The Food and Drugs Administration has proposed that all indoor tanning beds should have a label warning users about the possibility of cancer and that the devices shouldn't be used by people under 18. 

Tanning beds emit ultraviolet radiation and have been regulated as "low risk", class 1 devices. The new FDA proposal hopes to change it to a class 2 device, making it fall into the same category as CT scanners.

If the proposed order is finalized, "There will be requirements that products have to meet in order to go on the market," Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said.

Tanning bed manufacturers should also warm customers with open skin lesions or skin cancer against using these machines. People that have a family history of skin cancer should also refrain from using this tanning device.

According to Shuren, reviewing of the beds before they are sold will help FDA ensure that they are working properly. He said that software malfunction of these devices are a growing concern. They lead to excess radiation, which results in people getting burned. Prior statistics show that 58 percent of teens who use tanning beds get sunburned.

Physician Mary Maloney, a spokeswoman for the American Academy of Dermatology revealed that she was very satisfied with the new FDA proposal and said she couldn't be "happier." According to Maloney, tanning beds have caused an increase in the number of melanoma among young women.