Low-Radiation Cell Phones:Good or Bad? Part 4

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Perception matters

Despite the science still being inconclusive, making phone SAR data easily accessible might behoove phone manufacturers to aim for lower figures.
"Even if it's just a small set of the population that pays attention to these SAR values, and I think there will be a segment of population that does, it will provide the economic motivation for industry to make cell phones with lower SARs," said David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany.

The radiation in question is emitted by a phone's antenna as it links up to a base tower, said EWG's Naidenko. She suggested that many phone manufacturers could lower SARs by engineering their devices with so-called directional antennas, rather than antennas that also emit radiation equally in all directions, including at a user's head.

On the consumer side, EWG has encouraged cell phone users to text rather than talk, and to use Bluetooth or speakers to limit their radiation exposure.
Despite its success in San Francisco, the EWG does not have immediate plans to lobby for similar legislation in other cities or states. A statewide initiative similar to that in San Fran recently failed to pass the California state legislature, and other efforts to include warning labels on cell phones have thus far ailed elsewhere in states such as Maine.

It seems that there is no end in sight for the cell-phones-causing-cancer debate — or legislative action associated with it — so consumers can expect to hear a lot more about cell phone SARs.

"We believe this is information that consumers are entitled to know," Naidenko said. "If in ten years the [scientific] answers come in and show a big increased health risk from cell phones, we will ask why didn't we take precautionary steps?"

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