Why the Sunscreen Innovation Act is important: This is an important step to getting better suncreens in the US— the FDA hasn’t approved a new sunscreen ingredient since 1999, even some in widespread use for over a decade in other countries! This new legislation requires the FDA to clear out its backlog of sunscreen ingredients in the next 12 months, and respond yea or nay to any new sunscreen ingredient approval requests in 18 months. — improved sunscreens may be available as soon as summer of 2015.
