On Tuesday night, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave final approval to a law which would require retailers to post the amount of electromagnetic radiation the phones produce.
The 9-1 vote was a final approval of the bill, as opposed to the preliminary approval, which took place on June 15. Mayor Gavin Newsom is expected to approve the new restrictions.
San Francisco will become the first city to enact a regulation of the sort, seen by the cell-phone industry and some retailers as artificially restrictive. Retailers just outside the city limits would not be bound by the new restrictions.
If signed into law by Newsom, the law
would require retailers to display the “Specific Absorption Rate,” an
FCC-mandated specification, next to the phones. Failure to comply would
result in fines of between $100 to $300.
