Can Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs Give You Cancer?

"It's all in the dose." When the government is trying to cover their a**e*, they pull out the dose argument. In other areas, they won't hear of such a thing. How many tiny pseudo-hazards have they argued that ANY exposure is virtually lethal, in order to justify massive regulation? (their jobs).

Aside from the issue that most of the public is uninformed about these issues, we can be almost certain that most of the bulbs would end up in a landfill even with public education. Far too many people fail to recycle even with curbside pick-up, so we can be pretty certain that most are not going to collect these bulbs and take the time to drive them to the county HAZMAT collection location.

Incandescent bulbs do not have mercury in them. I am shocked at the misinformation. Either the official interviewed is misleading the public or himself ill-informed or the reporter provided misinformation and neglected to fact check or edit her own report. It is in fact the CFL bulbs that have mercury contained in them adding to the UV exposure concerns. Incandescent bulbs are a concern only in that they burn more energy and that they leave glass shards when broken. In theory incandescent bulbs are said to release more mercury directly into the environment due to the energy required to use them, but the trade-off of course is having possible mercury emitted directly into our home environments. While breaking these bulbs maybe rare for a home with only adult residents, families with children have more of a risk. Unfortunately, families will no longer have the ability to choose what may be best for their own home. There has been so much talk about the environmental friendliness of these encouraged bulbs, but we need to consider a few things that make them very unfriendly to our environment. As concerned as congress seems to be over our health, *coughing* you would think they would have a vast campaign to inform the public about: 1. These bulbs are dangerous if they break. A dangerous vapor is emitted into the air and extra precautions need to be taken if one should break and during clean-up. http://epa.gov/cfl/cflcleanup.html 2. These bulbs should not be thrown away in typical trash collection. The should be recycled at an approved HAZMAT recycling center so that they do not pose a public health threat to water supplies in a landfill.

Excuse me, I did not know after all these years that incandescent light bulbs had mercury in them. May I ask you to fact-check that? This goes to show that the fools in Congress should not rush in where angels fear to tread.

Everything now gives us cancer