# U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

> Regulates radiation-emitting electronic products including microwave ovens, and reviews the evidence base for RF exposure from consumer devices.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/organizations/fda
- Collection: Organizations
- Record id: `organizations:fda`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/organizations/fda

## Key values

- **Role:** regulator
- **Jurisdiction:** US
- **Website:** https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products

## Related records

- [Microwave oven](https://emfbase.com/emitters/microwave-oven): The only consumer appliance with its own federal leakage standard: 5 mW/cm² at 5 cm from the surface over the product's lifetime, which is 50,000,000 µW/m² — high compared with any communications source.

## Sources

- `fda-microwave` U.S. Food and Drug Administration. *Microwave Ovens*. https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/resources-you-radiation-emitting-products/microwave-oven-radiation — 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.