FCC re-evaluation cell phone safety

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has released a formal petition to his fellow commissioners calling for an inter-agency review of mobile phone emission frequency standards, set in 1996. At the heart of the proposal, which will need majority approval before public comment and any studies commence, are growing concerns about health risks of radiation emitted from mobile devices and whether the 15-year-old standards don’t take into account the proliferation of both mobile device ownership...