# Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

> The U.S. regulator that sets and enforces legally binding RF exposure limits, authorises equipment, and publishes the SAR and tower databases underlying most U.S. EMF questions.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/organizations/fcc
- Collection: Organizations
- Record id: `organizations:fcc`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/organizations/fcc
- Also known as: Federal Communications Commission

## Key values

- **Role:** regulator
- **Jurisdiction:** US
- **Website:** https://www.fcc.gov/general/radio-frequency-safety-0

## Related records

- [FCC Maximum Permissible Exposure (47 CFR 1.1310)](https://emfbase.com/standards/fcc-mpe): Legally binding U.S. exposure limits for radiofrequency transmitters from 300 kHz to 100 GHz, adopted from NCRP and ANSI/IEEE recommendations in 1996 and reaffirmed in 2019.
- [FCC SAR limit for phones and portable devices](https://emfbase.com/limits/fcc-sar-limit-phones): 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.

## Sources

- `fcc-rf-safety` Federal Communications Commission. *Radio Frequency Safety*. https://www.fcc.gov/general/radio-frequency-safety-0 — government, link checked 2026-08-12
- `fcc-1310` U.S. Government Publishing Office (eCFR). *47 CFR § 1.1310 — Radiofrequency radiation exposure limits*. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-1.1310 — 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
- `fcc-asr` Federal Communications Commission. *Antenna Structure Registration (ASR) public access database downloads*. https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/data/public-access-files-database-downloads — 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.