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You are here: Home / Media / UK press / Blinding light: energy-efficient fluorescent lighting may cause eye disease

Blinding light: energy-efficient fluorescent lighting may cause eye disease

November 16, 2011 Filed Under: UK press

The Conversation

“What evidence we have suggests the least hazardous approach to lighting from a health perspective is to use warm-white tubes or incandescent bulbs of lower colour temperature and longer wavelength light rather than fluorescent lamps.

Unfortunately, anything other than fluorescent lighting is considered inadequate for many workplaces and in the home.

We recommend UV filters become a required standard. Lamp manufacturers should not allow current levels of emission of UV light from fluorescent lighting to increase and should work toward reducing emissions.”

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Filed Under: UK press Tagged With: eye disease, Fluorescent lighting, UV radiation

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