title: The role of national and international standard setting agencies in the field of possible light damage to the eyes.
abstract: Standards consensus and standards documents are both progressively helpful and demanding in the technical world. Medical diseases have slowly moved toward parallel with absorbed units, but are greatly altered by individual variation and multifactorial etiologies. Quantitation of light energies is beset by major ambiguities of definition, measurement, and biologic responses. The input of individual scientists and their national organizations is essential for rational standards in advanced nations. When these are advanced to international (ISO) adoption they have since 1980 gained an impact of obligatory international compliance.
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D005123:Eye / Q000528:radiation effects*; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies; D008027:Light / Q000009:adverse effects*; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012449:Safety; D014481:United States