EU general lighting standards will be implemented soon to increase biosafety requirements

The new general standard EN60598-1:2015 in October 20, 2017 will be the end of the transition period and enforcement, the short version of EN60598-1:2008 before doing more technical revision, including some important technical change, the biggest change is the biological safety first into the mandatory standard requirements. If you use the lighting standards, including LED, metal halide lamp and some special tungsten halide lamp light source does not relieve the retinal hazard assessment, according to the IEC/TR62778:2012 "biological safety assessment of blue light damage and light lamps application" assessment, and should not be light blue light hazard group of more than RG2. In 2016, for example, the value of China's LED lamps exported to the EU is as high as $about 2000000000. Once the product quality does not meet the standard requirements, the European Union market sampling and notification, will be removed or destroyed, and other severe penalties, so that enterprises suffer economic losses, and even blacklisted. Therefore, for the standard change version, involving the vast number of export enterprises should raise awareness and pay close attention to the relevant work.

The effect of blue light on the human eye

The light in nature is made up of different colors of spectrum, and different wavelengths show different colors visually. Physics studies have shown that the shorter the wavelength, the higher the energy, the stronger the penetration. Therefore, people will pay special attention to the shorter wavelength of blue light on the human eye. According to insiders, blue light may have effects on three aspects: one is the high content of blue eye may cause visual fatigue increase; two is the eye physiological development may influence; three is operating in this light environment for a long time, old age will increase human induced macular possibility. Therefore, for the protection of National Consumers' personal safety, and effectively prevent the blue light hazard, the EU will take the lead in the light of biological safety to the mandatory standard height, is expected in other countries and regions will gradually follow the implementation.

Specific requirements for Biosafety

The new standard involves light biological requirements, mainly reflected in the following two aspects: first, increase the chapter 3.2.23, do not watch the light source logo; two is to increase the chapter 4.24 light biological safety. Photobiological Safety requirements include radiation intensity, radiation intensity, and according to the test data of the product harm classification, including 0 kinds of risk (RG0 exemption level) and 1 kinds of risk (low risk RG1), 2 kinds of risk (RG2 risk) and 3 kinds of risk (high RG3) a total of 4 level. In addition, the new standard also introduced IEC/TR62778:2012 "light source and lamp light biological safety blue light damage assessment application", specifically for retinal blue light hazards carried out the following provisions:

The luminaire does not use RG0, unlimited or RG1 unrestricted light source, or the luminaire used for complete assembly is RG0, unlimited or RG1 unrestricted grade, blue hazard is not applicable;

For fixed luminaires, follow the IEC/TR62778 additional evaluation to find the distance between the luminaire RG2 and the RG1 boundary Xm and need to be marked and illustrated;

More than 1 types of dangerous mobile luminaires and hand held lamps need to be labeled "Do not stare at light source, not light source" sign.

To this end, the inspection and quarantine departments to remind the relevant lamps exports to the EU's production enterprises: one is to advance the organization and technical personnel to study on the new standard, seize the first mover advantage, as soon as possible to grasp the new changes, with particular attention to the biological safety requirements issued for the first time. The two is to modify or design to meet the new requirements of the standard products, and as soon as possible with the third party laboratory qualification, completes the inspection and test of products before export, to obtain the valid certificate, prepared in the European Union before the end of the transition period. Three is in the actual production of the whole process of quality control, to ensure that each batch of goods quality in line with the requirements of the importing country, avoid the quality defects lead to product exports blocked.

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