UV Driven Tanning Salons: Danger on Main Street.

Appearing in the early 1980s, at a time when UVA was considered as relatively safe, the tanning industry has substantially developed in occidental countries, especially in Northern European countries. In Europe, the erythemally-weighted irradiance of a modern sunbed should not exceed 0.3 W/m, equivalent to an UV index of 12, i.

Anatomical UV Exposure in French Outdoor Workers.

Background: Solar ultraviolet has been recognized as the main causative factor for skin cancer and is currently classified as a carcinogenic agent by International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Method: Results from a previous phone survey conducted in 2012 in France were used to assess exposure conditions to sun among outdoor workers. Satellite data were used in combination with an exposure model to assess anatomical exposure.

Occupational UV exposure in French outdoor workers.

Objectives: Occupational ultraviolet (UV) exposure was evaluated in a population-based sample in France.

Methods: A random survey was conducted in 2012 in individuals aged 25 to 69 years. The median daily standard erythemal UV dose (SED) was estimated from exposure time and place and matched to satellite UV records.

Tanning salons and skin cancer.

Indoor tanning has substantially grown in USA and Europe, more especially in the sun-deprived Northern countries, but also in more sunny countries such as Queensland, Australia. Several studies have specifically addressed the prevalence of sunbed use by children and adolescents in Northern Europe and in the USA, and showed that up to 40-50% of teenagers 15-18 years old had ever used indoor tanning, the highest figures being observed among girls in Scandinavia and Minnesota. Indoor tanning among adults is mostly prevalent in age classes younger than 45.

A multicentre epidemiological study on sunbed use and cutaneous melanoma in Europe.

A large European case-control study investigated the association between sunbed use and cutaneous melanoma in an adult population aged between 18 and 49 years. Between 1999 and 2001 sun and sunbed exposure was recorded in 597 newly diagnosed melanoma cases and 622 controls in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Fifty three percent of cases and 57% of controls ever used sunbeds.