Sendo SND100 US SAR Statement pages

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Radio frequency (RF) signals

THIS MODEL PHONE MEETS THE
GOVERNMENT’S REQUIREMENTS FOR
EXPOSURE TO RADI O WAVES.

Your wireless phone is a radio transmitter and
receiver. It is designed and manufactured not to
exceed the emission limits for exposure to radio
frequency (RF) energy set by the Federal
Communications Commission of the U.S.
Government and by Health Canada. These limits
are part of comprehensive guidelines and establish
permitted levels of RF energy for the general
population. The guidelines are based on standards
that were developed by independent scientific
organizations through periodic and thorough
evaluation of scientific studies. The standards
include a substantial safety margin designed to
assure the safety of all persons, regardless of age
and health. The exposure standard for wireless
mobile phones employs a unit of measurement
known as the Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR. The
SAR limit set by the FCC and Health Canada is

1.6W/kg.* Tests for SAR are conducted using
standard operating positions accepted by the FCC
and Industry Canada with the phone transmitting at
its highest certified power level in all tested
frequency bands. Although the SAR is determined
at the highest certified power level, the actual SAR
level of the phone while operating can be well
below the maximum value. This is because the
phone is designed to operate at multiple power
levels so as to use only the power required to reach
the network. In general, the closer you are to a
wireless base station antenna, the lower the power
output.

Before a phone model is available for sale to the
public in the US and Canada, it must be tested and
certified to the FCC and Industry Canada that it
does not exceed the limit established by the

government-adopted requirement for safe
exposure. The tests are performed in positions and
locations (for example, at the ear and worn on the
body) as approved by the FCC and Industry
Canada for each model. The highest SAR value for
this model phone as reported to the FCC and
available for review by Industry Canada when
tested for use at the ear is 1.296 W/kg, and when
worn on the body, as described in this user guide,
is 1.034 W/kg. (Body-worn measurements differ
among phone models, depending upon available
accessories and FCC requirements.) While there
may be differences between the SAR levels of
various phones and at various positions, they all
meet the government requirement.

The FCC and Industry Canada have granted an
Equipment Authorization for this model phone with
all reported SAR levels evaluated as in compliance
with the FCC RF exposure guidelines. SAR
information on this model phone is on file with the
FCC and can be found under the Display Grant
section of http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid after
searching on FCC ID:P6PSND100, Industry
Canada ID: IC:4279A-SND100 or MET Listing
no:E112302. For body-worn operation, to maintain
compliance with FCC RF exposure guidelines, use
only Sendo-approved accessories. When carrying
the phone while it is on, place the phone in the
original Sendo carry case that has been tested for
compliance.

Use of non-Sendo-approved accessories may
violate FCC RF exposure guidelines and should be
avoided.

*In the United States and Canada, the SAR limit for
mobile phones used by the public is 1.6 watts/kg
(W/kg) averaged over one gram of tissue and
allows for testing and other tolerances. The
standard incorporates a substantial margin of

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safety to give additional protection for the public
and to account for any variations in measurements.

The U.S. Food and Drug

Administration’s Center for
Devices and Radiological Health
Consumer Update on Mobile Phones

FDA has been receiving inquiries about the safety
of mobile phones, including cellular phones and
PCS phones. The following summarizes what is

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known—and what remains unknown—about
whether these products can pose a hazard to
health, and what can be done to minimize any
potential risk. This information may be used to
respond to questions.

Why the concern?

Mobile phones emit low levels of radiofrequency
energy (i.e. radiofrequency radiation) in the
microwave range while being used. They also emit
very low levels of radiofrequency energy (RF),
considered non-significant, when in the stand-by
mode. It is well known that high levels of RF can
produce biological damage through heating effects
(this is how your microwave oven is able to cook
food). However, it is not known whether, to what
extent, or through what mechanism, lower levels of
RF might cause adverse health effects as well.
Although some research has been done to address
these questions, no clear picture of the biological
effects of this type of radiation has emerged to
date. Thus, the available science does not allow us
to conclude that mobile phones are absolutely safe,
or that they are unsafe. However, the available
scientific evidence does not demonstrate any
adverse health effects associated with the use of
mobile phones.

What kinds of phones are in question?

Questions have been raised about hand-held
mobile phones, the kind that have a built-in antenna
that is positioned close to the user’s head during
normal telephone conversation. These types of
mobile phones are of concern because of the short
distance between the phone’s antenna—the
primary source of the RF— and the person’s head.
The exposure to RF from mobile phones in which
the antenna is located at greater distances from the
user (on the outside of a car, for example) is
drastically lower than that from hand-held phones,
because a person’s RF exposure decreases
rapidly with distance from the source. The safety of
so-called "cordless phones," which have a base
unit connected to the telephone wiring in a house
and which operate at far lower power levels and
frequencies, has not been questioned.

How much evidence is there that hand-held mobile
phones might be harmful?

Briefly, there is not enough evidence to know for
sure, either way; however, research efforts are on­going. The existing scientific evidence is conflicting
and many of the studies that have been done to
date have suffered from flaws in their research
methods. Animal experiments investigating the
effects of RF exposures characteristic of mobile
phones have yielded conflicting results. A few
animal studies, however, have suggested that low
levels of RF could accelerate the development of
cancer in laboratory animals. In one study, mice
genetically altered to be predisposed to
developing one type of cancer developed more
than twice as many such cancers when they were
exposed to RF energy compared to controls. There
is much uncertainty among scientists about
whether results obtained from animal studies apply
to the use of mobile phones. First, it is uncertain
how to apply the results obtained in rats and mice

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