Overview
- The TGA, which opened the consultation Thursday, will take public submissions for eight weeks.
- The draft would tighten SPF testing, accredit and monitor labs, and adopt new test methods to address unreliable results.
- The regulator is considering replacing numeric SPF with plain categories such as low, medium, high and very high.
- The agency warned that any label change would require legislation and new spending by manufacturers and could diverge from other countries.
- The push follows CHOICE testing that found 16 of 20 SPF50 products fell short, prompting recalls and alarms in a country with about 2,000 skin cancer deaths each year.