Australian cosmetics company Naked Sundays ‘pauses’ sunscreen sales to test accuracy of SPF rating | Consumer affairs

Australia Sunscreen and Cosmetics Company said that one of the products waiting to wait to wait for more tests to determine whether the Sun Protection Factor (SPF) allegations are correct.

On Monday, the company published a statement on the website that the SPF50+ Collagen Glow Mineral Sunscreen stopped selling “outside precautions ında until the additional test results in Australia.

Naked Sundays’ announcement, three days after another Australian brand Ultra Violette, the tests of the SPF results of the “inconsistency pattern” after finding a lean screen skin screen product will immediately withdraw from the shelves, he said.

The Australian Sunscreen Industry and Regulation has come to the agenda since June, when the Consumer Defending Group Choice published the results of an investigation into popular brands of popular brands.

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Choice said that she tested 20 popular SPF 50 or 50+ sunscreen from various retailers in a private, accredited laboratory and 16 products did not meet SPF claims.

In the selection test, the Ultra Violette Lean SCF SPF 50+ Mattiling Zinc skin screen, which is a high -level product sold up to $ 50, reversed only one quarter of a SPF result. The election said it returned to five results of a second test.

Consumer Organization did not test their products on naked Sundays.

His chosen General Manager Ashley de Silva announced that there is a serious problem in the Australian sunscreen industry.

De Silva urged the therapeutic goods Administration (TGA) to look at other sunscreens using similar formulations as part of the research initiated after the release of election tests.

“The election calls for another brand, which is a reason to believe that its products can be affected to assess the risk that their products do not provide the requested SPF protection, and if necessary, it immediately removes its products from sale,” he said.

On Monday, on Naked Sundays, he claimed that he has been doing additional controls on his products since the election investigation.

“For the last few months, we took care of our own care and took proactive actions behind the scenes. [and] Additional SPF test in multiple independent laboratories. ”

He said that he received a “numerous” customer questions about the naked Sundays, especially the collagen shiny mineral sunscreen.

He said that he would not explain the manufacturing partners due to confidentiality agreements, but the product was made in “multiple manufacturers” in Australia and the United States.

On the naked Sundays, the US version of the US version has already been re -tested and the SPF50 request advertised in the bottle, and plans to sell this version in Australia, he said.

“We paused the mineral until then [sunscreen] In Australia, he guided sales in his research on new, complete independent SPF results and SPF tests from TGA later. ”

As part of reviewing existing SPF regulations, TGA he said Investigating alternative test methods that may be more reliable.

These include the in vitro test methods in which sunscreen is tested on the human skin that deliberately exposed to UV radiation, which TGA says that it can generate less variable results than the current standard application.

On the naked Sundays, he said that “pause ve and none of the other products about the mineral sunscreen, which only collagen sparkle, were not affected.

The brand leading beauty retailer is stocked in Mecca, while Ultra Violette products are stocked in opponent Sephora.

In a statement on Monday, Mecca confirmed that the SPF50+ Collagen Glow 100% mineral perfection lining lotion immediately valid, immediately valid.

Mecca said that he decided on the naked Sundays, “The brand expects one of the production facilities to be re -tested independently to determine whether the product has performed as the advertisement is made.”

He offered a complete repayment on the product to customers and said that no other than the brand was affected.

Guardian Australia also contacted Sephora for a comment.