Michael Scaturro

And I think that in this case, they might be overcorrecting.

I think the sunscreen controversy kind of started in 2019, around then, because the FDA did tests on several sunscreen ingredients that have been sold for a while, have been considered to be safe to be in sunscreens.

But they basically found that in some...

certain chemicals were appearing in very, very small amounts in the human bloodstream.

And I think they reclassified these drugs as, and it's very complicated, not grasse, so it's like not generally recognized as safe and effective for use in sunscreens.

So it's a really complicated way of saying that they needed more data to know whether these chemicals were safe.

They were not necessarily saying...

they're not safe they were just saying we would like more data because we don't really know and it um and it made people really wonder like well can they trust these things so there were there were about 12 chemicals that were that were in this that were moved into this not cross a so not considered not generally recognized as safe and effective for use in sunscreens category but

The industry has begun to, has over the last few years, phased out those chemicals, but essentially four are still widely used in sunscreen.

So it's just to say it's very complicated.

The FDA, they've let these chemicals exist in a kind of gray area because they said, again, they're not generally recognized as safe and effective for use in sunscreens.

but you can still use them.

And that's very confusing.

Right, and I'll say this.

If you look at this, I'm in Germany right now, and I purchased this sunscreen, and on the front of the packaging of this sunscreen, it says this is free of microplastic, it's free of octinosate,

It doesn't have homosalate because it's no longer used in Europe.

So the European companies are starting to market the fact that they no longer use some of these chemicals that in the U.S.

are considered not grassy.

But I think everyone kind of agrees that BEMT, the new chemical, is very safe.

It's the most vetted sunscreen ingredient.