Can halogen lamps cause cancer?!
Question: I recently bought one. It's says it's got a "UV filter" on the front. What's the deal with them?
Answers: I recently bought one. It's says it's got a "UV filter" on the front. What's the deal with them?
Yes, especially is the bulb has a tiny crack near the socket and you do not know about it. At a local school where the lighting was by Halide lights one classroom had damaged Halide bulbs. All the teachers that taught daily in that classroom ended up with damaged eyes. Several teachers were hurt so badly that they could no longer teach.
This danger is why the UV filter is present on almost all Halide and Halogen bulbs now being sold.
Are your halogens naked? - ultraviolet light from halogen lamps induces skin tumors in hairless mice - Brief Article
Science News, Oct 15, 1994
Two years ago, scientists at the University of Genoa in Italy reported in a letter to NATURE data indicating that ultraviolet light from tungsten halogen quartz lamps could induce skin lesions. Their findings came from three gene-toxicity tests and a carcinogenicity assay in 12 mice. Francesco D'Agostini and Silvio De Flora now update that report with data from five separate experiments involving 243 rodents. Their new work demonstrates the ability of halogen light to induce skin tumors in three strains of hairless mice.
Electrical fields can cause cancer. More specifically, this includes electrical fields created by computers.
But yeah, the answer is no.
high doses of uv light can cause skin cancer, but a halogen lightbulb is nothing to worry about.