"European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503940
Bemotrizinol is itself a very large molecule with near-zero skin absorption (like ZnO), so if you are thinking you will use this to avoid the "it doesn't rub in" aspect of mineral sunscreen, you are going to be disappointed.
The FDA statement makes this sound like something we all should be pleased with. Somehow this 19,000-person bureaucracy is popular on Hacker News, but I like to remind people that the FDA's primary job is to prevent Americans from buying medicines.
A more accurate summary might be something like:
> After many decades of successfully preventing Americans from buying the same safe and effective bemotrizinol sunscreen that the rest of world has had for years, today the FDA finally relented and stopped blocking Americans from buying it.
