Are UV lamps used for curing Shellac nails safe?

I’ve just had my first Shellac manicure and I am loving it. Instead of the nail polish

Manicure gloves to stop UV

beginning to chip of in the first 2 days, so far 5 days later the nail polish looks as good as the minute after it was applied. It’s magic!

Because of the bad publicity on sun tanning beds, I started to wonder if the UV lamp used to cure the polish (or gel) was safe. Here’s an extract from an article  I read recently.

Gel manicures also require drying with an ultra-violet, or UV, lamp in between each coat and at the end to set the gel. The ultra-violet light used in tanning beds has been associated with increased skin cancer risk, but is there a risk with gel manicures?

“Most cancers on the hands are found in people with extensive sun exposure,” says Zoe Draelos, a dermatologist in High Point, North Carolina, “It’s the cumulative lifetime exposure to UV light that is the risk.”

A case study by Austin-based University of Texas researchers in the “Archives of Dermatology” in April 2009 reported that two women developed non-melanoma skin cancer – cancer that occurs in the outer layer of the skin – on the tops of their hands from exposure to nail lamps. Both women were middle-aged, otherwise healthy, and had no cancer history. This does not prove that UV nail lamps definitely cause skin cancer; larger clinical studies will be necessary to determine a link. source

Still, Draelos recommends using UV nail lamps in as limited a fashion as possible.

Another option may be to look for a salon that uses LED (light emitting diode) instead of UV dryers. This month, the New York City-based Shizuka salon began using LED dryers made by the Japanese company Nail Labo.

So the information is inconclusive, however here is a product from Amazon that will put my mind a rest.