Belgium questions Apple’s iPhone 12 after France suspends sales over radiation

Belgium’s junior minister for the digital economy said he would ask the telecoms regulator to analyse potential health risks linked to Apple’s iPhone 12 after France ordered a halt to sales citing breaches of radiation exposure limits.

“It is my duty to make sure all citizens … are safe”, Mathieu Michel, state secretary for digitalisation, said in a statement emailed to Reuters on Thursday.

Apple on Wednesday said the iPhone 12, launched in 2020, was certified by multiple international bodies as compliant with global radiation standards, that it had provided several Apple and third-party lab results proving the phone’s compliance to the French agency, and that it was contesting its findings.