San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law
San Francisco, a U.S. trend setter on many social issues, voted Tuesday to require retailers to post notices on how much radiation is emitted by cellphones they sell. The Board of Supervisors approved the ordiance, believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, despite opposition from the cell phone industry which argued that it could impede sales and mislead consumers into believing some phones are safer than others.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, an avid iPhone user who is running as the Democratic nominee for California’s lieutenant governor, is expected to sign the ordinance into law after a 10-day comment period, reports the Associated Press. “In addition to protecting the consumers’ right to know, this legislation will encourage telephone manufacturers to redesign their devices to function at lower radiation levels,” Gavin said in January in proposing the legislation.
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