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February 1969 Radio-Electronics
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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics.
See articles from Radio-Electronics,
published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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 Governments are historically fond of creating
laws, standards, regulations, codes, ordinances, directives, notices, prohibitions,
restrictions, bylaws, ordinances, and all other manner of ways to control our lives
- all for our own good, don't you know. Sometimes those impositions are useful,
and other times - maybe most times - they are just forms of control to keep the
figurative boot on the equally figurative throats of the
proletariat. According to this 1969 issue of Radio-Electronics magazine,
the U.S. Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare has recently been ordered to create standards for maximum radio
frequency radiation exposure levels for various commercial electronic products.
The move was largely driven by concerns over radiation from
color televisions
x-ray emission from super high voltage cathode ray tube (CRT) biases, and from
microwave ovens, both of which were relatively new household appliances.
New Radiation Standards Set
  Washington. D.C. - Standards for hazardous
radiation from commercial electronic products are now under federal study. New legislation
directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to set and control radiation
standards for all kinds of electronic products. The new law grew out of federal
investigations that revealed dangerous radiation leakage and potential hazards in
a number of products. In addition to excessive X-ray radiation from some color TV
sets, studies showed that 24 of 30 microwave ovens at a U.S. medical center leaked
potentially hazardous radiation, that about two-thirds of some 112,000 X-ray machines
did not meet current standards, and that dangerous lasers are readily available
to the general public.
Posted March 30, 2023
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