TY  - JOUR
T1  - HAzards of beryllium
Y1  - 1949/05/28
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900390042011
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 410
EP  - 410
VL  - 140
IS  - 4
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900390042011
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900390042011
ER  -