Nita Lowey (D-Rockland/Westchester) delivered a relevant message Friday morning while standing in 90-degree weather at Rockland Lake State Park—sunscreen products must be regulated and properly labeled, a task the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently lapsed on, she said.
"Every year, I and millions of Americans find [sunscreen] labels more and more confusing," she said.
"I am deeply concerned for the safety of American families as we move into the peak of summer," Lowey added. "With the FDA delay in implementing the requirement for sunscreen manufactures to disclose the protections offered by products from UVB and UVA rays, consumers are forced to spend another summer questioning their sunscreen labels."
Lowey was joined by Chuck Bell, programs director of the Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports.
"Consumers are being misled by the SPF ratings that are used today, and they need better information now," Bell said.
Bell noted some sunscreens with high SPF may not actually protect people against the sun's rays.
Patch wants to know: are you confused and/or misled by sunscreen labels?
I am pleased and impressed by the multiple issues that Nita Lowey manages to advocate for us. Not only is the labeling inaccurate, but most tubes and bottles do not have an expiration date. Nita will have my vote once again!!
For years the sun-screen lobbyists have been fighting clear labeling and expiration dates on their products, to the point where it is a determent to our nation's health, with skin cancer rates increasing 50% in the last ten years. Lowey should be commended for her work in defending us against corporate dishonesty and greed, but instead she gets mocked for legislation that would reduce cancer deaths.
http://www.naturalnews.com/032996_sunscreen_cancer_risk.html If you think the government is looking out for you, think again
If not the government, who?...... if you think that corporations are looking out for you,think again.
You say the government is together with the corporations and then condemn Lowey for showing that she is not. I can only assume that you are happy that corporations have hijacked our country and the American people are being forgotten.
Do they make a sunscreen that protects us from politicians? "Poli-screen"? I'm buying!