LG LGUX210 Owner's Manual - Page 80
The National Institutes of Health participates - cell phone
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● Cooperate in providing users of wireless phones The FCC also regulates the base stations that the with the best possible information on possible wireless phone networks rely upon. While these base effects of wireless phone use on human health. stations operate at higher power than do the wireless The FDA belongs to an interagency working group of the federal agencies that have responsibility for different aspects of RF safety to ensure coordinated efforts at the federal level. The following agencies belong to this working group: 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. ● National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 3. What kinds of phones are the subject of this update? ● Environmental Protection Agency ● Occupational Safety and Health Administration ● National Telecommunications and Information Administration 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 Radio Frequency (RF) energy because of the short SAFETY The National Institutes of Health participates in distance between the phone and the user's head. some interagency working group activities, as well. These RF exposures are limited by FCC safety 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. 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 socalled "cordless phones," which have a base unit 79