FDA Effects on Sunscreens: Research paper made in WRT 102 at SBU
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) outdated sunscreen regulation exposes Americans to outdated protection despite the fact that skin cancer, the most common cancer in the nation, affects millions of people annually. The FDA is a regulatory agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Like its name, it is tasked with regulating all food, drugs, and cosmetics in the US in order to protect public health. Lately, the FDA has been under heavy criticism on nationwide screens. The face of this campaign against the FDA is Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the present U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. He had gone on national television repeatedly criticizing the FDA for permitting products on US shelves that have been hurting Americans for the past couple of years. Now that he has become the man in charge of this department, it has become ever more important to look at the FDA’s decisions. The FDA’s ...
