Sunday, June 27, 2010

Cell Phone Radiation


San Francisco measure would require retailers to post data on cell phone radiation.

The Los Angeles Times (6/17, Olivarez-Giles) reports, "San Francisco is close to enacting a law that would require retailers to post signs stating how much radiation is emitted from cell phones. The city's Board of Supervisors voted 10 to 1 on Tuesday to approve the ordinance, which would require stores to provide each phone's 'specific absorption rate' -- a measurement of radiation absorbed by a phone user's body tissue that each manufacturer is required to register with the Federal Communications Commission." This "law, the first of its kind in the United States, would apply only to stores in San Francisco."

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