Will Government finally act on regulating the sunbed industry?

More support today for the BMA’s calls to get the tanning industry better regulated. The independent government advisory committee Comare (Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment) says the current system, where the industry is self-regulated, is inadequate on public health grounds.

The committee’s making several recommendations to Government, many of which we’ve been wanting to see happen for a long time.

These include;

Preventing the use of sun beds by children
Ensuring that sun bed users are supervised
Ending the use of coin-operated machines

The question is, will the UK Government act on these recommendations and actually finally do something about regulating the sunbed industry properly?

When will we get a change in the law on unmanned tanning salons?

Yet another case in the media of a child suffering horrific burns as a result of using a sunbed at an unmanned salon.

I have repeated BMA policy and what we want to see happen to prevent more instances of this countless times on this blog so I won't recount it all again. But really, when will we get a ban in place on these types of premises and how many more youngsters have to go through such serious injuries before something is done?

There is something terribly amiss with the law, if a child aged just 10-years-old can access these type of places, which can have such potentially damaging consequences for their health.