Following the release, by 60 Millions de Consommateurs journal, of an article that questions the accuracy of the SPFs displayed on sunscreens, the French Cosmed association, through its President, Jean-Marc Giroux, sent us its answer. This argument, already opened last year at this same moment, bounces back, with the same actors, and the same points. CosmeticOBS-L’Observatoire des Cosmétiques releases this opinion, hoping that the standard (in progress) on the in-vitro SPF measuring be quickly published, putting an end to the debate.
Jean-Marc Giroux Communique
Doctor in Pharmacy, a toxicologist pharmacologist expert
Cosmed (the French association of SMEs of the cosmetics chain) President
From now on, every year, at this same moment of the year, there is a kind of “solar bashing” in some general public media. Libération, a Frenchdaily in 2012 summer, the 60 Million Consumers journal, this year. The SPFs of several sunscreens are “tested” just before summer holiday time. A confused public gets good and low marks. In its edition number 484, “60 Millions de Consommateurs” headlines came as, “Sunscreens: a deceitful protection?”, “A false sense of security," “Suspicion on the indexes.” The effect of such media rhetoric is dramatic. Assured audience. Unfortunately, these whistle blowers, after the traditional expression, use again and again incorrect or incomplete data, many times spoken out against.
The in-vitro measuring method: a false sense of truth
60 millions de Consommateurs resumes a series of in-vitro tests made by Laurence Coiffard, a questioned scientific personality. Once again, we have to remind the readers that the in-vitro tests currently used to assess the UVB protection are neither reliable nor validated by sanitary authorities anywhere in the world. Further, they are completely unsuitable to measure the …
