UVA Protection Provided By 10% Of Sunscreens Tested - Researcher Diffey
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Only six of 59 commercially available sunscreens met the critical wavelength standard of +/-370 nm to establish efficacy against UVA light in a study conducted by Brian Diffey, Newcastle General Hospital, England, et al., and published in the December Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
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