Fish pedicure case goes to court

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A civil trial began Monday in a case by an Arizona salon owner who is challenging an order from cosmetology regulators that forced her to stop offering pedicures that use fish to nibble the dead skin off people’s feet.

Cindy Vong opened a fish spa within her nail salon in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert during October 2008 but was forced to close that fish spa segment of her business nearly a year later.

The closure was prompted by the state’s Board of Cosmetology, which said the practice was illegal because the fish were a tool for skin exfoliation that couldn’t be sanitized in between uses. Click below for full story -