The Maine legislature and the city of San Francisco will each consider requiring cell phone manufacturers to include radiation warnings with their products.
The proposal introduced in Maine by Andrea M. Boland would require cellphone manufacturers to put warnings on packaging, like those on cigarettes.
The San Francisco proposal, as reported in SF Gate, would require specific absorption rates (SAR) to be included with consumer information on phones sold in the city. The Environment Department is currently reviewing it. A link to the complete proposal doesn’t seem to be available (here is a link to the first half listing several “WHEREAS”‘s, which abruptly ends at RESOLVED).
The San Francisco Public Library is also hosting Dr. Devra Davis, founder of the Environmental Health Trust and professor at the University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on health concerns related to teen cell phone use, on January 17, 2010.
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