Women warned over ‘injecting’ tans

Young women are putting their health at risk by using illegal tanning injections purchased on the internet, a Traveller organisation has warned.

Pauline O’Grady-Noonan of the Traveller Visibility Group (TVG) said girls as young as 16 are buying tanning kits, which contain Melanotan, an unauthorised medication, and are self-injecting at home.

“The concern is these products are unregulated,” said Ms O’Grady-Noonan. “Nobody knows what the side-effects of these injections are.”