University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications
Title
The US Food and Drug Administration's Proposed Rule to Increase Regulation of Indoor Tanning Devices
UMMS Affiliation
Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Medicine; UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center
Publication Date
2016-05-01
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Dermatology | Health Policy | Public Health
Abstract
Tanning bed use, particularly among teen girls and young adult women, has become a modern-day epidemic in the past 20 years. Numerous studies have established the link between indoor tanning use and skin cancer, including melanoma. Reducing the harms of indoor tanning is one of 5 goals outlined in the 2014 US Surgeon General’s “Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer.”Consistent with the Call to Action, on December 22, 2015, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed rule with the following restrictions for sunlamp products (ie, indoor tanning beds and booths): (1) to ban their use among individuals younger than 18 years; (2) to require prospective users to sign a risk acknowledgment certification; and (3) to provide user manuals to customers and tanning facility operators on request.
Keywords
indoor tanning, FDA, regulation
Rights and Permissions
Publisher PDF posted after 12 months as allowed by the publisher's author rights policy at http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/pages/instructions-for-authors#SecDepositingResearchArticlesinApprovedPublicRepositories.
DOI of Published Version
10.1001/jamadermatol.2016.0504
Source
JAMA Dermatol. 2016 May 1;152(5):509-10. doi: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2016.0504. Link to article on publisher's site
Related Resources
Journal/Book/Conference Title
JAMA dermatology
PubMed ID
26981925
Repository Citation
Coups, Elliot J.; Geller, Alan C.; and Pagoto, Sherry L., "The US Food and Drug Administration's Proposed Rule to Increase Regulation of Indoor Tanning Devices" (2016). University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications. 1123.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/1123
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