# Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS)

> German federal radiation protection authority. Publishes the public SAR database of manufacturer-declared values for mobile phones sold in Germany, measured to EN 62209-1 and EN 62209-2 with 10 g averaging.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/organizations/german-federal-office-for-radiation-protection
- Collection: Organizations
- Record id: `organizations:bfs`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/organizations/german-federal-office-for-radiation-protection
- Also known as: BfS, German Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz

## Key values

- **Role:** health authority
- **Jurisdiction:** DE
- **Website:** https://www.bfs.de/EN/home/home_node.html

## Related records

- [Looking up a phone's SAR from the primary record](https://emfbase.com/protocols/sar-lookup): How to get the tested SAR for a specific handset from the FCC equipment authorization database using the device's FCC ID, instead of relying on third-party lists.
- [ICNIRP 2020 local SAR basic restriction (head and torso)](https://emfbase.com/limits/icnirp-local-sar-limit): 2 W/kg averaged over 10 grams of tissue for the general public — a different averaging mass than the FCC's 1 g, which is why SAR numbers are not directly comparable between regions.

## Sources

- `bfs-sar-database` Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (German Federal Office for Radiation Protection). *SAR search — declared SAR values of mobile phones*. https://www.bfs.de/EN/service/sar-suche/sar_suche_node.html — government, link checked 2026-08-12
- `bfs-sar-mobile` Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (German Federal Office for Radiation Protection). *Specific absorption rate (SAR) of mobile phones — measurement procedure and interpretation*. https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/emf/mobile-communication/protection/sar-mobil/sar-mobile-phone.html — 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.