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Speaker 1: Now Consumer New Zealand is calling for a ban on

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Speaker 1: sun beds. They did a bit of mystery shopping and

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Speaker 1: they found one sunbed operator was very happy to let

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Speaker 1: a fourteen year old use the sun bed. Now that's illegal,

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Speaker 1: And then they also found several operators were happy to

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Speaker 1: let a very fair skinned person use the bed. Belinda

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Speaker 1: Castle's is an investigative writer for Consuming New Zealand and

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Speaker 1: with us. Hey, Belinda, hi, now is it the case

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Speaker 1: that they're not allowed didn't realize this, but are they

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Speaker 1: not allowed to let a very fair skinned person into

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Speaker 1: the bed?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, it's not against the law because we have very

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Speaker 2: lax regulations when it comes to that. So the only

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Speaker 2: person that's illegal to in is an under eighteen that

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Speaker 2: got changed in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: And one of the operators did let an under eighteen

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Speaker 1: year old in.

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Speaker 2: They did so, I mean the under eighteen did sign

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Speaker 2: the consent form and you know, ticked the box that

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Speaker 2: they were eighteen, but there was no verification of that age.

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Speaker 2: So you know, it's a bit like buying alcohol buying tobacco.

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Speaker 2: You really should be checking the idea. I mean, as

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Speaker 2: a fourteen year old wants to have a some bed.

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Speaker 2: They're just going to take those boxes, aren't they.

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Speaker 1: No, totally. Now, look, I don't think it's good that

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Speaker 1: this operator let the fourteen year old and obviously, but

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Speaker 1: that is one rogue operator out of how many.

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Speaker 2: So we sent an underaged person to twenty three operators

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Speaker 2: in different regions across the country. So yeah, agreed, it

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Speaker 2: was only one, but we found more of the operators

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Speaker 2: actually let in a typeline or very fair skinned person

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Speaker 2: as well. So it's these two at risk groups are

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Speaker 2: really vulnerable too, very vulnerable to skin cancer. Skin cancer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, isn't the case. Somebody's just text me so

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Speaker 1: you're just doing a Joe Biden Belinda. That's okay, it's

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Speaker 1: very fashionable at the moment. Somebody was just texting me

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Speaker 1: saying sun bed's a banned in Australia because of skin cancer?

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Speaker 1: Is that true?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct. So the band over there. There's other

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Speaker 2: countries as well, Brazil, some countries in Europe have bandom,

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Speaker 2: and those that haven't fandom actually have a lot tougher regulation.

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Speaker 2: So we've got these vol vuntry regulations that clearly voluntary

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Speaker 2: is not working, so we should just ban them there's

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Speaker 2: no need for them. There's no unless you have a

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Speaker 2: medical reason to use the some bed and if that's

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Speaker 2: the case, it should be under medical supervision with a

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Speaker 2: controlled uv UV light. But you know, for most of

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Speaker 2: us wanting to have some bed to get a tan,

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Speaker 2: there's no need, is it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I don't use these things and I

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Speaker 1: don't see any like personally. I'm not into it obviously.

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Speaker 1: But there's one rogue operator is that it's not an

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Speaker 1: overreaction to ban something because of one bad dude.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been mystery shopping some bed operators for more

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Speaker 2: than a decade, so you know, over the years we've

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Speaker 2: found other other operators. And again, as I said, it's

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Speaker 2: a fair skinned people. So it's not just us calling

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Speaker 2: for a ban either. It's a health agency, it's the

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Speaker 2: cancer Society, the dermatologists, you know obviously, the people that

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Speaker 2: are dealing with the impacts of skin cancer. So we're

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Speaker 2: not just the only ones that are asking for a ban.

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Speaker 1: All right, Belinda, thank you for talking us. So I

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Speaker 1: appreciate Blinda Castle's consuming Youzealand and Vista good writing.

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