The author of a watered-down San Francisco cellphone-radiation measure predicted passage...
The author of a watered-down San Francisco cellphone-radiation measure predicted passage after an 11-0 preliminary vote in favor. A final decision scheduled for the Board of Supervisors’ next meeting, Tuesday, is “more perfunctory,” because no changes are planned from the…
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version of the proposed ordinance endorsed on a first vote at this week’s meeting, Erica Maybaum, an aide to the author, Supervisor John Avalos, said Wednesday. The proposed ordinance would require retailers to give shoppers information about radiofrequency radiation and how to minimize it and by giving a city fact sheet to purchasers and anyone who asks for it. The requirement would replace one for disclosure of the “specific absorption rate” of each handset offered (CD June 17/10 p7). The city put that on hold in the face of a legal challenge and convention boycott threat by CTIA. Vice President John Walls of the association denounced the new measure as “an unnecessary yet harmful ordinance that potential opens mom-and-pop cellphone retailers to civil liability for forgetting to distribute a mandate brochure.” The requirement “misleads consumers by creating a negative perception of a product that already complies with federal standards and is deemed … safe by the FCC and FDA,” he said. CTIA’s lawsuit is on hold and “if the ordinance becomes law, we will decide how to proceed,” a spokeswoman said.