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YOU USE SUNSCREEN TO
PROTECT YOUR SKIN, BUT
AFTER A
CHESAPEAKE WOMAN GOT
POPULAR
BRAND, 10 ON YOUR SIDE
BRANDS.
AS SOON AS WE DID OUR
TEST WE CALLED THE MAKERS
OF BANANA BOAT-
FOUR DAYS LATER THEY
RECALLED HALF A MILLION
CANS OF SUNSCREENS.
10 ON YOUR SIDE'S
STEPHANIE HARRIS JOINS US
WITH WHAT SHE FOUND.
THESE SPRAY ON SUNSCREENS
ARE REALLY POPULAR
BECASUE THEY'RE
EASY TO USE AND LESS
MESSY THAN LOTIONS.
BUT OUR TEST SHOWED IN
SOME CASES THE TRADE-OFF
IS NOT WORTH
THE RISK.
YOU CAN ALMOST FEEL HER
PAIN.
MARY SHOULDERS IS ONE OF
FIVE PEOPLE WHO GOT
BURNED AFTER USING
BANANA BOAT SPRAY ON
SHOULDERS IS A WELDER
AND WAS DOING WORK LIKE
THIS, NO SPARKS
FLYING, WHEN HER ARM WENT
UP IN FLAMES.
MORE THAN A MONTH LATER
..
SHE STILL DOESN'T
UNDERSTAND HOW IT
WE, SO
WITH AN EXTINGUISHER AND
A DOCTOR STANDING BY
WE TESTED FOUR SUNSCREENS
AND TWO INSECT
REPELLENTS.
FIRST THE ONE SHOULDERS
USED.
BANANA BOAT SPORT -
BURNED - AND BURNED - FOR
MORE NEARLY 15
SECONDS. NEXT WE TRIED A
VARIETY.
COPPERTONE SPORT ALSO
BURNED, BUT FOR ONLY TWO
SECONDS.
BRAND.
NEXT WE TRIED PRODUCTS
SPECIFICALLY MARKETED TO
KIDS
AND FAMILIES. C16 VIDEO
3:55 WENT RIGHT OUT
AND OFF
SMOOTHE AND DRY FAMILY
CARE INSECT REPELLENT.
C19 5:59 LETS GO WITH
THE OFF SMOOTHE *** DRY
FAMLY CARE C33
CLOSE UP
THE DOCTOR WAS SHOCKED,
AT HIS SUGGESTION WE
REPEATED THE TEST ON THIS
FOOTBALL.
SOMETHING MORE ABSORBENT.
MINUTES.
IN ITS RECALL NOTICE, THE
MAKERS OF BANANA BOAT
THE SPRAY VALVE DISPENSED
MORE THAN IS TYPICAL IN
AS A REESLUT IT TOOK
LONGER TO DRY.
AND OUR TEST PROVED THAT
ONCE ITS DRY THE PRODUCT
IS SAFE. BUT EVEN SO,
THE DOCTOR SEES THIS AS
AN EYE OPENER.
A WARNING MARY SHOULDERS
WILL MAKE SURE HER
NEIECES AND
NEPHEWS KNOW, BECAUSE SHE
CAN'T IMAGE WHAT IF
THIS...
23:23 CRYING I'M SORRY
MARY )
VOLUNTARILY RECALLED HALF
A
MILLION BOTTLES OF SPRAY
ON SUNSCREEN.
THEY DID SO JUST FOUR
DAYS AFTER WE CALLED TO
SHARE THE RESULTS
OF OUR EXPERIMENT. A
SPOKESPERSON ASSURED ME
SEVERAL TIMES THEY WOULD
RESPOND TO A NUMBER OF
QUESTIONS WE STILL HAVE,
INCLUDING HOW THEY
DETERMINED IT THE
SPRAY NOZZLE IS TO BLAME
AND HOW THEY INTENDED TO
FIX THE PROBLEM.
WE STILL HAVE NOT
RECEIVED THOSE ANSWERS.
STEPHANIE HARRIS TOYS.