Why doesn't Nokia mention Lumia 920s SAR values ?

I bought the new shiny Lumia 920 windows phone. After using it for over a day I noticed that the battery gets drained out too quickly. Also, I noticed that amount of static charge my body gets since I started working with Lumia 920 is quite more than before. 
I am concerned about the SAR rating Lumia 920 has in India. What concerned me more was the fact that when I looked into Nokia's website, they didn't publish the SAR rating. I should have checked this before, but why is the SAR rating of Lumia phones not mentioned in Nokia's website ?
http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/people-and-planet/emf-health/sar/sar-information/ 
-Pranav

pranavkojha wrote:
Also, I noticed that amount of static charge my body gets since I started working with Lumia 920 is quite more than before.
http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/people-and-planet/emf-health/sar/sar-information/ 
No offense but this just seems ridiculous... Why would you get more static in your body beacuse of a phones SAR value? It just seems very far fetched.

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