Rowan Jacobsen
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So you can use kind of whatever you want with more minimal safety testing.
So the companies wanted to use this stuff in the US forever.
But the FDA said, Sure, just, you know, do the testing.
But they didn't want to do it was too expensive to do the testing.
They have to test it on animals.
They didn't want to get the blowback on that.
There are a bunch of reasons that they weren't willing to do it.
Also, I think they're a little scared what they might find.
So anyway, so our sunscreens have...
not been nearly as good as what's used elsewhere, both in terms of performance and maybe safety suspicions.
So that's going to change by the end of this year.
It's going to get better.
Not that have been proven.
There's like toxicologists are a little suspicious about some of them.
Like they've definitely been shown to to mess up coral.
Yeah, I mean, it's all of the above, I'm pretty sure.
But yeah, the sunscreen...