antenna, the lower the power output.
The highest SAR value for this Trium Aura, Mystral or Odyssey model when tested for
compliance against the standard was 0.941 W/kg. While there may be differences be-
tween the SAR levels of various phones and at various positions, they all meet the EU
requirements for RF exposure.
There are a number of independent sources of information available to users includ-
ing:
Royal Society of Canada: www.rsc.ca
The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP):
www.icnirp.de
The US Food and Drug Administration:
www.fda.gov/cdrh/ocd/mobilphone.html
The World Health Organization: www.who.int/emf
Mitsubishi Electric belongs to the MMF, an international association of radio equip-
ment manufacturers.
The MMF produces information such as this in accordance with its purpose of devel-
oping and presenting industry positions to independent research organisations, gov-
ernment and other research bodies.
Mobile Manufacturers Forum
Diamant Building, 80 Blvd. A. Reyers
B-1030 Brussels
Belgium
www.mmfai.org
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