Fake Bake educate MPs on how the nation can achieve a safe tan

(11/02/2010)

Fake Bake presented the ‘Save Your Skin’ petition and hosted MP’s breakfast prior to secondary reading of ‘sun bed bill’.

On Tuesday 26th January Fake Bake’s CEO Sandra McClumpha presented the Save Your Skin petition to No.10 with representatives from The Sun newspaper and cancers charities Skin and Cancer Research.

Sandra McClumpha stated, ‘We have been working tirelessly for the last three years to raise awareness of the legislation that needs to be put into place to regulate the sun bed industry and we’d like to thank the thousands of supporters who have joined our campaign. It was with pride that I presented our petition to the government with the support of leading cancer charities Cancer Research and Skin’.

Sandra continues, ‘Far too many impressionable youngsters are getting badly burnt from unmanned coin operated. We are horrified to see them in games arcades and near schools up and down the country. We are calling for there to be stricter regulations and guidelines on the sun bed industry’.

Then on the Friday 29th January immediately before the sun bed bill was raised, Fake Bake were asked to host a breakfast in the House of Commons to educate the MPs on how the nation can achieve a safe tan.

Sandra along with campaign supporter Danielle Lineker demonstrated the Fake Bake spray tans to illustrate to MPs how popular these simple alternatives to sun beds are.

Sandra McClumpha hosted the breakfast with MPs Sian James and Julie Morgan and she would like to thank them for their unwavering support and enthusiasm for the vital ‘Save Your Skin’ campaign.

The sun bed bill is currently with at the committee stage and it is hoped that new legislation will be introduced by May 2010.

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