Questions over lab’s sunscreen tests<\/a><\/p>\nAt least eight sunscreens that failed to meet their advertised SPF50 sun protection claims in a recent review had their original tests for certification done by an overseas laboratory whose results are being questioned by industry experts.<\/p>\n
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Speaking directly to its customers, the Ultra Violette statement said, “[The result variability] wasn’t good enough for us, and it isn’t good enough for you.”<\/p>\n
The company announced it is voluntarily withdrawing the product from the market effective immediately and apologised to its customer base.<\/p>\n
“We are deeply sorry that one of our products has fallen short of the standards we pride ourselves on and that you’ve come to expect of us,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
The same product is also being withdrawn in the US, where it is called “Velvet Screen”.<\/p>\n
The brand was careful to point out the issue did not affect its other products.<\/p>\n
“Unlike the majority of our range, Lean Screen was created by a third-party manufacturer and\u202fwas the only sunscreen they made for us. We will no longer be making any SKINSCREENS\u2122 with that manufacturer.”<\/p>\n
The ABC has confirmed Wild Child is the manufacturer of the Ultra Violette Lean Screen product.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a statement to the ABC, CEO of Wild Child Tom Curnow said the company had ceased using Princeton Consumer Research to test its products.<\/p>\n
“We were surprised and disappointed by inconsistencies in results from PCR, a laboratory long accepted by the TGA and widely used by Australian brands and manufacturers,” he said.<\/p>\n
The company also said it has “initiated confirmatory testing” with alternative labs for products it manufactured.<\/p>\n
Consumer group Choice has called on the TGA to urgently provide an update.<\/p>\n
“Ultra Violette’s product may not be the only product that is affected and consumers deserve to know whether they can continue to trust SPF claims in Australia,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The TGA has told the ABC that its investigation is ongoing. It said, “Given the complexity and scale of the material involved, this process will take time. Through its risk-based approach to the regulation of therapeutic goods, the TGA will take regulatory action as appropriate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunscreen brand Ultra Violette is withdrawing one of its well-known products from the market due to concerns about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,11276,65796,65794,65795,65793],"class_list":["post-88175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-choice","tag-spf","tag-sunscreen","tag-sunscreen-testing","tag-ultra-violette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}