Sunscreen TEA Advocates Want Help Scaling FDA’s ‘High Bar’ For OTC Monographs

FDA explains its “high bar” for GRASE for sunscreen TEAs during a public meeting on implementation of the Sunscreen Innovation Act. Industry and advocacy groups express concern that impediments to meeting OTC monograph safety standards will squelch sunscreen ingredient innovation.

FDA officials explain the agency’s “high bar” for adding ingredients to OTC monographs and the “heavy lift” that work requires, attempting to assuage the frustrations of proponents of making additional sunscreen ingredients available.

Representatives from the sunscreen industry and consumer advocacy groups and FDA officials attempted to find common ground during a Feb. 4 meeting on Implementation of the Sunscreen Innovation Act, with...

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