Harkin Wants Information on Radiation Exposure From Cellphone Models to Be More Available

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Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) has pledged continued exploration of the issue of the health effects of cellphone use and said that he would find a way to make specific absorption rate (S AR) data for individual wireless phones more readily available.rnSen. Harkin, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and related agencies, made those commitments Sept. 14 toward the end of a hearing that he said was intended to determine whether more National Institutes of Health studies on cellphones should be funded and whether there are "precautions we should be taking now" to reduce exposure to radiation from cellphones.rnHe also compared the current debate over cellphone studies and what they demonstrate to "this country's experience with cigarettes," in which "decades passed" between the first warnings about possible associated health risks and "a final determination."