FDA Wants Warning Labels On Tanning Beds
Indoor Tanning U.S. Food and Drug Administration It also wants tanning lamps reclassified as moderate risk devices. Hey, kids! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants you to know that it doesn't recommend tanning beds to those of you under 18. And it'd like to require tanning lamp manufacturers to carry that warning, although it won't legally prohibit minors from tanning. The agency is publishing a proposal on Thursday (until then, you can find a pre-publication version at the link) with a few new rules it wants for tanning lamps. Other changes include reclassifying the lamps as moderate risk devices, instead of low-risk devices, and requiring manufacturers to submit performance tests to the FDA. The FDA's number-one concern about the lamps is melanoma, the rarest, but deadliest, of the three types of skin cancer. The American Academy of Dermatology, which supports the FDA action, has found that those who tan indoors have...