Alex Tabarrok reports today:
Excellent piece in the Washington Post on the FDA and sunscreen:
…American beachgoers will have to make do with sunscreens that dermatologists and cancer-research groups say are less effective and have changed little over the past decade.
That’s because applications for the newer sunscreen ingredients have languished for years in the bureaucracy of the Food and Drug Administration, which must approve the products before they reach consumers.
…The agency has not expanded its list of approved sunscreen ingredients since 1999. Eight ingredient applications are pending, some dating to 2003. Many of the ingredients are designed to provide broader protection from certain types of UV rays and were approved years ago in Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere.
If you want to understand how dysfunctional regulation has become ponder this sentence:
“This is a very intractable problem. I think, if possible, we are more frustrated than the manufacturers and you all are about this situation,”
Who said it? Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research! Or how about this:
Eleven months ago, in a hearing on Capitol Hill, FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg told lawmakers that sorting out the sunscreen issue was “one of the highest priorities.”
If this is high priority what happens to all the “low priority” drugs and medical devices?
The whole piece in the Washington Post is very good, read it all. I first wrote about this issue last year.
Or in other words, we’re doomed. And what of the FCC? And the trade commission? And …
Don’t forget: You should have seen how bad it was before we regulated it!
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