{"id":6981,"date":"2012-02-07T19:25:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:47:06","slug":"australias-new-south-wales-institute-total-ban-on-tanning-beds-from-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/australias-new-south-wales-institute-total-ban-on-tanning-beds-from-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s New South Wales government institutes total ban on tanning beds from December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New South Wales government decided to ban tanning beds by \u00a0the end of 2014.\u00a0Environment Minister Robyn Parker on Saturday announced tough new laws totally banning commercial solaria tanning units in NSW\u00a0 from December 31, 2014.\u00a0&#8221;Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world\u00a0and this ban is long overdue,&#8221; Parker said on Saturday, World\u00a0 Cancer Day.\u00a0&#8221;Solaria use is associated with a range of skin cancers, including melanoma, which is the most life-threatening form of skin\u00a0 cancer among 15 to 39-year-olds.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A study by the University of Sydney estimated the ban would prevent about 120\u00a0melanomas\u00a0from developing and save about 10 lives every<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #616161; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 18px;\"> <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">pubblished 6 february 2012<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New South Wales government decided to ban tanning beds by \u00a0the end of 2014.\u00a0Environment Minister Robyn Parker on Saturday announced tough new laws totally banning commercial solaria tanning units in NSW\u00a0 from December 31, 2014.\u00a0&#8221;Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world\u00a0and this ban is long overdue,&#8221; Parker said on Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prevenzione-melanoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10816,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/10816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}