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  "name": "What is the EMF exposure limit in Canada?",
  "summary": "Safety Code 6 allows 4.56 W/m² at 1900 MHz and 5.42 W/m² at 2450 MHz for the public, with 0.08 W/kg whole-body and 1.6 W/kg local SAR restrictions.",
  "status": "verified",
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  "data": {
    "question": "What are Canada's RF exposure limits under Safety Code 6?",
    "answer": "Health Canada's Safety Code 6 (2015) sets uncontrolled-environment reference levels of 0.02619 f^0.6834 W/m² with frequency f in MHz, which works out to 4.56 W/m² at 1900 MHz and 5.42 W/m² at 2450 MHz, rising to a flat 10 W/m² above 6 GHz. The underlying basic restrictions are 0.08 W/kg whole-body SAR and 1.6 W/kg peak spatially-averaged for head, neck and trunk — the same headline SAR figure as the United States. Safety Code 6 is issued as a guideline, but Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada adopts it for equipment certification, so in practice phones, base stations and broadcast antennas must comply.",
    "cluster": "regulation",
    "aliases": [
      "Safety Code 6 limits",
      "Canada RF exposure limit",
      "Canadian EMF limit"
    ],
    "related": [
      "standards:hc-safety-code-6",
      "limits:sc6-public-300-6000",
      "limits:sc6-sar-basic-restriction",
      "organizations:health-canada"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "hc-safety-code-6",
      "title": "Limits of Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Energy in the Frequency Range from 3 kHz to 300 GHz (Safety Code 6)",
      "publisher": "Health Canada",
      "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/health-risks-safety/limits-human-exposure-radiofrequency-electromagnetic-energy-range-3-300.html",
      "year": 2015,
      "kind": "guideline",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-12"
    },
    {
      "id": "hc-safety-code-6-pdf",
      "title": "Safety Code 6 (2015), H129-48/2015E-PDF — official PDF edition",
      "publisher": "Government of Canada Publications",
      "url": "https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/sc-hc/H129-48-2015-eng.pdf",
      "year": 2015,
      "kind": "guideline",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-12"
    }
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