National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) published, on Wednesday (2), a resolution that prohibits the storage, marketing, distribution, manufacture, import, advertising and use of high power fluorescent lamps used in tanning equipment.
The prohibition aims to curb the manufacture and maintenance of artificial tanning chambers for aesthetic purposes, which have been prohibited in Brazil since 2009. Studies show that the Artificial tanning can cause skin cancer burns .
Although prohibited, tanning chambers are systematically being used irregularly in Brazil, according to the agency.
The measure happens after the publication of the International Cancer Research Agency (IARC-International Agency for Research on Cancer), linked to the World Health Organization (WHO), which concluded that the use of chambers of Artificial tanning is carcinogenic for humans .
The Brazilian Society of Dermatology (SBD) and the National Cancer Institute (INCA) supported the ban on Anvisa.
Anvisa also states that state and municipal legislative assemblies are irregularly approving the use of tanning chambers. “This type of municipal/state law contradicts and disrespects the federal norm (…) and the agency will provide for the appropriate legal measures to safeguard and protect health from the population.”
See the health damage of the use of tanning chambers
- skin cancer
- skin aging
- burns
- skin injuries
- scars
- wrinkle
- Loss of skin elasticity
- Eye injuries like photoqueratitis
- Inflammation of the corneal and iris
- photoconjunctivite
- Early cataract
- pterigium (opaque, white or milky excrescence, fixed to the cornea)
- conjunctiva epidermal carcinoma
This content was originally published in Anvisa prohibits lamps used in tanning equipment on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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