Section 12: Health and Safety Information 139Consumer Information on Wireless PhonesSection 12• "Federal Communications Commission• "Occupational Safety and Health Administration• "National Telecommunications and Information AdministrationThe National Institutes of Health participates in someinteragency working group activities, as well.FDA shares regulatory responsibilities for wirelessphones with the Federal Communications Commission(FCC). All phones that are sold in the United Statesmust comply with FCC safety guidelines that limit RFexposure. FCC relies on FDA and other health agenciesfor safety questions about wireless phones.FCC also regulates the base stations that the wirelessphone networks rely upon. While these base stationsoperate at higher power than do the wireless phonesthemselves, the RF exposures that people get fromthese base stations are typically thousands of timeslower than those they can get from wireless phones.Base stations are thus not the primary subject of thesafety questions discussed in this document.What are the results of the research done already?The research done thus far has produced conflictingresults, and many studies have suffered from flaws intheir research methods. Animal experimentsinvestigating the effects of radio frequency energy (RF)exposures characteristic of wireless phones haveyielded conflicting results that often cannot be repeatedin other laboratories. A few animal studies, however,have suggested that low levels of RF could acceleratethe development of cancer in laboratory animals.However, many of the studies that showed increased
