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Several active ingredients of sunscreen can be detected at high concentrations in the blood after just one day of frequent use, according to the results of a small clinical trial by the US Food and Drug Administration published yesterday (May 6) in JAMA. The results do not indicate that the ingredients cause any harm, say researchers, but do provide justification for further investigation of their potential toxicities.
“It’s not news that things that you put on your skin are absorbed into the body,” Scott Faber, senior vice president for government affairs at the health advocacy organization the Environmental Working Group, tells CNN. Faber, who was not involved in the work, adds that “this study is the FDA’s [Food and Drug Administration’s] way of showing sunscreen manufacturers they need to do the studies to see if chemical absorption poses health risks.”
To conduct the study, the researchers ...
