From January 1, 2014, Canada would formally disable 75W and 100W incandescent light bulbs, 40 and 60 watt bulbs will also completely disabled on December 31, 2014.
Meanwhile, the Canadian manufacturers would stop providing incandescent light bulbs to retailers, the incandescent light bulbs will no longer appear at Canadian retail malls, Canadians can only buy fluorescent lamps or LED light bulbs. Thus, the history of the incandescent light bulb coming to an end in North America.
However, not all incandescent light bulbs can not be used, there are places that can be used, such as oven and refrigerator bulbs must use incandescent light bulbs, this two parts of bulbs can not be replaced by other bulbs.
Although some people worry about the UV light of fluorescent lamps and LED light bulbs may affect human health, but Health Canada says radiation released by bulbs are the same, people just keep a distance of 30 cm when the lamp is on , will not be affected by the ultraviolet light.
Health Canada also recommends people that no matter what kind of light bulbs, if used daily, should ensure that the exposure time under light no more than three consecutive hours.
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