Consumer Reports Blasts SPF Claims Again, But Industry's Problems May Be Bigger

The annual bad marks given to sunscreen brands from Consumer Reports for their SPF claims could be due to CR's nonconformity with FDA-prescribed test guidelines or could signal testing failures or other compliance problems in the industry. In any event, companies are hurrying to retest sunscreen formulas and validate their claims.

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For the fifth consecutive year, Consumer Reports has released test findings suggesting that SPF claims in the sunscreen marketplace are in many cases inflated, and there could be more to this issue than industry would care to admit.

According to CR, which bills itself as the world's largest independent, nonprofit consumer organization, 23 of more than 60 sunscreen...

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