Cell phone radiation - What the telecommunication companies don't want you to know. (NaturalNews.com, 2010) http://www.naturalnews.com/036411_cell_phones_radiation_exposure.html

            Contrary to the above article, this article deals with the negative effects of cell phone radiation on humans. In the opening paragraphs the main concern is outlined and clarified: mobile phone radiation has been stated to be a possible human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Derva Davis, PhD, is referenced several times in these paragraphs as she believes if the phone companies don't “make a positive move soon, we may have a global epidemic on our hands within the next two decades.” This startling prediction is backed up almost immediately by the upwards of 500 studies carried out around these theories. Despite all these concerns, there remains a problem with the efforts to correct the issue of the ill effects of cell phone radiation. According to the author of the article the funds necessary to properly research these effects is non-existent and unlikely to appear for the foreseeable future. The second half of this article deals with the CTIA, the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications Industry, and the Right-To-Know ordinances. Such ordinance began in San Francisco in the summer of 2010. They stated that the members of the community who purchased a phone had a right to know of the possible health risks associated with cell phone radiation. The CTIA have brought the city and county of San Francisco to court over this claiming they breach the phone company’s first amendment. The industry hides behind 2 factors:

1. They maintain they have never said cell phones were safe.

2. The manuals which accompany the cell phones state in tiny wording that a cell phone should never be held next to the body in order to avoid exceeding the exposure limits set by the FCC.

These measures taken by the phone companies are simply not good enough in my opinion as the phone companies are well aware the customer is unlikely to ever read these warnings buried deep within their manuals. Also, simply never saying something is or isn’t dangerous doesn’t make it safe to sell.