The Senate has passed the Sunscreen Innovation Act
through a unanimous consent agreement. The bill, which passed the
House of Representatives in late July 2014, aims to streamline how
new ingredients for over-the-counter sunscreen products are
approved. The sunscreen bill now returns to the House of
Representatives for further action. Several over-the-counter
sunscreen ingredients have languished in the current FDA approval
process for 12 years, with the last ingredient being approved in
the 1990s. Concerns that consumers in the U.S. were not able to
take advantage of new sunscreen technologies prompted Congress to
investigate and address the backlog.
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