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Safe Tanning

New Sunbed Tube Legislation - To promote safe tanning

Suntan Systems now stock these tubes.

European Legislation is advising an output limit of 0.3W/m2 for all sunbed tubes.

This safe tanning advice is based on scientific advice to European Member States, the output limit represents the intensity of the midday sun in the summer in the Mediterranean. In other words this safe limit is intended to match sunbed output to the maximum that human Caucasians have biologically evolved to cope with.

Technical interpretation of what makes a sunbed a safe product is taken from relevant European or British Standards, which in this case is the aforementioned BS EN 60335-2-27. This standard was amended to take effect from April 2009, and the relevant amendment reflected authoritative scientific advice issued in 2006 and a subsequent 2007 declaration by European experts, if your irradiance level exceeds 0.3 Wm/e2 it could be deemed as an unsafe product under GPSR.