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PCPC, CHPA Urge 'Modern' Risk Assessments For Sunscreen Ingredients

 
• By Eileen Francis

FDA should revise its draft guidance on OTC sunscreen GRASE data to reflect modern toxicological risk assessment, say the Personal Care Products Council and Consumer Healthcare Products Association in a joint comment. The groups ask the agency to meet to discuss current approaches.

Industry trade groups ask FDA to “significantly revise” its draft guidance on safety and effectiveness data needed for OTC sunscreen ingredients and produce a “modern version based on advances in toxicological risk assessment.”

“We believe the draft guidance proposes a framework that is not reflective of the current state-of-art in ingredient safety assessment,” say the Personal Care Products Council and Consumer Healthcare Products Association in Feb. 22

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