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Mobile phone maker Ericsson and the industry organisation Mobiltelebranschen are highly critical of the handset labelling scheme proposed by labelling specialist TCO Development. However, the Swedish Consumer Agency (Konsumentverket), welcomes the scheme and finds the requirements more relevant than existing international recommendations.
The environmental and health labelling scheme for mobile phones proposed by TCO Development is being severely criticised by the mobile phone manufacturer Ericsson. Company spokesman Mikael Westmark tells Elektroniktidningen that the proposal doesn't contribute anything new. He says:
"The European CE scheme already includes both radiation and environmental effect criteria."
Also, the industry organisation Mobiltelebranschen (MBT) is critical of TCO Development's proposed radiation limit for mobile phones.
"We find it unfortunate that TCO Development has chosen to set the limit for the SAR value at 0,8W/g when the international WHO recommendation states 2W/g," says MBT's CEO Lennart Uhlmann.
Both MBT and Ericsson argue that TCO Development's proposed labelling scheme will lead to confusion. And according to Ericsson, international efforts aimed at creating common standards for mobile phones are already underway.
However, Anders Odell at the Swedish Consumer Agency's test lab is positive towards the proposal. He says:
"WHO's recommendations are a few years old and the limits are unnecessarily high. The limits need to be lowered in order to further reduce radiation and its effects."
"The European CE scheme already includes both radiation and environmental effect criteria."
Also, the industry organisation Mobiltelebranschen (MBT) is critical of TCO Development's proposed radiation limit for mobile phones.
"We find it unfortunate that TCO Development has chosen to set the limit for the SAR value at 0,8W/g when the international WHO recommendation states 2W/g," says MBT's CEO Lennart Uhlmann.
Both MBT and Ericsson argue that TCO Development's proposed labelling scheme will lead to confusion. And according to Ericsson, international efforts aimed at creating common standards for mobile phones are already underway.
However, Anders Odell at the Swedish Consumer Agency's test lab is positive towards the proposal. He says:
"WHO's recommendations are a few years old and the limits are unnecessarily high. The limits need to be lowered in order to further reduce radiation and its effects."
Gittan Cedervall
