The Low Spark of High-Ideal bulbs

Q: How many countries does it take to screw up a light bulb?

A: More and more each year.

Required light bulbs may pose health hazard

With potatoes, green means stop
Flourescent lights in groceries cause the potatoes to produce chlorophyl and solanine. Solanine makes potatoes taste bitter and can cause digestive problems (or paralasis and coma, nice). A simple solution may be to keep potatoes in the dark, or at least out of the flourescent glare. But-

Some scientists are working on ways to suppress the production of glycoalkaloids in potato plants. Researchers have found a gene that prompts plants to make an enzyme necessary for producing glycoalkaloids. By inserting a "backwards" copy of the gene, one which interferes with the natural gene's instructions, scientists have engineered potato plants whose production of toxins is turned down.

Hell, we gotta genetically alter our spuds instead? Is it just me or are things getting too complicated with these flourescents?

Sufferers may shun eco-bulbs

The compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs, have been linked to migraines, epilepsy and the auto-immune disease lupus.
The British Association of Dermatologists has claimed the bulbs emit wavelengths of light that can trigger eczema or skin cancer in people with light-sensitive conditions.

LED Astray

Nevertheless, even if you used all fluorescents, the savings on your next light bill would hardly be noticed. Newfoundland Power says that lighting cost amounts to only four per cent of our bills. A penny saved is a penny earned, but in this case will be the price to pay for polluting the environment with deadly mercury?

These lights can be hazardous to people's health, and that they are toxic, is saving a couple cents worth it?

http://itn.co.uk/news/f6313327fa7548cc14d55c1bc7a75c59.html
Low Engery Bulbs a 'health risk'

This article goes as far as claiming that fluorescent lights can cause skin cancer. In my opinion this is an exageration. Fluorescent lights can flare up skin conditions like eczema and make a person more prone to developing skin cancer but as far as I kjnow it has not been proven that fluorescent lights can cause cancer. I doubt that fluorescent lights would be good for anyone suffering from skin cancer.