San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>
Date: June 15, 2010 11:58:59 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: For IP: San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law
Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/us/16cell.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

SAN FRANCISCO --- Imposing roughly the same cautionary standards for 
cellphones as for fatty food or sugary soda, this city --- never shy 
about its opinions --- voted on Tuesday to require all retailers to 
display the amount of radiation each phone emits... [snip]

...

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 
cellphone 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, according to the 
Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the $190 billion 
wireless industry.  [snip]



Ole


Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
Cisco Systems
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