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Is sunscreens are safe ?

While sunscreens are widely used as a first line of defence against skin cancer, concerns have been raised against them for their effects on endocrine, reproductive, developmental outcomes. A new study currently claims that active ingredients in emollient will find yourself in your blood, movement serious queries whether or not the cosmetic product has to be regulated like medicines before use? The four-group pilot study, led by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), involved 24 healthy volunteers, to determine whether or not the active ingredients — avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, and ecamsule — of four commercially available sunscreens (not named in the study) are absorbed into the body during maximum sunscreen use (four times per day for four days). All the four ingredients tested resulted in plasma concentrations extraordinary zero.5 nanograms per millilitre (ng/mL) — the threshold