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Sunscreen Consortium Breakdown Puts Future Of UV Filters In Doubt

 
• By Lauren Nardella

Efforts to unite as an industry to provide the US Food and Drug Administration with data to fill safety gaps for “chemical” UV filters have fizzled as the agency insists on animal-test requirements. Without a collaborative effort to share resources and costs, the long-marketed sunscreen actives may not receive the investment needed to demonstrate GRASE, and the US market may decay further in comparison with the diversity of modern sun-protection options available to consumers abroad.

Questions abound following the dissolution of the PCPC Sunscreen Consortium • Source: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)

An industry collaborative comprising more than 20 sunscreen product manufacturers and ingredient suppliers is no longer working to fulfill data needs identified by the US Food and Drug Administration for seven sunscreen UV filters currently on the market due to concerns over agency requirements for animal-based tests to support safety.

What that means for the future of those sunscreen active drug ingredients and the sunscreen products category in the US...

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