[TeMPOraL]

A banana dose is equivalent here to light bouncing from my skin directly in your open eye. Does my skin need to be FCC-approved?

I didn't expect HN of all places to fall into "radiation sounds scary therefore its bad for you" line of thinking.

[retrogradeorbit]

So why don't you try the laser experiment. Use a 1 milliwatt laser. That's _less_ energy than the light bouncing from your skin. That's nothing. And it's non ionizing radiation. So it's totally safe. Point it right in your eye. See what happens. By the completely over simplified thinking that you are undertaking here you will be fine. Right?

[TeMPOraL]

I meant that light bouncing from skin to eye is a proper analogy for banana dose.

But since you challenge me - I shined the usual ~5mW red laser pointers many times straight into the eye, and had strangers shine them at me as well. It's annoying, but it doesn't hurt. My vision is ok. I'm totally fine.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_pointer#Eye_injury.