http://www.tantoday.com/forums/ Find out what the media is saying about the indoor tanning industry. en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:21:34 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.tantoday.com/forums/images/tantoday/misc/rss.jpg http://www.tantoday.com/forums/ http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38222-what-ftc-thinks-about-indoor-tanning.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:52:26 GMT http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/health/hea11.pdf Especially interesting... *Regulation* The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) share responsibilities in the regulation of sunlamps and tanning devices. The FDA enforces regulations that deal... http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/cons...alth/hea11.pdf

Especially interesting...
Regulation
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and
the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) share
responsibilities in the regulation of sunlamps and
tanning devices. The FDA enforces regulations that
deal with labels on the devices; the FTC investigates
false, misleading, and deceptive advertising claims
about the devices. When these agencies determine
that device labels don’t comply with the regulations
or that advertisements are not truthful, they may
take corrective action. The FDA also can remove
products from the marketplace. ]]> News About Tanning esun http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38222-what-ftc-thinks-about-indoor-tanning.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38196-mri-announces-funding-grant-smart-tan-ita.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:54:03 GMT For Immediate Release: Monday, November 16, 2009 MR International Announces Funding Grants for Smart Tan Network and the Indoor Tanning Association (ITA) MR International, LLC and its Members announced funding grants for the Smart Tan Network and the Indoor Tanning Association (ITA). Max... For Immediate Release: Monday, November 16, 2009

MR International Announces Funding Grants for Smart Tan Network and the Indoor Tanning Association (ITA)


MR International, LLC and its Members announced funding grants for the Smart Tan Network and the Indoor Tanning Association (ITA). Max Recone announced at the MR International, LLC "2009 Summit Conference" a $12,000.00 funding grant for each of these Industry Organizations.

Said Max Recone (CEO and General Manager), "Both of these Organizations serve the Tanning public and all of the Professionals of the Indoor Tanning Industry" These funding grants are to be used to support each organizations general funding needs". In addition, MR International announced that effective January 1, 2010 it will formally request all of its key suppliers to be Members in good standing with both organizations. Max commented, "the MR International Members strongly feel that all of our core suppliers need to support these Organizations and it is our goal to only deal with suppliers that understand the need to make sure that our Industry Organizations are supported". He further commented, "We believe that we are the first Company in our Industry to formally request that all of its Vendors to support these efforts". "We believe that we will gain full support from our Vendor Community".

Matt Russell stated: "It is great to see organizations like MR International step-up and support the organizations that are working hard to defend and grow the North American Indoor Tanning Market. Fund raising is extremely difficult in any economy so this kind of support is especially welcome during these current economic conditions".

John Overstreet, Executive Director of the ITA commented: "The ITA (Indoor Tanning Association) deeply appreciates MR International's vote of confidence in what we do - fight restrictive legislation to keep the Industry alive until everyone better appreciates the role moderate UV exposure plays in a healthy life style" "Our Industry is facing significant challenges in the coming year and without the support of everyone, we will have a much steeper hill to climb".

MR International, LLC serves as a Cooperative supplier to many of the Tanning Industry's leading Retailers. The Company is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.


Contact Information:

MR International, LLC.
Max Recone - General Manager
500 North Rainbow Blvd.
Suite #300
Las Vegas, Nevada 89107

MRR1769@aol.com
917 971-0495 ]]> News About Tanning frankie http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38196-mri-announces-funding-grant-smart-tan-ita.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38193-good-article.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:55:36 GMT Line Here (http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/16/moh.healthmag.vitamind.heart.depression/index.html) Read the headline then read the caption under the top photo... Line Here

Read the headline then read the caption under the top photo... ]]> News About Tanning theislandtan http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38193-good-article.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38192-brazil-tanning-banned.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:37:41 GMT Hi I am one of many people who are suffering with this prohibition. Here in Brazil we do not have a strong association to address certain abuses against those who work in this area. I ask if anyone knows some influential people and you can publish something about this ban to the whole world... Hi
I am one of many people who are suffering with this prohibition.
Here in Brazil we do not have a strong association to address certain abuses against those who work in this area.
I ask if anyone knows some influential people and you can publish something about this ban to the whole world knows what is happening here, that's not fair.
No country has adopted the ban after the IARC published their research.
Please help us, we are not able to work. ]]> News About Tanning yonooah http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38192-brazil-tanning-banned.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38186-balto-co-votes-against-ban.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:54:18 GMT Baltimore County Council Votes Against Teen Tanning Ban - Baltimore News, Weather, Breaking News | WMAR-TV (http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story/Baltimore-County-Council-Votes-Against-Teen/OZd6Nc4Xu0Wt1be8229dkQ.cspx) Baltimore County Council Votes Against Teen Tanning Ban - Baltimore News, Weather, Breaking News | WMAR-TV ]]> News About Tanning GeminiTanning http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38186-balto-co-votes-against-ban.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38147-very-good-vitamin-d-article.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:54:07 GMT Washington Times - Sunshine vitamin stirs new debate (http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/08/sunshine-vitamin-stirs-new-debate/print/) Washington Times - Sunshine vitamin stirs new debate ]]> News About Tanning RDKJ http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38147-very-good-vitamin-d-article.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38105-interesting-facts-about-dr-oz.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:49:57 GMT Apigenin Phytonutrient Cuts Ovarian Cancer Risk (http://www.naturalnews.com/027451_Dr_Mehmet_Oz_vaccines.html) Apigenin Phytonutrient Cuts Ovarian Cancer Risk ]]> News About Tanning dcjjp1 http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38105-interesting-facts-about-dr-oz.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38098-cosmo-bad-press.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:16:23 GMT If you have magazines in your salon get the cosmopolition out. There is a *big article bashing* *tanning*. I think it is page 187. I am takeing Cosmo out of the salon for good If you have magazines in your salon get the cosmopolition out. There is a big article bashing tanning. I think it is page 187. I am takeing Cosmo out of the salon for good ]]> News About Tanning scottg http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38098-cosmo-bad-press.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38026-dr-oz-dc-talk-show.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:38:03 GMT I listen to a DC talk show every morning called the Kane show. It's also broadcast in Tampa i believe and segments run on XM 21. Anyways, Dr. Oz was a guest and a caller called in asking about the swine flu and the vaccine. And if her son didn't have it by now should she be fearful or something like that. Anyways. One of his recommendations was sunlight! We really need to get Oz on board. ]]> News About Tanning EliteMike http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/38026-dr-oz-dc-talk-show.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37896-money-need-i-say-more.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:51:34 GMT Money Stopping Vitamin D?s DFI Increase? (http://www.naturalproductsmarketplace.com/articles/2009/10/money-hindering-vitamin-ds-dfis-increase.aspx?tw=20091027084722) Vitamin D is the hottest vitamin under the sun. Even the Financial Times is writing about it. In an article about the sunshine... Money Stopping Vitamin D?s DFI Increase?

Vitamin D is the hottest vitamin under the sun. Even the Financial Times is writing about it. In an article about the sunshine vitamin, they discuss University of Toronto Professor Reinhold Vieth’s fight to get the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to raise the dietary reference intakes (DFIs) of vitamin D for all age groups in the United States and Canada. They say the recommendations, if increased, will only rise slightly. The main reason they give for the static recommended intake? Money. They state no company with the financial power, i.e. a pharmaceutical company, will want to sponsor a placebo-controlled randomized study to look at the effects of vitamin D in a healthy population because the vitamin is easy and cheap to make. Thus, it doesn’t offer a high profit margin. And, they argue, even if someone would back a large-scale study that could encourage daily recommended dose changes, the study wouldn’t be completed for at least a decade.
They also discuss recent studies confirming its health benefits; and give a history of the vitamin, including the discovery, and how the understanding of the vitamin’s role in human health has changed since the early 20th century. Then, they discuss how it works in the body. They also offer a sidebar on why they feel a 1984 study that showed vitamin D’s toxicity at 3,800 IU/d was flawed. ]]> News About Tanning dcjjp1 http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37896-money-need-i-say-more.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37893-really-great-read-must-fellow-owner.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:32:55 GMT Just 'D' facts
Vitamin D isn't a supplement or a vitamin. It's a hormone made naturally when your skin is exposed to sunlight. No dietary source for "The Sunshine Vitamin" even comes close to vitamin D levels made naturally from UVB exposure.

What's important is that 77 percent of Americans are vitamin D deficient, according to government data. The vitamin D research community now recommends vitamin D blood levels of 40-60 ng/ml - levels that nature meant for you to get from regular non-burning UV exposure. Any dermatologist who tells you otherwise is ignoring the facts and clings to the irrational sun-phobia that causes vitamin D deficiency.
Indoor tanners' average vitamin D levels are 42-49 ng/ml, according to Boston University research — sufficient levels, and 90 percent higher than the rest of the population. That comes as no surprise; a single tanning session makes more vitamin D than 100 glasses of milk. In contrast, an Australian study reveals that dermatologists at the end of summer, when vitamin D levels should be their highest, are severely vitamin D deficient at 13.8 ng/ml.
So who's in the dark here?
Vitamin D research has proven conclusively that you are designed to interact with sunlight, just as you are designed to breath air, drink water and eat food. It's just a matter of time before dermatology and chemical sunscreen manufacturers are exposed for overstating the risks of UV - falsely suggesting that risks associated with repeated sunburn are also related to regular, non-burning exposure. That convenient omission has skyrocketed chemical sunscreen sales, turning a sunburn-prevention product into a daily over-use product. And that has contributed to vitamin D deficiency.
It's time to expose yourself to something that should be obvious: It's time to let the sun back into your life.
Don Kermath
University alumus ]]> News About Tanning dcjjp1 http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37893-really-great-read-must-fellow-owner.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37855-baltimore-county-considers-under-18-tanning-ban.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:48:54 GMT The Baltimore County, Md., council introduced a bill seeking to ban tanners under age 18. A hearing will be held on Nov. 10 and the bill is scheduled for a final vote Nov. 16.

The legislation was introduced by councilman Vincent Gardina, who was quoted by the Towson Times as saying, "If it's bad, and the studies indicate that it is bad for you, then I don't think it should be allowed ... period."

Maryland law already requires parental permission for tanners younger than 18.

In September, Howard County, Md. also introduced regulations seeking to ban minors from using tanning equipment.

Source:
Towson Times: Gardina Bill Would Restrict Tanning Bed Use By Minors ]]> News About Tanning dclark http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37855-baltimore-county-considers-under-18-tanning-ban.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37838-tanning-debate-costco-mag-canada.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:53:17 GMT I am not in Canada but heard from another salon owner that her Costco Connection had a debate on tanning. Anyone else see it? Its not online yet I am not in Canada but heard from another salon owner that her Costco Connection had a debate on tanning. Anyone else see it? Its not online yet ]]> News About Tanning Glowtanning530 http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37838-tanning-debate-costco-mag-canada.html http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37836-smart-tan.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:42:34 GMT This may be old news but... Friends -- Smart Tan received a report today that ABC News 20/20 program may be conducting a hidden-camera sting on indoor tanning facilities -- most likely attempting to get salons to 1) break regulations, probably regarding teenage tanning protocol or exposure... This may be old news but...

Friends --

Smart Tan received a report today that ABC News 20/20 program may be conducting a hidden-camera sting on indoor tanning facilities -- most likely attempting to get salons to 1) break regulations, probably regarding teenage tanning protocol or exposure times; or 2) Make therapeutic claims about indoor tanning.

According to the Indoor Tanning Association, "We received a report yesterday from a Salon chain in Arizona that a reporter from 20/20 had been in his store filming with a hidden camera. The operator became suspicious and confronted the reporter and she denied it. However, he had her name (because she signed up for a session) and when he Googled her, investigative reporter for 20/20 appeared."

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Hidden camera reports are usually done with a bag or purse placed carefully on your counter, aimed at the operator. The hidden camera reporter will ask repetitive questions -- sometimes badgering an operator into letting her/his guard down to say something that your salon might not usually say. That's what you need to be prepared for.

ALSO - You have the right to ASK the patron if he/she is a reporter. What is described above is a major breach of journalistic protocol -- when a reporter is identified he/she MUST disclose that he/she is working on a story. He/she CANNOT deny that she/he is a reporter.

We'll follow up on this. In the meantime, make sure your staff is doing the right thing in your salon -- following your exposure criteria and NOT making therapeutic claims about what vitamin D does. In the salon, you may merely say that UVB makes vitamin D naturally, and that tanners have higher vitamin D levels as compared to non-tanners.

Thank you,

Joe Levy, vice president
International Smart Tan Network ]]> News About Tanning Tan Game http://www.tantoday.com/forums/news-about-tanning/37836-smart-tan.html