On 1 Mar 2005 09:55:29 0800, Rhee wrote:
Is flourescent lighting damaging to your skin?
I'm asking because I was looking up previous threads
regarding the need to use sunscreen even when
cloudy & indoors (big surprise to me!), because of UVA
rays exposure & flourescent lights.
Well, GE says about UV from indoor lighting: "It was determined that
UV exposure from sitting indoors under fluorescent lights at typical
office light levels for an eighthour workday is equivalent to just
over a minute of exposure to the sun in Washington, D.C. on a clear
day in July."
The source study: C. Lytle, W. Cyr, J. Beer, S. Miller, R. James, R.
Landry, M. Jacobs, R. Kaczmarek, C. Sharkness, D. Gaylor, F. Gruijl,
and J. van der Leun, “An Estimation of Squamous Cell
Carcinoma Risk from Ultraviolet Radiation Emitted by Fluorescent
Lamps,” Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed 1992/1993, 9:268 (1993)