People in Arun district given sunbed warning

Chief environmental health officer Paul Unsworth is keen to see more controls on sunbed operators in the Arun district.
By The Newsroom
Published 6th Aug 2009, 15:48 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:09 BST

Mr Unsworth has backed a stark warning about the use of the beds. The Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment states using them causes cancer.

The risk of getting the most deadly form of skin cancer, melanoma, has been found to be increased by 75 per cent in people who started using sunbeds regularly before the age of 30.

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Mr Unsworth says he wants to tackle rogues within the trade and will be backing national calls for improvements such as licensing of operators, prohibition of access for under-18s and banning of unsupervised commercial sunbeds outlets.

Environmental health professionals have campaigned for increased controls over the more unscrupulous elements of the sunbed trade.

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