{"id":21336,"date":"2013-01-17T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/sunbed-users-double-radiation-000908389.html"},"modified":"2013-01-17T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T00:09:08","slug":"sunbed-users-get-double-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/sunbed-users-get-double-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunbed users &#8216;get double radiation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">The majority of sunbeds expose users to double the radiation safety limits, increasing their risk of skin cancer, new research has found.<\/p>\n<p>Ultraviolet (UV) radiation limits are set at 0.3 watts per square metre (Wm2) for sunbeds in Europe but tests by scientists found that hundreds exceed that level.<\/p>\n<p>But the Sunbed Association said the research is &#8220;two years out of date&#8221; and that all new units manufactured since April 2009, when the level was introduced, are compliant with the limit.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the University of Dundee tested 402 sunbeds between October 2010 and February 2011 and found that only 10% complied with the safety limits. The rest had average UV radiation levels of around 0.6Wm2.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Harry Moseley, consultant medical physicist at University of Dundee and leader of the research, said: &#8220;The development of high-power sunlamps, along with clear failures of the sunbed industry to regulate themselves effectively, is putting young people at an even greater risk of skin cancer than we previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that these findings will make people think twice before using sunbeds as you can&#8217;t be sure how much radiation you&#8217;re exposing yourself to when you try to top up a tan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senior health information officer at Cancer Research UK, Yinka Ebo, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s worrying to see that so many sunbeds are not meeting the safety standards. This strengthens our advice that using a sunbed just isn&#8217;t worth it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sunbed Association represents the companies which manufacture and operate tanning stations. Gary Lipman, association chairman, said: &#8220;The findings of this study are two years out of date. If the study was undertaken today, the results would be dramatically different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sunbeds have been required to have a maximum UV output since 2009 and the Sunbed Association has been working with its members, non-members and the enforcement departments within local authorities since that time to inform about the change in UV emission levels, advise how to become compliant and ensure compliance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research was funded by Cancer Research UK and appears in the British Journal of Dermatology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of sunbeds expose users to double the radiation safety limits, increasing their risk of skin cancer, new research has found.<br \/>\nUltraviolet (UV) radiation limits are set at 0.3 watts per square metre (Wm2) for sunbeds in Europe but tests by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}