Color Television
Americans who owned color televisions were cautioned by the U.S. government to stay at least 6 feet (1.8 m) away from their sets when watching TV, « and to stay away from the sides and the back of the set » because of unsafe levels of radiation. The United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare issued the warning after a report that 1,000 of 5,000 color TV sets in Suffolk County, New York « were emitting more than the accepted level of radiation » of 0.5 milliroentgens of x-ray and gamma ray radiation per hour.