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San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Radiation Warnings

Posted by Soulskill on from the apple-trademarks-i-rradiate dept.

Lord Ender writes "Poor phone reception may soon be a selling point in San Francisco. A city ordinance was just approved which requires those selling phones to indicate the 'specific absorption rate' (SAR) caused by the radio transmitters in the phones. Cell phone industry groups opposed the law. The FCC already requires phones sold in the US to have SAR levels below 1.6 W/kg, though adverse health effects from such levels of radio exposure have never been conclusively demonstrated."

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  1. Re:important psa by Volante3192 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Were you to clarify that 1. That's not a -recent- finding and 2. UV is radiation, few would remain astonished.

    I'm pretty sure 'UV = radiation' would astonish people.

    Radiation is associated with things like Chernobyl. Hiroshima. Yucca Mountain. Blinky, the three eyed fish on The Simpsons. Bad things, in essence.

    That radiation is simply a massive umbrella with a wide spectrum is a fact lost on people.