FDA’s Greenlight of Old Chemical Offers Chance To Restore Faith in Sunscreen

By: Michael Scaturro

Outlets: KFF Health News

Published: June 10, 2026

Words: 1,251

Last Updated: 1 day, 13 hours ago

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Officials, environmental health advocates, and skin care industry groups are expressing hope that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a sunscreen ingredient on June 9 — after consideration for two decades, and global use for nearly as long — will help restore Americans’ wavering faith in sunscreen.

“Bemotrizinol has been used safely in Europe for decades,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in the announcement about the approval. …

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