Home-based tattoo shops shut down

Posted Feb 10, 2010 12:16 am.

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Alberta Health Services has shut down seven home-based tattoo parlours in the province.

The businesses were closed because they were not licensed.

CTV reports if proper sterilization procedures aren’t followed, there is a risk of picking up a blood-borne disease like Hepatitis or HIV.

AHS is advising anyone who got a tattoo or piercing at a home-based business to get tested.

Hepatitis B is the most serious threat and can be passed from client to client by un-sterilized needles.

more information is expected to be released Wednesday.

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