{"id":49243,"date":"2025-09-29T02:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49243\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:13:07","slug":"aspect-sun-sunscreens-pulled-from-shelves-over-spf-labelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49243\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspect Sun Sunscreens pulled from shelves over SPF labelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K0BHGR_sunscreen_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"616\" alt=\"Aspect sunscreen\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAspect sunscreen.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Product Safety\n<\/p>\n<p>Two Aspect Sun branded sunscreens are being recalled after testing found SPF levels were unlikely to meet the rating stated on the label.<\/p>\n<p>Product Safety says preliminary results received from an independent lab show the SPF level in two products was unlikely to meet the labelled SPF rating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A low SPF rating may increase the risk of sunburn during use and reduce the long term effectiveness of preventing skin cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The products are<\/p>\n<p>Aspect Sun Physical Sun Protection SPF50+ SN-075-054, Batch numbers A2450, A2190, A1958, A1492<\/p>\n<p>Aspect Sun Tinted Physical SPF50+ SN-075-057, Batch numbers A2451, A2191, A1976, A1629<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has bought these products is advised to stop using them. A refund can be requested with proof of purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The sunscreens were sold between November 2022 and August 2025 at a range of shops throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aspect sunscreen. Photo: Supplied \/ Product Safety Two Aspect Sun branded sunscreens are being recalled after testing found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-49243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}