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Health department says city monitoring keeps cellphone-antenna emissions far below federal limits; residents ask for task force
Summary
San Francisco Department of Public Health told the Planning Commission that radiofrequency emissions from cellular antennas meet FCC limits and city monitoring shows ground'level exposure generally at about 1% (up to 10%) of that threshold; residents urged a task force to study cumulative and child exposure.
San Francisco's Department of Public Health told the Planning Commission on June 10 that the city's review and monitoring program keeps radiofrequency (RF) emissions from cellular antennas well within federal safety limits.
Director of Environmental Health Rajeev Bhatia summarized decades of scientific study and the local controls that apply to base stations, saying RF radiation is non'ionizing and that established harms are thermal effects at high exposures. He said federal exposure standards — enforced by the Federal Communications Commission — set anchors that the city uses; San Francisco…
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