Leavasa Dr Anae NeruDr ANAE NERU LEAVASA (Labour—Takanini): Thank you Mr Speaker. I would like to commend the member Mr Todd Muller for bringing this bill to the House and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to take a call on the Sunscreen (Product Safety Standard) Bill.I've heard all the stories about sunscreen. I think I have a story in terms of a brown fulla. What's sunscreen got to do with a brown fulla? Well actually there is still a risk with getting skin cancers as a dark-skinned guy. I remember my time in Samoa walking around in the villages on the beach at Lalomanu or Falelatai and just putting it on my face. But then you know I got my shoulders exposed my back exposed and then later that evening I had a really sore shoulder and sore back and then the next following days peeling from the sunburn. It's really important not only for our fair-skinned populations but also for my Pacific Islanders as well. It's important because there's always a risk to get skin cancers. The three most common being BCCs basal cell carcinomas squamous cell carcinomas or melanomas as well. According to the bill—I'll just touch on a few points—the bill requires the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to recommend the making of regulations under section 29 of the Fair Trading Act 1986. Also it states that the product safety standard—again we've heard from other colleagues about making sure that it is up to New Zealand sunscreen standard NZS 2604:2012.We are supporting this like many of my colleagues have said to select committee. But the huge thing I want to touch on is the health-based approach. The member before me Dr Shane Reti being a primary care physician himself—we see a lot of skin conditions coming through the doors. Sometimes it's a bit late. We always say prevention's better than cure and sometimes we get a lot of our patients turning up and assessing their skin conditions we may have to do excision biopsies shave biopsies or refer on to dermatologists as well. I think this is a good time to acknowledge the work that is done by our primary care colleagues our dermatologists our specialists in the health system that do care for skin cancers in the system. But again it's all about prevention and this is what the bill aims to do.We've heard about the Consumer New Zealand testing with five out of 10 last year being false not reaching the SPF factor that they claim to have. Also when I look at SPF sun protection factors the SPF 50+ filters about 98 percent of UVB. I'll just touch on the UVA ultraviolet A radiation UVB and UVC. UVA is 95 percent of radiation that we do get that penetrates the atmosphere and has a low energy compared to UVB so it doesn't do as much damage compared to UVB and that's why we see in our sunscreen products that we try to target UVB. When we talk about broad spectrum it's trying to target both the UVA and UVB. UVC is pretty much absorbed by the atmosphere so we don't provide products such as that.That's why this bill is really important to make sure that what we're giving out whether it's been clinicians advising patients to put on SPF 30 or SPF 50+ is to make sure that we are protecting our whānau from these skin cancers as mentioned before. Again SPF 50+ filters 98 percent of UVB compared to the SPF 30 that filters up to 96 percent 97 percent as well.When I look at the risk with our patients whether it be older adults or fair skinned again like I said dark skinned populations as well those who have a family history it's really important that we get things right. It's really important that our manufacturers are providing products that do meet the standard and this bill aims to do that. This is all about protecting our whānau protecting those who are at risk of getting skin cancers and making sure that the product is doing what it's claiming to do. So that's why I commend this bill to the House. Thank you.