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PETA Challenges FDA 'Insistence' On Animal Testing For Sunscreen Products

 
• By Eileen Francis

Animal advocacy group PETA claims documents recently made public on listening sessions between the US Food and Drug Administration and sunscreen manufacturers show FDA is ‘checking a box by pushing decades-old animal tests rather than using modern science’ to assess the safety of sunscreens, despite the agency’s claims that it is encouraging non-animal methods.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) says the US Food and Drug Administration in closed-door meetings with sunscreen manufacturers is insisting on animal testing to keep sunscreen products on the market, while sending a different message publicly.

“Letters and meeting notes between sunscreen manufacturers and the FDA demonstrate that, in stark contrast to the agency’s frequent public claims that it supports modern test methods relevant to human health, it repeatedly refused to consider the use of non-animal

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