CTIA urged the FCC to reject a petition...
CTIA urged the FCC to reject a petition for reconsideration filed in July by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) objecting to the FCC’s reclassification of the outer ear as not subject to specific absorption rate limits for radiation from…
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cellphones (http://fcc.us/13SvTNS) under the agency’s radio frequency rules. “Unlike the Trial Lawyers, CTIA strongly supports the Commission’s decision in the First [report and order] to classify the pinna as an extremity based on the expert determinations of the [Food and Drug Administration] and of the IEEE, and the Commission’s conclusion that this specification has no practical effect on human exposure to RF energy permitted by the FCC’s rules,” CTIA said (http://bit.ly/19M0u0o). “Because the Commission’s inclusion of the pinna with the ankles, wrists, feet, and hands for purposes of RF [radio frequency] exposure compliance was properly guided by the recommendations of federal agencies and organizations with expertise in measuring RF exposure and evaluating its environmental effects,” CTIA said the FCC should reject AAJ’s petition.