The larger mogal HID's seem to be OK, no warnings... The smaller they are it seems to be more of an issue. Just got done with some Lightoiler track with HID fixures.
Had to rubber glove all of them, or clean with alcohol. Still had a few of the 150 of them pop.
http://www.lighting.philips.com/nam/products/hid/p5575.php Read the bottom of this page...
Another story about HID's, this good! We do showrooms for furnature and antique dealers, and for some reason the lighting designers haven't figured out that this type of lighting isn't Kosher for items that color fade. We've done a bunch of showrooms with them recently, all complain that it "burns" the furnature. One place had a $50,000 table, with a perminent place setting burned into it from these!
The UV is sooo high, I would imagine, that prolonged exposed could lead to skin cancer...
[This message has been edited by e57 (edited 07-12-2004).]
