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Berkeley Begins Regulating Tattoo & Piercing Parlors
Starting this week, tattoo and piercing establishments are to begin being inspected for sanitation standards and practitioners will need to be registered with the city and meet health and safety regulations. With the passage of the Safe Body Art Act, body art establishments will have to pay a yearly registration fee and stay updated on health practices.
Personally I think that an establishment’s success relies so heavily on customer satisfaction that no body art place could stay in business if they were constantly infecting people (can you say potential lawsuit?) At any rate, I guess body art enthusiasts may feel a little safer knowing that someone is looking out for them.
Stay safe, needle fans!
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This new Act that protects people who get tattoos and enforces accountability on the artist is a great idea. There are too many backyard tattoo parlors as well as well known parlors, that do not always follow sanitation protocol (for whatever reason). If this new Act is passed, artists will think twice before skipping steps in a vital sanitation process. A decision that could ruin the rest of a person's life who just trusted a person to apply some cool body art.