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01.03.2015 | Melanomas
Teens and Indoor Tanning: Time to Act on the US Food and Drug Administration’s Black-Box Warning
verfasst von:
Mark Gottlieb, JD, Sophie J. Balk, MD, Alan C. Geller, MPH, RN, Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, MD
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 3/2015
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Excerpt
On 27 May 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an order requiring that sunlamp products used in tanning salons carry a visible boxed warning that states: “Attention: This sunlamp product should not be used on persons under the age of 18 years”.
1 This order, and other requirements for these products, are unprecedented, representing “an important step… to address the risk to public health from sunlamp products”.
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