{"id":150,"date":"2009-01-28T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-01-29T01:30:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T05:30:41","slug":"warnings-on-brain-warmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Warnings on brain-warmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bell.ca\/web\/common\/all_languages\/all_regions\/catalog_images\/large\/64294.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bell.ca\/web\/common\/all_languages\/all_regions\/catalog_images\/large\/64294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bell.ca\/web\/common\/all_languages\/all_regions\/catalog_images\/large\/64294.jpg\"><\/a>CHRIS SORENSEN<\/p>\n<p>BUSINESS REPORTER<\/p>\n<p>As many as 129,000 cellphones made by Korean conglomerate LG are being recalled across Canada because they may not meet federal guidelines for radio frequency exposure.<\/p>\n<p>The voluntary recall was issued after tests found the LG 150, a black flip phone, did not meet Industry Canada specifications for radio frequency emissions, resulting in the device being decertified.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/Business\/article\/578317\"> TheStar.com | Business | Company recalls LG 150 cellphones<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing for a company to release a product that doesn&#8217;t meet the needs or \u00a0expectations of their users, it is a whole other thing when they release a product that is a potential health hazard. The LG 150 may be one of hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/archivesearch?as_ldate=2004&amp;as_hdate=2009&amp;q=cell+phone+radiation&amp;lnav=od&amp;btnG=Search\" target=\"_blank\">canary corpses<\/a> in the mobility coalmine.<\/p>\n<p>Does it even matter when health warnings on\u00a0mobile\u00a0phones are substantiated? People keep using them anyway, just like people continue to eat junk food and drink and drive. For better or worse, cell phones have replaced the cigarette as the ubiquitous vice\u00a0accessory. And just like tobacco, governments are in no hurry to act on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icems.eu\/resolution.htm\" target=\"_blank\">warnings<\/a> from the scientific community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRIS SORENSEN BUSINESS REPORTER As many as 129,000 cellphones made by Korean conglomerate LG are being recalled across Canada because they may not meet federal guidelines for radio frequency exposure. The voluntary recall was issued after tests found the LG 150, a black flip phone, did not meet Industry Canada specifications for radio frequency emissions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/designforpeople.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}