LRC Response to the American Medical Association (AMA) Report on LED Lighting

LRC Response to the American Medical Association (AMA) Report on LED Lighting
Published on Mar 21, 2017 by Lighting Research Center (LRC)

This LRC presentation responds to the AMA report’s implications of melatonin suppression and circadian disruption effects from LED lighting.  Bottom line is after 48:00 in the presentation.

Presented by Lighting Research Center scientists Dr. Mark Rea and Dr. Mariana Figueiro on March 15, 2017, this webinar addresses the American Medical Association (AMA) report cautioning the public about the use of In-Ga-N based LEDs. This webinar provides: practical, scientific advice to address the issues raised in the AMA report; direction on correctly and accurately measuring and specifying indoor and outdoor lighting; and guidance to address the problems of misapplying short-hand metrics to the topic of the health and environmental impacts of light and lighting.