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San Francisco Requires Cell Phone Radiation Warnings

June 16th, 2010 at 12:19 pm |

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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