PARIS, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Apple must stop selling its iPhone 12 model in France due to above-threshold radiation levels, France’s junior minister for the digital economy told newspaper Le Parisien in an interview published on Tuesday.
France’s radiation watchdog ANFR notified Apple of its decision to ban iPhone 12 sales after it had carried out tests which showed the smartphone’s Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) was slightly higher than legally allowed, Jean-Noel Barrot told the paper.
Apple did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.
Barrot said a software update would be sufficient to fix the radiation issues linked to the phone which the U.S. company has been selling since 2020.
“Apple is expected to respond within two weeks”, he said, adding: “If they fail to do so, I am prepared to order a recall of all iPhones 12 in circulation. The rule is the same for everyone, including the digital giants.”
The European Union has set safety limits for SAR values linked to exposure to mobile phones, which could increase the risk of some forms of cancer according to scientific studies.
The French watchdog will now pass on its findings to regulators in other EU member states. “In practical terms, this decision could have a snowball effect”, said Barrot.
In 2020, France widened regulations requiring retailers to display the radiation value of products on packaging beyond cell phones, including tablets and other electronic devices.
Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Aurora Ellis
I saw the other post and figured they must be talking about some radioactive isotope that got into the manufacturing process, but no. They’re talking about fucking radio waves. Do not mix up ionizing radiation from radioactive sources with non-ionizong radiation from RF sources. One damages DNA and the other kind of slightly heats things by a fraction of a degree. You get drastically more heat by running a game and then holding it to your head, or wearing a hat.
This category is used for agents, mixtures and exposure circumstances for which there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. It may also be used when there is inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity in humans but there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals.
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This list is focusing on the hazard linked to the agents. This means that the carcinogenic agents are capable of causing cancer, but this does not take their risk into account, which is the probability of causing a cancer given the level of exposure to this carcinogenic agent.
https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CurrentPreamble.pdf
The results in this case were deemed limited by the IARC, meaning:
[…] chance, bias or confounding could not be ruled out with reasonable confidence.
https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E.pdf
Seems to me like one should expect more concrete evidence after decades of active research on the topic.
Also billions of phone users and a persistent background RF.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230630-aspartame-what-else-is-possibly-cancerous
A practically worthless designation.
iPhone 12? Aren’t they on iPhone 15 now? How many tens of millions of people are using those? A recall would be interesting.
They could just ask operators to ban based on IMEI I guess, it would be the easiest one.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
PARIS, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Apple must stop selling its iPhone 12 model in France due to above-threshold radiation levels, France’s junior minister for the digital economy told newspaper Le Parisien in an interview published on Tuesday.
France’s radiation watchdog ANFR notified Apple of its decision to ban iPhone 12 sales after it had carried out tests which showed the smartphone’s Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) was slightly higher than legally allowed, Jean-Noel Barrot told the paper.
Barrot said a software update would be sufficient to fix the radiation issues linked to the phone which the U.S. company has been selling since 2020.
“Apple is expected to respond within two weeks”, he said, adding: "If they fail to do so, I am prepared to order a recall of all iPhones 12 in circulation.
The European Union has set safety limits for SAR values linked to exposure to mobile phones, which could increase the risk of some forms of cancer according to scientific studies.
In 2020, France widened regulations requiring retailers to display the radiation value of products on packaging beyond cell phones, including tablets and other electronic devices.
The original article contains 237 words, the summary contains 187 words. Saved 21%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
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Tim Cook’s balls must be so swollen from all the EU’s kicks…
While Randy Marsh is putting a dozen in his pants
But the radiation is one of the new features!
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They did sign the CTBT in 1998, and don’t perform any test since 1996 so I don’t know what more you want.
They want pointless nuclear fearmongering, especially since they don’t understand the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
