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Wash Post: Cell phone safety advocates hope Congress forces FCC to updates regulations


Published August 7, 2012

Devra Davis, a long-ignored evangelist on the health dangers of cellphones, finally feels like she’s been heard.

As soon as next week, Congress is expected to say that a year-long investigation by the Government Accountability Office has found the Federal Communications Commission’s cellphone-safety regulations are woefully out of date. Congress may also urge the agency, whose radiation-limit rules are 15 years old, to take a fresh look at how children in particular may be affected by radio waves.

Read the full article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/cellphone-safety-advocate...