The products here..

That site is affiliated with another SAD light retailer; and suprise, surprise, they recommend only all of the products which they retail.

Besides certified medical products are all about health and safety aspects like not posing electrical hazards and whether they are made of materials which can be cleaned easily for infection control purposes - nothing actually relating to providing effective SAD treatment.

I'll think you'll find Lumie's products are also certified medical devices, but their competitor doesn't want to advertise that fact.

Become a free member, and see what happens next.

The site is just a marketing front end for Internet Fusion Ltd pretending to be a non-commercial, advisory oginisation to either get potential customers' contact details, or refer potential customers via the only clickable manufacturer link to the consortium of retailers which use their marketing and hosting services.

Besides virtually all of the products listed have never been used in registered clinical trials. Those that have were only used in small scale, and very questionable trials.

SAD.org.uk are not a registered charity such as the SAD Association: www.sada.org.uk.

SAD.org.uk is a domain owned by the company Internet Fusion Ltd.

Only Just thought to check the SADA website http://www.sada.org.uk/about-SADA.html which contains the following:

"Important Notice

Please note that SADA is in no way linked to or affiliated with www.sad.org.uk - SADA is the UK’s only registered charity dedicated to SAD.

www.sad.org.uk is owned by a company called Internet Fusion, who also own a profit making website www.sad-lighting.co.uk which sells light boxes for those affected by SAD.

The similarity of website addresses between SADA, the charity, and www.sad.org.uk, which has commercial links, remains a regrettable source of confusion for the public.

Any light therapy products or treatments for SAD which SADA recommends are in no way influenced by commercial considerations."


By your actions here I am begining to suspect that you may have commercial linke to Internet Fusion yourself Very sad. If you simply looked around Lumie's website you would have already seen that they state that their products comply with the European Medical Devices Directive and more:

http://www.lumie.com/about/quality

Lumie's claims are just as valid as those for the products listed on sad.org.uk, since both only state the compliance and don't provide any evidence for proof - such as electronic copies of the certifications.

The main thing about Medical Device certification is that it can only be granted against individual products that have sound scientific research to back them up. When we design a new product we can only (legitimately) claim it's, for example, a treatment for SAD, if we can supply clinical evidence to support it. There are some companies who claim their lights will treat SAD but if they are not Medical Devices then you really have no guarantee that the light is bright enough, of the right kind etc. So always look for that when you're buying a light. All Lumie products are :)

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