Majority Of Sunscreens Tested Would Flunk Proposed FDA Safety Tests, Report Says
By Sandee LaMotte, CNN
May 15, 2019 at 9:49 am
Nearly two-thirds of all sunscreens evaluated by the Environmental Working Group would not pass safety tests proposed by the US Food and Drug Administration, the consumer advocacy group announced Wednesday.
The group released its analysis as part of its 2019 Guide to Sunscreens, a yearly report on sunscreen safety that the nonprofit began in 2006.
The group said it analyzed the ingredients and performance of more than 1,300 products with sun protection factor, or SPF; 750 of those are marketed as beach and sport sunscreens. The analysis involves only a fraction of the sunscreen products sold in the United States today, which the FDA estimates to number over 12,000.
The report said that over 60% of the products tested did not offer adequate sun protection or contained potentially harmful chemicals. ...
The FDA says there is no good data showing that sunscreens can protect past a level of 60+ SPF, and therefore labeling sunscreen at levels higher than 60+ could be misleading by providing a false sense of sun protection. ...
Read the rest at WBZA "consumer advocacy group," eh? Reminds me of two guys and a fax machine a/k/a Science in the Public Interest, or whatever that busybody group is called. In any event, a perusal of their
website leads me to believe their "research" is anything but objective. So take it with a grain of salt.