Federal health experts are reportedly calling for more stringent restrictions, so as to protect teenagers from the cancer risks of tanning beds, including a potential prohibition for people under 18.

Earlier reports from the panel's March 25 meeting pondered over the recommendation to impose a ban on the use of tanning bed by people aged 18 and older. However, that wasn't the only restriction the panel advised the FDA to adopt.

The WHO analysis has depicted that the susceptibility to falling prey to the most malignant form of skin cancer is 75 percent more in people who use tanning beds in their teens and 20s.

Although, higher than 30 states have already enacted tanning salon regulations, including many that require parental consent, yet new FDA requirements are reported to apply nationally.

In addition, the panel has also extended a recommendation that the FDA should introduce the use of strict and bolder warning labels to tanning beds and change the way by which they are regulated.

As of now, machines are categorized as low-risk devices, in the same group as bandages and tongue depressors. Now the FDA has increased the classification to Class II that limits the levels of radiation emitted by the machine and introduces other changes to their design.

Moreover, the most grilling change likely to be introduced would be the panel's recommendation to impose restriction on the use of tanning beds by people with Fitzpatrick skin type 1 as it is discovered that those bearing very pale skin type such as red-haired people with freckles suffer sunburns instead of tans when exposed to sunlight or tanning lamps.

On the other hand, a major part of the panel also calls for tanning beds to be listed as Class III devices, which not only needs to be special monitoring controls such as operator training requirements but also require pre-market consent by the FDA.