France Halts Sales of This iPhone Over Radiation Levels

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We’ve all been using smartphones for years, with the iPhone no doubt being the best selling device ever made. However, a French watchdog agency has announced that one generation of the devices releases too much radiation. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00 We've all been using smartphones for years, with the iPhone no doubt being the best-selling

00:04 device ever made.

00:05 However, now a French watchdog agency has announced that the iPhone 12 releases too

00:10 much radiation.

00:11 The group, called the ANFR, measured the smartphone's specific absorption rate, or SAR, finding

00:16 that it was above the legal threshold in the country.

00:19 The phone has been on sale around the globe since 2020, but it was only now noticed.

00:23 The iPhone 12 will now be discontinued for sale within France.

00:26 However, the country's economic minister says a simple software update should fix the issue.

00:31 The European Union has set strict limits on the SAR value of cell phones over fears that

00:36 exposure could lead to increased cancer risks, meaning the French findings could soon lead

00:40 to massive iPhone 12 sales halts on the continent.

00:44 France in particular requires companies to mark their products with explicit radiation

00:48 values, allowing consumers to know how much exposure they can expect.

00:51 If you are concerned about your iPhone, regulators say this was likely due to a recent sample

00:56 software update and should be fixed soon.

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