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San Francisco Passes Law On Cell Phone Radiation
Retailers must clearly display each phone's radiation levels

As had been expected, San Francisco this week became the first city to require cellphone retail operations to clearly display radiation emission levels for all cellphones sold right next to the price. According to the New York Times, the information must be clearly displayed in at least 11 point type -- and must specifically display the phone's specific absorption rate (SAR). Phones sold in the U.S. can't have a SAR higher than 1.6 watts per kilogram, according to the FCC. The requirement, the first in the nation, comes despite no solid scientific data yet linking cell phone radiation to cancer. There was one recent study that found heavy user may increase cancer risk, though a degree of dysfunction apparently kept a directly causal link from being made.


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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY

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Transmaster

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The Big problem with Libbies that run Cities

The problems liberals have running cities is it isn't fun to do the mundane things to keep a great city going, fixing the sewers, filling in pot holes, running the police, the fire department, etc. It is more fun to do stuff like declaring themselves a sanctuary city, don't let the Marine Corp Silent drill team preform, eeooow Military beasts, green house gases, banning plastic bags, Lawyers for Labradors, and so on. Negotiate your city out of a free city wide WiFi system from Google. Blackberry's for Bums
So making people post RF field levels is par for the course. This is ridiculous Hamradio operators have been using frequencies in this region for about 50 years and there has been no reported problems. So in stead of fix the pot holes management, it is Feel good management.

joebarnhart
Paxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA

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joebarnhart

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Ban di-hydrogen oxide instead

This city allows thousands of its residents to be killed by the pollutant di-hydrogen oxide every year, yet they waste time on issues like cell phone "radiation."

I think the city's politicians should stick to picking up garbage and making sure the potholes don't swallow Honda Civics.