If you stand near a microwave oven, looking at your food, is it dangerous

If you stand near a microwave oven, looking at your food, is it dangerous—tissue damage or make you blind?

Properly built and undamaged microwave ovens leak so few microwaves that they aren’t dangerous at all. Even if they did leak enough to be in violation of the safety limits, those safety limits are very conservative. While there is no reason to court disaster by holding your face right up to the microwave for hours and hours, it shouldn’t hurt you at all.

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