Therapeutic Goods Administration investigates Australian sunscreen supplier blocked in US

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A sunscreen manufacturer at the centre of multiple recent sunscreen recalls has been blocked from selling in the US for the past three years. But the Australian regulator still allowed the company to sell its products here.

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00:00Even on a rainy day, Angie Nags makes sure she's fully protected from the sun.

00:07She has an autoimmune disease called lupus.

00:11My lupus particularly is highly stimulated by UV exposure.

00:16Angie regularly use 2 of 19 sunscreens that have been recalled or paused from sale in recent weeks

00:24over concerns they weren't meeting their SPF claims.

00:28They were all made using the same base formulation from PERF manufacturer Wildchild Laboratories.

00:36And at that point I went, you know what, I don't feel like the full story is being told.

00:41An ABC investigation has found Wildchild has been blocked from importing their sunscreen products to the US since 2022.

00:50But Australia's regulator, the TGA, continued to allow Wildchild to supply sunscreens.

00:57I think that in this situation there are obviously some things to learn from the fact that the signal might have been missed earlier on.

01:05A 2024 audit report from America's regulator, obtained by the ABC,

01:11reveals the agency uncovered several violations in Wildchild's manufacturing processes.

01:18There was a notable lack of quality assurance within all the processes of manufacturing, testing and release of the product.

01:26Wildchild's CEO said all issues identified by the FDA have been addressed by significant investment in this facility.

01:35But the TGA told the ABC it was not aware of the FDA's 2024 audit report until you began investigating several sunscreens in June this year.

01:47The TGA has lost their social licence right now in terms of telling us what is safe and how to protect ourselves and our families from the sun.

01:57않 the U.S.

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