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Dear Editor, I recently read the article "The banned sunscreen ingredients and their impact on human health: a systematic review" and wanted to share my concerns with this article.1 To understand why oxybenzone and octinoxate "are banned" in Hawaii, Key West, the Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Aruba, and Bonaire and is a concern in several other island nations around the world, one has to look at more than just the occurrence of statistical significance from 29 human studies obtained from a literature search using only PubMed data published between January 1, 1979, and February 22, 2019; one has to look at the overall impact of these substances globally. The FDA did not ban benzophenone because publications were found demonstrating human carcinogenicity but rather because the National Toxicology Program (NTP) tested it and found it to be carcinogenic in animals. [Extracted from the article] |
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