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For Your Safety
National Council on Radiation Protection
and Measurements
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 800
Bethesda, MD 20814-3095
Telephone: (301) 657-2652
http://www.ncrponline.org
Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Society, Committee on Man and Radiation
(COMAR) of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/embs/comar/
Consumer Information on SAR
(Specific Absorption Rate)
This model phone meets the government's
requirements for exposure to radio
waves. Your wireless phone is a radio
transmitter and receiver. It is designed and
manufactured not to exceed the emission
limits for exposure to Radio Frequency (RF)
energy set by the Federal Communications
Commission of the U.S. Government.
These limits are part of comprehensive
guidelines and establish permitted levels
of RF energy for the general population.
The guidelines are based on standards
that were developed by independent
scientific organizations through periodic and
thorough evaluation of scientific studies.
The standards include a substantial safety
margin designed to assure the safety of all
persons, regardless of age and health.
The exposure standard for wireless mobile
phones employs a unit of measurement
known as the Specific Absorption Rate, or
SAR. The SAR limit set by the FCC is 1.6
W/kg. Tests for SAR are conducted using
standard operating positions specified
by the FCC with the phone transmitting
at its highest certified power level in all
tested frequency bands. Although 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. Because the phone is
designed to operate at multiple power
levels to use only the power required to
reach the network, in general, the closer
you are to a wireless base station antenna,
the lower the power output.
Before a phone model is available for sale
to the public, it must be tested and certified
to the FCC that it does not exceed the limit
established by the government-adopted
requirement for safe exposure. The tests
are performed in positions and locations
(e.g., at the ear, worn on the body, or
hotspot) as required by the FCC for each
model.
The highest SAR value for this model phone
when tested for use at the ear is 0.50 W/kg
and when worn on the body, as described
in this user guide, is 1.10 W/kg (body-
worn/hotspot measurement differ among
phone models, depending upon available