A new law enforcing cell phone retailers in San Francisco to post the amount of radiation emitted from their cell phones, was passed today. The ground-breaking law, passed by the city’s Board of Supervisors, will now require stores to disclose the specific absorption rate, or SAR of each phone they sell. Supervisors voted last week to give preliminary approval to the law, which is supported by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who is expected to sign the new ordinance within 10 days. The city’s ordinance would require cell phone providers give their retailers a list of SAR values for specific phone models. Those retailers would then have to post those values and federal SAR limits in their stores. Larger chains would have untilnext February to comply, and other stores would have until 2012.
