RT Journal
T1 HAzards of beryllium
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD May 28
VO 140
IS 4
SP 410
OP 410
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900390042011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900390042011
AB Public apprehension concerning the health hazards of fluorescent lights has brought another statement of facts from the Medical Advisory Committee on Beryllium.1The committee reiterates its assertion that there is no danger whatever from the lights when they are intact. The possible dangers come in the destruction of old lights. Recently there have been reports of children who cut themselves on broken lights; the cuts healed slowly, and swelling was frequent. Such cuts do not cause general sickness or spread throughout the body. Surgical care is necessary if the cut refuses to heal after a period of time.Although precautions should be taken against breathing the dust from broken fluorescent lights, records have not been published of any person's suffering injury from breathing dust after the breakage of a lamp.The safest way to dispose of used fluorescent lights is to break them out of doors in a waste