{"id":776296,"date":"2026-07-21T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776296\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:13:08","slug":"why-sunscreen-just-got-more-effective-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776296\/","title":{"rendered":"Why sunscreen just got more effective in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Share this <br \/>Article<\/p>\n<p>You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license.<\/p>\n<p>Think summer and the word \u201cbemotrizinol\u201d doesn\u2019t spring to mind, but relaxing on the beach or poolside this season just got potentially safer because of that chemical filter.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the sunscreen ingredient, long popular in Europe and Asia, for use in the US. Bemotrizinol blocks ultraviolet (UV) A rays\u2014which can further age or wrinkle skin\u2014as well as sunburn-causing ultraviolet B rays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/faculty\/michael-kwa-md\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Kwa<\/a> is a Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine assistant professor of dermatology who cowrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36442641\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2022 paper<\/a> that found many new sunscreen ingredients were available in Europe, but not yet in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Kwa explains why the FDA\u2019s blessing bolsters public safety:<\/p>\n<p>This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2026\/us-sunscreens-more-effective-bu-dermatologist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Think summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,5195,5972,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-776296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-skin","tag-sunscreen","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}