The Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) is making a public announcement regarding the specific absorption rate (SAR), which measures the rate at which energy is absorbed by the human body when exposed to a radio frequency electromagnetic field.

This public announcement is entitled: Proposed Draft Technical Provision IFT-012-2016: Technical specifications for compliance with the maximum non-ionizing radiation limits of products, equipment, devices or apparatus for telecommunications that may be connected to a telecommunications network and/or use of the radio spectrum. Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). The public consultation will end on March 23rd, 2017.

This new regulation is intended to protect the general public from hazardous radio frequency energy emissions. When this new regulation takes effect, the new exposure limits for frequencies from 100 kHz to 10 GHz will be:

Specific Absorption Rate