The Important Issues!

City Council Member and Manhattan Borough President hopeful Eva Moskowitz is on your side, citizen, looking out for your interests and addressing the important issues:

Researchers disagree about the relationship between cell phone use and brain cancer, and many scientific studies find no evidence supporting the link. Still, critics are concerned about radio waves from the phones, and in 1996, the federal government established a limit for the amount of radiation cell phones can emit.

One of the highest-emitting models is the popular Motorola V.120E – which exposes users to 1.59 watts per kilogram out of the maximum allowable 1.6 watts, according to Eva Moskowitz (D-Manhattan).

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“I didn’t want to be alarmist. I just wanted consumers to be educated and to make their own decisions about the possible health risks,” Moskowitz said.

Moskowitz said her list will be available beginning today at www.nyccouncil.info/. Moskowitz also called on phone companies to put SAR listings on the phone as well as the packaging.