Her team found that it took only a few hours after the application of sunscreen for the photoprotective chemicals to infiltrate the bloodstream. Like other over-the-counter drugs, the FDA are trying to study sunscreens to make sure they don’t mess up people’s hormones, affect their reproductive systems, or cause cancer. Such safety testing has never been done on the active ingredients in sunscreen, because those chemicals were approved decades ago, before anyone suspected they could be absorbed into the body. But now, thy suspect that it could be a problem if they do seep into the bloodstream. for the sunscreen chemicals in this country,” said a 2013 paper ‘Safety and regulatory issues on sunscreen products in India’ by Sujit Kumar and Roop Narayan Gupta from the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Source: Indian Express May 08, 2019 05:26 UTC