21st July 2010

San Francisco Cell Phone Radiation Law Raises Health Issue

Precedent-setting law delights health advocates, enrages wireless industry

By David Lieberman, USA TODAY

People already grapple with complicated information when they buy mobile devices. But San Francisco consumers soon will face one more consideration — cellphone radiation — as the result of a precedent-setting law that delights public health advocates and enrages the wireless industry.

The city recently passed the nation's first local ordinance that requires retailers to post radiation-emission data.

Ex ABC News

San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law

By Jesse McKinley

"Under the law, retailers will be required to post materials -- in at least 11-point type -- next to phones, listing their specific absorption rate, which is the amount of radio waves absorbed into the cell phone user's body tissue.

These so-called SAR rates can vary from phone to phone, but all phones sold in the United States must have a SAR rate no greater than 1.6 watts per kilogram".

Ex New York Times