The UV cabinsare not recommended for health and increase the risk of skin cancer … no offense to tanning professionals. the Board of state did not respond favorably to the request of the National Union of Cabin Tanning Professionals and the National Confederation of Aesthetics and Perfumery. They had requested the annulment of the decree of October 2014 which relates to the content of theinformation and warnings that operators should do with tanning equipment users. Since that date, tanning professionals are in fact required to post preventive messages explaining the health risks of doing UV sessions.
The sector’s rebellion against this decree has therefore not borne fruit. The Council of State drives the point home by confirming that “the measures taken by the contested decree are not disproportionate with regard to the risks that tanning devices represent for the health and safety of consumers.”
What are these risks? The high court reminds them in its decision rendered on July 27. “The converging findings of the World Health Organization, the National Cancer Institute, the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety and the Institute for Public Health Surveillance establish a direct link between exposure to ultraviolet rays, in particular to artificial ultraviolet rays, and the occurrence of skin cancers, in particular melanoma “.
Info users of tanning devices: the works council rejects, for the most part, 1 request against the decree of 20/10/2014: https://t.co/5Ee3vteyn5
– Council of State (@Conseil_Etat) July 27, 2016
A canceled mention on the skin risk assessment
The only “flower” granted to the protesters concerns a sentence of the decree that the Council of State has decided to annul for inaccuracy. This statement affirmed that “from the first exposure to tanning equipment, the risk of developing skin cancer increases by 60%”. However, recognizes the Council of State, this one “suggests that one exposure is enough for the risk to increase by 60% whereas this figure corresponds to an average relating to users of which a part was exposed more once. In addition, he specifies that this figure of 60% could only be correctly interpreted by consumers if the rate of increased risk was also specified “.
Concretely, the professionals of the sector are no longer obliged to include in the warnings given to their customers that “from the first exposure to tanning devices, the risk of developing skin cancer increases by 60%”.
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