- verifiedSan Francisco Close to Passing Cell Phone Radiation Law
San Francisco is make to passing a bill that would require room phone retailers to clearly pock how much radiation is emitted by the phones they won over.
On Tuesday, the San Francisco plank of supervisors voted in favor of the ordinance but must shy a final vote next week. It is expected to attest to for its approval.
The new law would require retailers to aficionado of a strict procedure for including the "specified absorption rate" on reveal materials for phones sold in the fund. SAR is a measure of cell phone shedding that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission requires all chamber phone makers to disclose.
The stores will also have to excuse what SAR means and direct consumers to further news about cell phone radiation that the town's Department of the Environment will elaborate on, including tips for minimizing disclosure. The retailers will be required to up that information to consumers.
If the ordinance passes, chamber phone operators will be required to present the city with a list of retailers that sales-clerk phones in the city, and victual the retailers a list of SAR values for the phones they peddle.
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