FDA on Zinc Oxide: Classified as Safe and Effective or Use FDA on Every Chemica UV Filter: Insufficient Data to Classify as Safe for Use (which the industry has now had 20 years to provide - meaning it is unlikely they can produce it)
In an editorial accompanying the JAMA study, former FDA commissioner Robert Califf and the editor in chief of JAMA Dermatology, Kanade Shinkai, suggested that our cultural certainty about sunscreen is unearned. “Sunscreen users reasonably presume that companies that manufacture and sell sunscreens have conducted basic studies to support the safety and effectiveness of their products and that the medical profession would demand high-quality evidence,” they wrote, adding that despite decades of widespread use: “unscreens have not been subjected to standard drug safety testing.” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2733085
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