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Radiation Exposure Overview - Microwave Ovens and the Public

Marvin Rosenstein, Warren A. Brill, Charles K. Showalter · 1969

Field surveys of 494 microwave oven units found that 109 units, or 22 percent, emitted radiation greater than 10 mW/cm² under normal operating conditions. Laboratory measurements demonstrated that power densities exceeding 700 mW/cm² could be produced if door safety interlocks failed or were defeated and the door was wide open. No specific performance standard for microwave oven exposure had been promulgated at the time of the report. Known human bioeffects from microwave exposure at levels of several mW/cm² to several hundred mW/cm² included temporary sterility in males, eye cataracts, and blood changes. A single case report described a microwave oven repairman with a recurrent hemorrhagic eruption that was suggested as possibly caused by microwave energy from microwave ovens.

Whole Body / General
Not an original health-effects study

BIOMEDICAL ASPECTS OF RADIO FREQUENCY AND MICROWAVE RADIATION: A REVIEW OF SELECTED SOVIET, EAST EUROPEAN, AND WESTERN REFERENCES

Zorach R. Glaser, Christopher H. Dodge · 1969

The review compared Soviet and East European literature with Western literature and found a major disagreement over whether nonthermal effects occur below 10 mW/cm2. Occupational exposure standards reflected this divide, with the Soviet limit at 0.01 mW/cm2 and the U.S. limit at 10 mW/cm2 for continuous exposure. Western research was beginning to investigate effects below 10 mW/cm2, but the review noted persistent dosimetry and control-group problems in epidemiological studies.

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