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California Code, Health and Safety Code - HSC § 109022

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

This chapter does not apply to the following:

(a) A lamp used for image capture and projection, including photocopying, printing, directly or in preprocessing, lithography, film and video projection, and holography.

(b) A lamp that has a high proportion of ultraviolet light emission and is one of the following:

(1) A lamp with high ultraviolet content that has ultraviolet power greater than two milliwatts per kilolumen (mW/klm).

(2) A lamp for germicidal use, such as the destruction of DNA, that emits a peak radiation of approximately 253.7 nanometers.

(3) A lamp used for disinfection or fly trapping from which either the radiation power emitted between 250 and 315 nanometers represents at least 5 percent of, or the radiation power emitted between 315 and 400 nanometers represents at least 20 percent of, the total radiation power emitted between 250 and 800 nanometers.

(4) A lamp used for the generation of ozone where the primary purpose is to emit radiation at approximately 185.1 nanometers.

(5) A lamp used for coral zooxanthellae symbiosis from which the radiation power emitted between 400 and 480 nanometers represents at least 40 percent of the total radiation power emitted between 250 and 800 nanometers.

(6) Any lamp used in a sunlamp product, defined as any electronic product designed to incorporate one or more ultraviolet lamps and intended for irradiation of any part of the living human body, by ultraviolet radiation with wavelengths in air between 200 and 400 nanometers, to induce skin tanning (21 CFR 1040.20(b)(9)).

(c) A lamp used for medical or veterinary diagnosis or treatment, or used in a medical device.

(d) A lamp used in pharmaceutical product manufacturing or quality control.

(e) A lamp used for spectroscopy and photometric applications, such as, for example, UV-visible spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectroscopy, nondispersive infrared (NDIR), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), medical analysis, ellipsometry, layer thickness measurement, process monitoring, or environmental monitoring.

(f) A lamp used by academic and research institutions exclusively for conducting research projects and experiments.

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