TANNING FIRM SETTLES OVER FALSE CLAIMS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A California tanning tanning, process by which skins and hides are converted into leather. Vegetable tanning, a method requiring more than a month even with modern machinery and tanning liquors, employs tannin; its use is shown in Egyptian tomb paintings dating from 3000 B.C. products maker has agreed to spend $1.5 million to warn consumers about the dangers of ultraviolet radiation from the sun and indoor tanning salons, the government said Tuesday. California SunCare, a privately held Los Angeles-based company, had falsely claimed in its nationwide advertising that moderate UV exposure provided many health benefits, the Federal Trade Commission said. The FTC FTC See Federal Trade Commission (FTC). said the ads also said users of the company's ``heliotherapy'' line of lotions lotions, n.pl nonoily treatments intended to be applied to the skin for a variety of cosmetic or medicinal purposes. , oils and gels - which contained no sun screens - could reap those benefits while avoiding the dangers of burning and overexposure overexposure too long an exposure time or too high a milliamperage causing too black a picture, loss of detail and some anomalies of translucency. . Public health officials say that tanning, not just burning, can damage the skin and possibly cause skin cancer. Terms of a settlement between the FTC and California SunCare would prohibit the company from continuing the claims. It also would require the company to spend $1.5 million to alert consumers to UV radiation dangers in future advertising and labeling for its tanning products. |
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