Sunscreen chemicals absorbed into body, study finds

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The chemicals in sunscreens help shield people from the sun’s rays, but they are also absorbed into the body at levels that raise some safety questions, a new study confirms. The study, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is a follow-up to a 2019 investigation. Both reached the same conclusion: The active ingredients in popular sunscreens can be absorbed into the blood at levels that exceed the FDA threshold where they can be presumed safe. However, both the agency and skin cancer experts were quick to stress that there is no proof that sunscreen ingredients cause any harm. …read more

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