The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a working group of the World Health Organization, has added ultraviolet radiation (UVR)-emitting tanning devices – tanning beds – to the list of the most dangerous forms of cancer-causing radiation.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a working group of the World Health Organization, has added ultraviolet radiation (UVR)-emitting tanning devices – tanning beds – to the list of the most dangerous forms of cancer-causing radiation.

After weighing studies from around the world, a team of 20 top scientists from nine countries added tanning beds to the IARC’s “Group One,” which identifies the most harmful forms of radiation, those that are “carcinogenic [cancer-causing] to humans.”