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APPENDIX
110
F
CC
Draft
• National Telecommunications and Information
Administration
The National Institutes of Health participates in some
interagency working group activities, as well.
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. FCC relies on
FDA and other health agencies for safety questions about
wireless phones.
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
primary subject of the safety questions discussed in this
document.
What is FDA doing to find out more about the possible
health effects of wireless phone RF?