August 01, 2013 – While at Lightfair 2013, EBMag caught up with Intertek’s Carl Bloomfield, the company’s global director of business services for lighting, and asked him to explain a few things about LED lighting from an unbiased, third-party perspective… and he did not disappoint.

In this video, Carl discusses the importance of third-party validation specifically for LED lighting products, and gets into some of the market-adoption issues LED products face, such as interoperability with existing lighting architectures. Most importantly, he provides tips on buying LED lighting products with which you’ll be satisfied.