/oss/taxonomy/term/2137/all en /oss/article/controversial-science-health-household-products-quackery/microwaves-and-blood <p style="text-align:justify">There is a lot of nonsense that goes around about microwaves. I’m sure you heard many of them. They destroy nutrients in food. They cause cancer if you stand next to a microwave oven. Microwaved water kills plants. All poppycock. And then there is the story about a woman who died because the blood she received in a transfusion had been warmed up in a microwave oven? The case of Norma Levitt is an interesting one and is often used by anti-microwave activists to prove that microwaves are dangerous. This case proves nothing of the sort. Here are the facts.</p> Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:59:15 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2329 at /oss