The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) reclassification of sunbeds as carcinogenic has kick-started heated debate, with arguments from both sides making front page headlines around the world. Localised incidents are becoming catalysts for change, but the sad reality is that it’s often personal tragedies that serve to highlight the need for tighter regulation of the sunbed industry.
In Australia, the tragic case of Clare Oliver brought sunbed use and skin cancer risk to the top of the national agenda and as a result we now have one of the most tightly regulated industries in the world.
Sunlight is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, it’s a form of radiation. The feature that characterises the different regions and classifications of radiation within the spectrum is the wavelength and wavelengths vary from being extremely long to measuring less than the width of a single atom.
