Another SPF Protection Controversy

More than a dozen Australian suncreens fail protection claims.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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More than a dozen sunscreens marketed in Australia failed to meet their SPF 50 label claim. Choice, a consumer group in Australia, tested 20 popular sunscreens and found that 16 of them did not meet their SPF 50 label claim. One formula had an SPF 4, according to Choice. At least eight of those tests were performed by Princeton Consumer Research, which returned significantly higher SPF results than the Choice testing. Red flags were raised when the tested sunscreens showed little variation in...

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