Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used in Europe and other parts of the world.
The Food and Drug Administration says the ingredient, bemotrizinol, met the agency’s standards for protecting from dangerous ultraviolet rays while causing little irritation or absorption into the skin. The ingredient is safe for adults and children 6 months and older, the agency stated in a release.
Bemotrizinol will initially be sold in the U.S. by the Dutch manufacturer DSM Nutritional Products under the brand name Parsol Shield, which is expected to launch later in the year. After an 18-month exclusivity period, the ingredient will be available for use by other manufacturers.
I didn’t say they were.
Regardless of how you feel about the FDA, this is a good step in the right direction. Our sunscreen options aren’t very good comparatively and this will help improve skin protection.
No one is forcing you to use this type of sunscreen.
I am saying we should get some independent analysis of this before accepting it’s safe because governments said it was. But what do I know.
No, you are pushing that this particular ingredient is an endocrine disruptor and that even though it’s been in use for decades, because the FDA approved it, no one should trust it.
I said I want a reliable source before I would concede it’s safe.
Like a child sitting around demanding others do your work for you.
You are demanding others accede to your opinions with only government data to back you up.
I don’t use the stupid sunscreen, so it’s not my work, if anything, you are the one working here, to hype a corporate interest?
I am specifically pushing back against your assertion that this ingredient is an endocrine disruptor and should be avoided.
I have no vested interest in anything besides better access to health aids and cancer reduction.
I just don’t like pseudo-science conspiracy theories being pushed for no apparent reason and with no apparent evidence.
You mischaracterized what I said, and as such, go talk to someone else, you aren’t in good faith, and I reject you.
I have eyes.