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Apple Iphone12 Exceeding European Legal Electromagnetic Radiation Levels
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In a previous life, I used to be involved with emc compliance for my employer’s products. Being a large multinational company they had the facilities to make the required measurements, ensuring compliance with legal emission levels.
Enforcement is carried out by organisations such as the one in France (ANFR) who have reported their findings on the iPhone 12, leading to France banning the sale of the model and other countries possibly following suit (as detailed in the article).
Theoretically Apple could be required to recall all iphone 12s sold in Europe, but if ANFR’s findings are upheld, it is more likely that Apple will be heavily fined.
Nowhere in these news stories is the potential danger to UK users using these phones; despite having left the EU, our electromagnetic radiation limits are the same as the EU’s.
European States are keen on protecting their citizens from potentially dangerous products placed on the market, but I doubt the UK authorities have any similar worries.
Let us see in the coming days and weeks whether the UK authorities will take an interest in protecting your health or not.
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I doubt there is one level below which there is health and above which is doom. Limits are inevitably subjective decisions. One wonders how strict things have been set and whether a 40% excess is a genuine concern.
Not that Apple should ignore a nations specs anyway. Maybe a recall might be a good lesson for a global merchant, running fast & loose with the rules, to learn.
Yoou must find it quite stressful surely worrying about things that may or may bot happen that you have no control over and wont affect you personally... and you have little faith in your elected representatives to do the right thing or in your fellow Brits to make decisions for them self about what phone to buy and what risks to accept
I reckon that I know a thing or two about emc too. (As a licensed radio amateur, I'm required to calculate and record the amount of electromagnetic energy that people near to my antennas might be exposed to).
If someone would be kind enough to gift me an iPhone 12, I certainly wouldn't have any major concerns over the amount of non-ionising radiation coming from it. At probably no more than 2 watts maximum power, I can't see that it would fry my brain.
After all, I've got a got a 5 watt VHF/UHF handheld transceiver on my desk and my HF wire antenna (for my 20 watt transceiver) starts just above my head here in my bedroom.
The only real risk from non-ionising radiation is that from RF burns which, at low power levels, could only occur if one was actually touching the antenna. That's not possible with a modern mobile phone, where the antenna is embedded into it.
Since radiation follows the inverse-square law, a phone held against your ear transmitting at 2W will have a higher signal strength zapping your brain than a 5W rf source at a distance of 1m, or a 20W rf source at 2m.
Even so, I wouldn’t go putting my head close to a 5W rf source – the experts who have set the safe exposure limits didn’t just randomly pick a value.
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