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Sunscreen Safety, Perhaps Moot for Seattle

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Published July 4, 2008

The big names -- Coppertone, Banana Boat and Neutrogena -- don't do very well in the 2008 sunscreen rankings by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group. The group evaluated 1,000 products by reviewing nearly 400 peer-reviewed studies of the 17 sunscreen chemicals approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration. They rated 28 of the products as effective and safe, while recommending avoiding nearly 500. Click here to read this post.
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