# FCC SAR limit for phones and portable devices

> 1.6 W/kg averaged over any 1 gram of tissue — the number quoted on U.S. phone SAR sheets — plus 0.08 W/kg whole-body.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/limits/fcc-sar-limit-phones
- Collection: Exposure limits
- Record id: `limits:fcc-sar-partial-body`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/limits/fcc-sar-limit-phones

## Key values

- **Limit value:** 1.6 W/kg — Regulatory value — legally enforceable — Spatial peak SAR averaged over 1 g of tissue, per 47 CFR 2.1093 for general population/uncontrolled exposure. [fcc-2-1093]
- **Quantity:** specific absorption rate
- **Frequency band:** 100 kHz–6 GHz
- **Population:** general public
- **Set by:** FCC Maximum Permissible Exposure (47 CFR 1.1310) (1996, reaffirmed 2019)
- **Kind:** Regulatory — legally enforceable
- **Averaging time:** 30 minutes — A measurement must use the same averaging before it can be compared with this value.

## Sources

- `fcc-2-1093` U.S. Government Publishing Office (eCFR). *47 CFR § 2.1093 — Radiofrequency radiation exposure evaluation: portable devices*. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-2.1093 — regulation, link checked 2026-08-12
- `fcc-eas` Federal Communications Commission. *Equipment Authorization Search (FCC ID lookup, includes SAR test reports)*. https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid — government, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

This record is reference data, not medical or legal advice. Regulatory limits, scientific guidelines and precautionary values are labelled separately and answer different questions.