Environmental Health Trust Lauds San Francisco For Enacting Nation’s First Cell Phone Ordinance
Acknowledges Significant Milestone Toward Cell Phone Safety Awareness
This month the Department will distribute materials and educate local cell phone retailers about the ordinance. Retailers must comply with the ordinance by the end of October.
The materials required under the ordinance include a fact sheet, poster and stickers. The materials are now available online at www.sfenvironment.org/our_programs/interests.html?ssi=2&ti=3&ii=250.
The fact sheet makes the following five recommendations:
• Limiting cell phone use by children. Developing brains and thinner skulls lead to higher absorption in children.
• Using a headset, speakerphone or text instead. Exposure decreases rapidly with increasing distance from the phone.
• Using belt clips and purses to keep distance between your phone and body. Do not carry on your body to at least meet the distance specified in your phone’s user manual.
• Avoiding cell phones in areas with weak signals (elevators, on transit, etc.). Using a cell phone in areas of good reception decreases exposure by allowing the phone to transmit at reduced power.
• Reducing the number and length of calls. Turn off your cell phone when not in use.
“Ellen Marks, EHT’s governmental affairs chief, worked tirelessly to see that San Francisco acquired the basic right to know how to practice safe phone,” Dr. Davis said. “With the passing of this ordinance, the City of San Francisco has taken a significant leap forward in promoting the awareness of health risks posed by cell phone use. The progressive thinking that led to this event should serve as an inspiration to other cities and towns around the nation as they propose similar ordinances. In addition, it is to be hoped that its passage will spur the federal government to consider a national cell phone ordinance, which would allow the U.S. to adhere to the safety standards recognized by an increasing number of governments around the globe.”
About Environmental Health Trust
Environmental Health Trust (EHT) educates individuals, health professionals and communities about controllable environmental health risks and policy changes needed to reduce those risks. Current multi-media projects include: local and national campaigns to ban smoking and asbestos; working with international physician and worker safety groups to warn about the risks of inappropriate use of diagnostic radiation and cell phones, promoting research and awareness of environmental causes of breast cancer, and building environmental wellness programs in Wyoming and Pennsylvania to address the environmental impacts of energy development, the built environment and radon. EHT was created with the goal of promoting health and preventing disease one person, one community and one nation at a time. Capitalizing on growing public interest in Dr. Devra Lee Davis’s three popular books, When Smoke Ran Like Water, a National Book Award Finalist, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, and Disconnect--The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation, What Industry Has Done to Hide It and How to Protect Your Family, as well as recent documentary films, the foundation’s website offers clear, science-based information to prevent environmentally based disease and promote health, for the general public, children, and health professionals. For more information about getting involved in the numerous special projects spearheaded by the EHT, please log on to www.ehtrust.org.
Janet Vasquez
The Investor Relations Group
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jvasquez@investorrelationsgroup.com
Environmental Health Trust
www.saferphonezone.com
