Advertisements on messaging platforms spruiking illegal tanning salons have led to the first successful prosecution of a business offering the dangerous service.
F.A. Beauty, trading under the name The Tanned Me, has been forced to forfeit nine tanning beds and pay $35,000 in fines and legal costs after being busted operating cosmetic tanning services using ultraviolet radiation.
The company was fined in the NSW Local Court after the state's Environment Protection Authority conducted inspections on its two premises in Fairfield and Bondi.
Operating commercial tanning services using UV radiation beds has been illegal in NSW since 2014 and penalties were substantially increased in 2025.
Despite the longstanding ban, EPA executive director Emma Whale said the case was the first of its kind.
