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Patagonia voluntary recall of capilene cool daily and tropic comfort products

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John S. BPL Member
PostedAug 8, 2021 at 2:04 pm

https://www.patagonia.com/voluntary-recall-of-capilene-cool-daily-and-tropic-comfort-upf-products/

Some of Our Capilene® Cool Daily and Tropic Comfort Styles Missed the Mark on 50+ UPF.
Here’s What You Need to Know.
We recently discovered that some products in two of our sun protection lines—Capilene® Cool Daily and Tropic Comfort—do not meet the 50+ UPF (Ultraviolet Protection Factor) rating we claimed for them. If you own one of these products, please know: They still offer solid UV protection. It’s just not as much as advertised.

Our tests confirm a range of 17–45 UPF instead of 50+, averaging 34 UPF. The good news is that even at 17 UPF, the products block 92% of the sun’s ultraviolet rays. The bad news is that we didn’t deliver on our goal to offer you the highest level of sun protection. We’ve pulled our existing inventory and halted distribution of the affected styles until we can fix the problem.

John S. BPL Member
PostedAug 8, 2021 at 2:13 pm

My apologies if this has been mentioned. A forum search didn’t find it for me but it seemed to show up on Ryan’s product pages on the search. Seems the recall came out around July 1.

Matthew / BPL Moderator
PostedAug 9, 2021 at 6:18 am

Wow. That is unfortunate. The TC Hoody is my favorite hiking shirt. Thanks for posting this, I’d not seen it elsewhere.

PostedAug 10, 2021 at 9:57 pm

Yeah, I got an email from Patagonia about the recall on July 1. I decided to keep the shirts instead of returning them.

Brad W BPL Member
PostedAug 11, 2021 at 11:29 am

Regardless of the rating-which I would garner if you pulled shirts off racks and tested would all come up short-I have been out 10+ hours of 100% exposed and never got even a slight tan in the Patagonia sun shirts. I have got the very slightest of some color doing the same in OR Echo Hoody, which is rated at 15 UPF

PostedAug 11, 2021 at 12:42 pm

And here I just bought a few spare Tropic Comfort II because they’re my favorite but being discontinued. But as said right above, I’m not too worried. I’ve worn three different TC hoodies so far, have a ton of field experience with them, and have never had sun issues. I burn easily, I would know…

Iago Vazquez BPL Member
PostedAug 12, 2021 at 12:47 am

I don’t burn easily, but I noticed that my OR Echo from a couple of years back did lead to minor burns from hiking around Death Valley in February 2020. Like Brad’s, it was marketed as 15 UPF

Brad W BPL Member
PostedAug 12, 2021 at 9:48 am

@Iago  The Echo is the thinnest/most breathable shirts I have owned. Love it but desert/full exposures for long times I will lean towards the Patagonia or Columbia PFG sun hoody shirts.

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