Breaking a lamp is unlikely to have any impact on your health. The effects of the exposure to mercury from a broken energy SAVER to the human BODY are so to speak not measurable. Only if several lamps would break every day, and you would be EXPOSED to all of the mercury, there could be a health concern that needs to be assessed. A Cfi contains LESS than 5mg mercury per lamp. By comparison, a typical thermometer, which we used to use, has between 500 and 3.000 milligrams of mercury, depending on its size. It would take 100 fluorescent lamps to equal that amount.

Breaking a lamp is unlikely to have any impact on your health. The effects of the exposure to mercury from a broken energy saver to the human body are so to speak not measurable. Only if several lamps would break every day, and you would be exposed to all of the mercury, there could be a health concern that needs to be assessed. A Cfi contains less than 5mg mercury per lamp. By comparison, a typical thermometer, which we used to use, has between 500 and 3.000 milligrams of mercury, depending on its size. It would take 100 fluorescent lamps to equal that amount.