It is the first time Apple has been affected by such a move. Smartphone radiation tests have so far led to 42 sales stops in the country. The limits - based on the risk of burns or heatstroke from the phone's radiation - are already set ten times below the level where scientists found evidence of harm.Ĭroft said the French findings could differ from those recorded by other regulators because ANFR assesses radiation with a method that assumes direct skin contact, without intermediate textile layers, between the device and user.Ī French government source also said the French test was different from the method used by Apple. "From a health and safety point of view, it is not as if this is putting anyone at risk," said Professor Rodney Croft, the chair of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), which sets global guidelines on the SAR limits. Industry experts said there were no safety risks as regulatory limits on SAR were set well below levels where scientists have found evidence of harm. The watchdog said it would send agents to Apple stores and other distributors to check the model was no longer being sold and a failure to act would result in the recall of iPhone 12s already sold to consumers. According to the World Health Organisation, no adverse health effects have so far been established as being caused by mobile phone use.įrance's Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR) told Apple on Tuesday to halt iPhone12 sales in France after tests that it said showed the phone's Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)- a gauge of the rate of radiofrequency energy absorbed by the body from a piece of equipment - was higher than legally allowed. Researchers have conducted a vast number of studies over the last two decades to assess health risks resulting from mobile phones. I had hoped this app would be closer to what SBS was some years ago, when Lee Lin Chin didn’t pretend to speak anything other than English.īrowsing the negative reviews, there’s no developer replies.Apple said in a statement the iPhone 12, launched in 2020, was certified by multiple international bodies as compliant with global radiation standards, that it had provided several Apple and third-party lab results proving the phone's compliance to the French agency, and that it was contesting its findings. Hearing the US film director Martin Scorsese’s name pronounced in some unfathomable way that I’m sure even Mr Scorsese wouldn’t understand, was when I stopped watching SBS news on TV. Makes you look the class nurd trying painfully hard to impress others, and failing. It’s painfully obvious presenters can’t speak Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French, ad infinitum, so why pretend you can. I don’t have to listen to presenters trying pronounce foreign names or places as though it were their native language. This app was quickly relegated to the second group page of news apps, and eventually deleted, after deciding to give it one more chance to impress. Personally, I’d rather read articles at my own pace, which is somewhat faster than waiting for videos to load (which often they don’t), then scrubbing through videos to get to the meat of the story. Highly reliant on video content after introductory heading.
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