AMA report affirms human health impacts from LEDs

A groundbreaking report recently released by the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Science and Public Health affirms known and suspected impacts to human health and the environment caused by light emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit excessive amounts of blue light. The AMA report, titled "Human and Environmental Effects of Light Emitting Diode Community Lighting," unanimously approved by representatives of the Association's entire membership, supports concerns raised by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) for more than five years. The report presents significant implications for the ongoing, worldwide transition to LEDs as the outdoor lighting technology of choice.