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A sunscreen scandal heats up in Australia

Marketplace All-in-One

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News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: Eighteen sunscreen products have been pulled from shelves in Australia because of safety concerns; testing showed they did not offer the SPF protection claimed. As the U.S. tightens its H-1B visa scheme, China hopes it will gain from the launch of a new program to attract foreign talent. And can the United Arab Emirates become an AI superpower?

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A sunscreen scandal heats up in Australia. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace

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Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning. We start in

0:50.6

Australia where regulators have pulled 18 sunscreen products from the shelves

0:54.8

over safety concerns. It followed testing by a consumer group that showed dozens of

0:59.4

sunscreen products, including some by major global brands, did not offer the SBF claimed.

1:05.0

Australia has the highest rate of skin cancers in the world, and two out of three Australians

1:09.4

will have at least one instance in their

1:11.1

lifetime. It also has some of the strictest sunscreen regulations globally.

1:15.9

Here's the BBC's Katie Silver with more, Katie Hi.

1:19.4

Hi.

1:20.1

So this all dates back to research that came out in June. What's the story?

1:24.4

So this was absolutely shocking in Australia. Back in June, Choice, which is a consumer advocacy group, did some research where they basically

1:32.4

conducted lab tests on a series of sunscreens and found that a shocking majority of them

1:39.0

failed to have the SPF or the sun protection factor that was advertised on the label.

1:45.3

So one of them said that it had SBF 50.

1:48.2

It actually was found to have just four in the tests.

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