Do energy-saving lamps pose a risk to some groups of patients in the EU?
In contrast to incandescent lamps, fluorescent tubes emit some ultraviolet radiation. Energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are similar in nearly all respects to fluorescent tubes which have been in widespread use in the Member States for many decades, but the types of ultraviolet radiation that they emit is slightly different. Besides ultraviolet radiation, the main causes for concern are flickering and the electromagnetic fields and blue light that these lamps produce.
The electromagnetic spectrum
showing the visible spectrum as well as ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) radiation
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