FDA Approves New Sunscreen Ingredient (Bemotrizinol) Used in EU/Asia for Years

mhitza

Coincidentally (?) also discussed today "European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503940

Bender

I always use children's sunscreen. Seems to have simpler and better understood ingredients.

zugi

> The FDA has approved bemotrizinol (PARSOL Shield). This is the first new sunscreen ingredient approved in over 20 years, offering superior UVA and UVB protection... an advanced sunscreen filter that has long been used in Europe and Asia. The FDA statement makes this sound like something we all should be pleased with. Somehow this 19,000-person bureaucracy is popular on Hacker News, but I like to remind people that the FDA's primary job is to prevent Americans from buying medicines. A more accurate summary might be something like: > After many decades of successfully preventing Americans from buying the same safe and effective bemotrizinol sunscreen that the rest of world has had for years, today the FDA finally relented and stopped blocking Americans from buying it.