Monday, January 4, 2010

warning labels on cell phones?

According to eweek. com Maine and the mayor of San Francisco want to enforce retailers to display the absorption rate level next to each phone and as big as the price. They are also wanting to require cell phone makers to: "affix labels on their devices warning consumers of possible brain cancer risks due to electromagnetic radiation". There have been studies that found that people who have been using cell phones for 10 years or longer have higher risks of brain and salivary gland tumors.
According to WKOWTV.com a lawmaker in Maine is pushing for cell phone warning labels against brain cancer. According to them: "the FCC says that all cell phones sold in the US are safe."

What do you think about warning labels on cell phones?

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/WARNING-Maine-SF-Consider-Cell-Phone-Cancer-Labels-720959/

http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11708178

2 comments:

  1. i dont think people would care if there was a warning or not.

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  2. some people may not care if there were lables or not and might just think that it would make there phone look bad. But I think that phones and ear phones are a hazard to the younger gernerations who will eventually not be able to hear beacuse they have ruined there ears and there brain.

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