G.L.: The origins of US safety standards for microwave radiation, Science

The procedures by which standards are set to regulate human exposure to foreign substances and radiation rarely conform to any ideal exemplar. The sci-entific data used in the decision-making process seldom lead to one set of inter-pretations, nor do they provide the clear lines of demarcation (as between hazard-ous and safe exposure levels) that stan-dards are taken to imply. The procedures recent enough to allow consultation with most of the principal parties and clear ac-cess to the surviving written record. Third, since the controversy over micro-wave exposure continues today, a sur