(Source: National estimates for tanning bed/booth-related injuries, 20 are from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System – All Injury Program operated by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission in collaboration with the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), CDC. This estimate does not include cases that are treated in outpatient clinics, physicians' offices, not medically treated, or not reported. It is likely that the actual number of injuries may be higher because this estimate only includes cases that are initially treated in US hospital emergency departments and reported to a central database. This number is based on the average yearly estimate of injuries for 20 (the most recent years for which data are available). The FDA recognizes these products as hazardous and that they produce over 3,000 hospital emergency room cases a year. Sunlamp products for indoor UV tanning may incorporate different types of fluorescent lamps, reflector spot (RS) or High Intensity Discharge (HID) with different levels of energy output and radiation at different wavelengths. The ultraviolet lamps, also subject to the performance standard, produce radiation within a prescribed range of wavelengths and are intended for use in sunlamp products. Sunlamp products include portable home units, table top models, tanning beds and tanning booths and are subject to FDA medical device labeling requirements and special controls, as well as an electronic product performance standard (.20). Sunlamp products are medical devices and electronic products designed to use one or more ultraviolet lamp(s) and are intended for irradiation of any part of the living human body, by ultraviolet radiation with wavelengths in air between 200 and 400 nanometers, to induce skin tanning.

Exposure to UV radiation, whether from the sun or indoor tanning beds, can cause: A 2009 report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization, concludes that tanning devices are more dangerous than previously thought. The FDA wants consumers to know that UV radiation in tanning devices poses serious health risks.

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