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Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)

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230 points mgh2 | 3 comments | 06 Sep 25 19:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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doctorhandshake ◴[07 Sep 25 01:13 UTC] No.45154403[source]▶
Independent lab testing of consumer packaged goods is so important, expensive, unprofitable, and downright risky from a libel standpoint that I dare say it should be the role of government to do it.
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1. socalgal2 ◴[07 Sep 25 01:20 UTC] No.45154454[source]▶
Yes, because government inspectors are flawless and would never take bribes to let things pass or force them to fail. Nope, they'd never do that.
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2. unethical_ban ◴[07 Sep 25 01:49 UTC] No.45154646[source]▶
False implication and assuming private companies with solely a profit motive are themselves angels.

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oh, excuse me. "No siree, never would a for-profit company put out false products, nope, not ever"

3. andreasmetsala ◴[07 Sep 25 07:28 UTC] No.45156142[source]▶
Certainly a flawed system is better than an outright broken one? At least the former can be improved.