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federal level. The following
agencies belong to this
working group:
•
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 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