Sunscreen TFM
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA hopes to publish an amendment to the OTC sunscreen tentative final monograph including the agency's proposals regarding accepted UVA sunscreen ingredients, claims for UVA sunscreens and testing procedures "later this year or early next year," Jeanne Rippere, a microbiologist with FDA's Office of OTC Drug Evaluation states at a session on sunscreens at the HBA Global Expo June 6-9 in New York City. Rippere says she does not believe the sunscreen final monograph will be completed until at least 1997